Lincoln Plastics is a full service plastic profile extrusion molder, offering a wide array of secondary operations for round profiles, and more. Keeping secondary operations in-house allows us to provide our customers with high quality plastic products at a fair price. We pride ourselves on putting a personal touch on all of our projects, and providing our customers with a high quality finished product.

If you want to make a product function properly, secondary operations are necessary. Improper planning of secondary operations can increase production costs and time. If secondary operations aren’t considered up-front, your processes will suffer and expectations could be missed.

Understanding that secondary processes are necessary and planning for them from the outset can have a positive impact. When this is done, products can be manufactured, assembled, and packaged in a continuous flow with minimal or no disruption, which can help lower costs and increase efficiency. Without secondary operations, a product may never work; it would just sit as a pile of components. Secondary operations make the functionality of the product possible.

Underestimating the need for secondary operations can end up costing you time and money. Take in-process testing as an example. Although it doesn’t sound like it, in-process testing is considered a secondary operation. If in-process testing isn’t accounted for when designing the device and its processes, the result could be higher piece costs and increased production time. If an inject moulded part is fit tested after volume production, it will be more expensive and time consuming to fix than it would have had it been tested and found earlier in the manufacturing process at prototype stage.

Learn more about our sister companies, HTI Plastics and Apex Plastics.