 Plastic
Electronics Enclosures
The Finest Custom Plastic Enclosures Available… and
No Tooling or Molds Required!
Now you have a solution for your prototyping and short-run needs.
Now you can better service your customers with a technology designed
expressly for rapid and frequent changes during product development.
It’s Buckeye Shapeform’s Plastic Enclosure technology.
How often do you find yourself refining products mid-stage…perhaps
changing internal components and configurations to meet customers'
new demands and specifications? Perhaps you’ve got a program
that needs an attractive, clean design for a product with a small
run. Working through these situations with molds and traditional
tooling is time-intensive and costly.
Instead, Buckeye’s Plastic Enclosure Technology solves these
issues by providing you an integrated manufacturing process that
produces quality plastic cases, built to your unique specifications.
Our Buckeye Plastic Enclosure technology boxes have the finish,
durability, and ready-for-market appearance of injected molded parts,
but give you and your customers much more flexibility in the real-world,
stop-and-go-and-change-it-again environment of design, development
and manufacturing.
Buckeye’s Plastic Enclosure technology manufacturing process
is the perfect alternative to injection molding, thermoforming,
vacuum forming and pressure forming.
Plastic Enclosure Technology
Advanced technology built in from the very start –
No tooling or molds required!
Applying the Best Science
Buckeye Plastic Enclosure Technology represents the successful transfer
of the very best sheet metal cutting, bending and forming techniques
to an extruded plastic sheet. Our highly efficient process begins
with an advanced design that integrates an orderly progression of
assembly, involving the installation of precision snaps, interlocks
and joints.
Custom Configurations
Working with our engineers, you’ll be able to take advantage
of this unique process, which utilizes leading CAM software, custom
3-axis CNC routers, automated heat bending machines to produce configurations
of virtually any kind.
Here are some examples of our customer’s custom configurations:
Industrial processing equipment
Medical and dental equipment
Automated PCB and process equipment
Enclosures that would typically be structural foam (if injection
molds were more affordable)
Electronic and computing applications (flat-screen LCD enclosures
and other technology)
Design Elements
Buckeye Shapeform’s Plastic Enclosures incorporate specially
designed joints, edges, snaps and interlocks. These elements are
programmed into our proprietary software, eliminating the need to
“repeat the wheel” for each product design. Features
we can build into your design include:
Tongue and groove joints
Small and large radius bends
Edge chambers, reveals, and radii
Snap joints and catches
Hinges and interlocks
Sliding panels
Label recesses
Material Thickness and Tolerances
Here are our specifications for Plastic Enclosure material
thickness:
ABS – general purpose and fire retardant, all thicknesses:
+/- 10%
High Impace Polystyrene (HIPS): 3mm, 6mm, and 10mm
Polycarbonate & Acrylic: 0.060 inches and above
Kydex (PVC/Acrylic blend, FR94-V0): 0.125” thickness and
above
Here are our Plastic Enclosure tolerances:
Machining tolerances: +/- 0.010”
Angular tolerances: +/- .05 degrees
 
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