Saving Money

Crescent Plastics understands that, besides the best quality, our clients are looking for a way to save money on production of their product. At Crescent Plastics, we have achieved great success in significantly reducing costs for our clients. Just see for yourself.


Innovative

Innovation is what we do best. Just see how our creative thinking was able to help this client.

The Situation…
The client was looking for a way to eliminate a costly and environmentally unfriendly painting operation during the assembly of a caption holder. Their process involved the tedious task of painting the bottom of the caption extrusion a tan color to match its mating part — a display unit for the client’s product.

And the Solution…
Crescent’s innovative team of engineers formed a collaboration with the client’s team to find the most cost-effective solution to their problem. We decided to utilize a process known as co-extrusion, bringing together two different materials to achieve the client’s desired color result. We co-extruded a thin layer of different colored thermoplastics on top of the existing plastic extrusion. Through co-layering the thermoplastics, we were able to give the product the colored leg that matched the existing part. Our innovative solution eliminated the hazardous painting operation for the client, while offering huge savings of both time and money.

Innovation is an everyday part of working with the Crescent Plastics team — it’s what sets us apart from the competition. We are known for our ability to find inventive and effective solutions to your toughest challenges — solutions that give you exactly what you want — time and time again.

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Resilient

Crescent Plastics’ resiliency to the toughest plastic extrusion challenges spelled big savings for this client.

The Situation…
We approached our client, an appliance manufacturer, with a new and significantly cost-reducing approach to extruding a part — a trim that mates with an injection molded refrigerator crisper pan — that was being injection molded at another facility.

And the Solution…
The client’s original crisper pan was being imbedded with aluminum to add strength to the product, which also required the use of protective tape to cover the aluminum. We found that utilizing a lower cost ABS could provide the same rigidity without the use of costly aluminum, which meant the protective tape would also no longer be necessary. What’s more, we found that less of the new material was needed — the lower cost ABS could function just as well as the former material in thinner sections — and these thinner sections could be extruded at a much faster rate. All of these factors combined: the elimination of the aluminum and protective tape, the use of less, lower cost ABS and the increased rate of extrusion, allowed us to reduce the customer’s cost — by half — without compromising the integrity of their product. This client was able to experience firsthand our unparalleled expertise in analyzing parts for cost reductions.

There is no greater testimony to our resiliency in operations than our five decades in the plastics extrusion business. We are experts at optimizing custom extrusion production and performance, giving customers more for their money. And that’s just what we do at Crescent — every day.

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Functional
This client knows Crescent Plastics has just what it takes to keep them functioning at their best.

The Situation…
The client wanted to optimize the performance of a display unit for their products, while eliminating a gluing operation in the assembly process, which cost additional time, money and was of particular concern to the environment.

And the Solution…
We listened to the client’s challenges with their existing product and offered solutions to help achieve their design goals. The original display unit was created as a single piece — which meant if any piece should break, the entire unit had to be replaced. Crescent worked alongside the client to come up with a new design, which included interlocking parts that could be put together easily. A vac-form piece was constructed into which clear acrylic holding pieces would snap. The snapping features were created on-line using a series of routers that indexed the tabs onto the clear acrylic part. This interlocking function eliminated the need for gluing the display pieces together during assembly, saving the client time, money and eliminating any potential hazards to the environment. The new design also allowed broken parts to be replaced quickly and easily, offering significant savings on in-house repair of the display unit.

Our team achieved a three-dimensional aspect on a two-dimensional part, allowing optimal performance for the client’s need — while providing the client with huge savings on the in-house assembly of mating parts. We at Crescent Plastics are proud of our ability to function with clients to offer design suggestions that best fit their needs.

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