When you’re developing a new extruded plastic product, managing several different vendors will quickly become a huge headache. Typically, you might have one for tooling, another for extrusions, a third for secondary fabrication, maybe even a fourth for final assembly…
Managing your products starts to become a full-time job in itself. Not to mention you introduce unnecessary variables at every handoff, potential quality issues or cost increases. Then when an issue or delay does crop up, you have vendors pointing the finger at each other with no true accountability.
That’s the kind of mess we help our customers avoid. It’s why Vidon Plastics has built our operation around a simple philosophy: handle everything under one roof, from initial concept all the way to finished, ready-to-ship product.
Whether you’re walking in with a napkin sketch, a fully engineered drawing, or transferring your existing extrusion line to a new manufacturer, we can meet you where you are.
What “Full-Service Extrusion Manufacturing” Means at Vidon
Full-service means we’re involved at every stage as needed, whether that relationship begins with rapid prototyping or we’re jumping right into a high-volume run. At Vidon, that looks like:
- Design assistance
- Optimized material selection
- Custom die and tooling development
- Prototyping runs
- Full production extrusion
All of those core capabilities are backed up by our comprehensive set of secondary operations and fabrication solutions. That’s how we transform raw extruded shapes into finished components of virtually all shapes, sizes, and levels of complexity.
Virtually All Extrusion Profile Types and Materials
Our extrusion capabilities cover a wide range of profile types, including solid shapes, hollow profiles, tubing, and co-extrusions. Likewise, we work across a full spectrum of thermoplastic materials: rigid and flexible PVC, ABS, polyethylene, polypropylene, TPE, and more.
The right material depends on your application’s specific demands: chemical resistance, UV stability, operating temperature, flexibility, or regulatory requirements. Our team gets involved early to make sure material selection supports long-term performance, not just short-term convenience.
Secondary Operations That Streamline Your Project
Extrusion is only part of the equation. Once a profile comes off the line it needs to be processed: cut, punched, drilled, routed, and/or packaged. That’s where our secondary operations come into play, drastically simplifying your vendor network and the logistics that go with it.
We keep these processes in-house, so we eliminate risky handoffs, protect tolerances, and compress lead times. You’re not shipping raw extrusions to a separate fabricator and hoping the specs hold up in transit. Everything is managed by the same team, on the same floor, under the same quality standards.
- Secondary capabilities we routinely perform include:
- Precision cutting and sawing to exact lengths
- Punching and drilling for fastener or assembly features
- Routing and milling for custom profile modifications
- Co-extrusion for multi-material or multi-durometer builds
- Custom packaging and kitting for downstream assembly
Carrying Your Project from Prototype to Full Production
Working with a full-service extruder guarantees you get both expertise and flexibility across project phases. Early-stage work demands fast tooling turnaround and short prototype runs so you can validate the design quickly. Production-stage work demands consistent quality, reliable lead times, and the ability to scale volume.
We handle both. Our in-house tooling capabilities let us develop and refine dies without the delays that come from outsourcing to a third-party tool shop. Once your design is locked in, we can scale production efficiently while holding the same quality controls from the first run to the thousandth.
Michigan’s Leading Plastic Extrusion Manufacturer Since 1987
With Vidon, you get a single point of contact and accountability who understands the full picture of your project, from raw material to final packaging.
You get a single source of quality and consistency that you can trust within your long-term supply chain.
Quality extruded products, dependable American manufacturing, and responsive customer support since 1987.