Plastic Sheets

Plastics Machining and Processing convert plastic semi-finished products into parts and complete finished products to customer specification. ERIKS performs machining and non-machining operations for small and large series in its own processing centre.What are Plastics Machining and Processing?Machining removes material by sawing, drilling, turning or milling, using conventional or CNC equipment. Non-machining options include bending, cold forming, thermoforming, welding and bonding. ERIKS can also polish parts, clean them in a cleanroom, assemble them and install combined products.Applications and industriesPlastics processing supports custom parts, protective covers, optical plastic parts and assembled products. Mould-based production is considered as quantities increase and includes injection moulding, two-component combinations, rotational moulding, vacuum forming and blow moulding.How to select Plastics Machining and ProcessingFirst define the plastic material, part geometry and required tolerances. Then specify series size, surface quality and processing operations. Choose machining for sawn, drilled, turned or milled parts; select forming, welding, bonding, polishing, assembly or mould production where the product specification requires it.Key attributesKey attributes are material, part dimensions, tolerances, series size, CNC or conventional machining, forming method, joining technique, surface finish and any cleanroom cleaning.
Frequently asked questionsWhich plastics machining operations does ERIKS perform?ERIKS performs sawing, drilling, turning and milling on machines intended for plastics. Milling can be conventional or CNC on three-, four- and five-axis equipment. Turning uses equipment including CNC machines and automatic lathes with automatic material feed.Which non-machining plastics processes are available?ERIKS can bend, cold-form, thermoform, weld and bond plastics. Other options include machine polishing or flame polishing, cleanroom cleaning and the assembly and installation of combined products.