With over thirty four years of plastic CNC lathe experience, EPP is the first-choice for custom plastic CNC lathe parts.
EPP’s CNC Milling experts deliver quality machined plastic parts fast and to your specifications.
EPP Corporation is an expert in plastic screw machining. Quantities as large as 150,000 pieces can be produced cost-effectively and to your schedule.
With competitive pricing on quantities ranging from 100 pieces to 10,000 pieces and lead times as short as 3 weeks, why take the risk of going overseas?
New product development teams nationwide are frustrated with corporate cost cutting and lack of capital for their R&D plans. Valuable projects are put on hold because R&D budgets cannot cover the expensive introductory costs of new tooling and initial manufacturing of new designs. In today’s economic environment, corporate cost cutting is needed to help companies [...]
Selection of a truly qualified vendor is extremely important in today’s business environment. The time it takes to ask the right questions will pay big dividends – helping you obtain high quality machined plastic parts. And even though the rules for service and quality seem to be continually evolving, getting the best part at the [...]
Quality, of course, is directly related to price. Make sure the vendors you interview can provide the highest quality part at the lowest price. Plastic machining vendors can keep errors to a minimum if they are highly process driven, are ISO Certified, use documented SPC procedures, and own the proper inspection equipment such as CMM [...]
Ask about the type of equipment the potential vendor uses. The well-equipped plastic machining vendor will look pretty much like a metal machining shop, but the bona fide specialist will have equipment that has been adjusted or re-built expressly for machining plastic material. The right equipment will machine plastic using the correct speeds, feeds and [...]
Just as a metal machine shop is unlikely to have the material knowledge you need, neither are they going to be able to purchase plastics in large enough quantities to provide you with the best price.
Likewise, find out if the plastic machining vendor candidates you are considering can purchase materials directly from material manufacturer. If [...]
Quiz potential vendors on their knowledge of various materials and applications. Ask them to share the information they have from their material manufacturers. Do they have any property charts or plastic material handbooks to give you? Specialists in plastic machining should have a wealth of up-to-date information.
Material knowledge is a critical area. Good plastic machining [...]
