Category: Custom Molding

  • What is Special Material Handling?

    Transcription:  One of the target markets for DeKalb Molded Plastics is specialty material handling. We do pallets. We do containers. But really we do things that are specific to an application. It may be a metal product. It may be a medical product, but it has to be handled and protected really well and that’s […]

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  • Can Dekalb create my custom molding product?

    We basically stay within the range of high density polyethylene to engineering structural plastics. If we go into the high temperature stuff where you’re going to need a oil heater, something beyond that 700-800 degree melt range, really, if the tool needs to be above the boiling temperature of water, and then we don’t play in that […]

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  • What Does It Mean to be a Custom Plastics Molder?

    We do not design custom plastic molding from scratch.  We are a custom molder.  DeKalb Molded Plastics takes designs that other people have to create the product.  Sometimes that has been a napkin that may even have had a beer or coffee stain on that napkin and start to work with that so we can […]

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  • What is Custom Foam Molding?

    There are many misconceptions about what custom foam molding means and the advantages to using it.  Listen to DeKalb Molded Plastics as they describe what it means to have custom foam molded plastics and why someone might want a foam molded part.

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  • Benefits of Converting Metal, Concrete and Wood to Plastic

    The conversion of metal, concrete and wood components to plastic have delivered significant, and in many cases unmatched cost savings.

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  • Surviving the Recession

    DeKALB Molded Plastics celebrated their 30th Anniversary of business in the Structural Plastics industry in 2009. Much has changed over those 30 years — from the structural foam products they first produced to the techniques they now employ to run the business. From products such as the first swimming pool panel, to the computer housings, […]

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