Custom Manufacturing Solutions

As North America’s leading provider of custom plastic solutions, Pexco offers a unique combination of advanced extrusion and injection molding capabilities. With multiple manufacturing facilities across the U.S. and decades of experience, we specialize in engineering complex, tight-tolerance components from both thermoplastic and thermoset materials. Our value-added services—including design support, CNC machining, secondary operations, and assembly—enable us to deliver complete solutions, not just parts. Pexco is your trusted partner in innovation, turning complex ideas into precise, high-performance plastic components.

Click each section to learn how Pexco leverages advanced technologies and deep materials expertise to deliver high-precision, performance-driven molded components—tailored to your most complex applications.

Precision Injection Molding

Injection molding is the ideal manufacturing process for producing high-precision plastic components with complex geometries, thin walls, and tight tolerances—at scale. At Pexco, we specialize in molding ultra and high-performance thermoplastics using a unique combination of advanced mold flow analysis, proprietary tooling systems, and deep material expertise. This allows us to eliminate or significantly reduce secondary operations, improving part quality and reducing total cost. Whether you’re developing a part that pushes design limits or requires demanding thermal, chemical, or structural performance, we bring the technical capability to make it moldable—and manufacturable.

Net Shape Molding

Net shape molding is the precision manufacturing process of producing highly complex parts with near-final geometry, minimizing or eliminating the need for secondary machining. At Pexco, we integrate advanced solid modeling (SolidWorks, STEP, Parasolid, IGES), mold flow analysis, and finite element analysis with our proprietary true form sizing technology. By combining 3D CT scanning—capturing over 1.2 million internal and external dimensional data points—with custom CAD/CAM-driven tool modification, we deliver exceptionally tight tolerances and best-in-class part fidelity. This process is ideal for mission-critical components like seals and valve bodies, where precision down to ±0.0003″ and smooth surface finishes are essential. The result is high-performance, net-shape molded parts that reduce cost, improve throughput, and meet the most demanding dimensional specifications.

Insert Molding

Insert molding allows the integration of metal, ceramic, or other pre-formed components directly into the injection molding process, creating a single, unified part. At Pexco, we have pushed the boundaries of insert molding with proprietary tooling, advanced fixturing, and precision robotic placement systems that enable consistent overmolding of delicate or complex inserts. Whether manually loaded or fully automated, our process ensures the polymer flows securely around even the most challenging features. We work extensively with both filled (graphite, glass, carbon fiber) and unfilled high-performance thermoplastics, delivering enhanced part strength, reduced assembly time, and superior bond integrity. Insert molding  provides for greater design flexibility, enabling customers to build next-generation components with fewer steps and lower cost.

Direct Gating

Injection Molding complex components from ultra- and high-performance plastics—like fluoropolymers and PEEK—can be cost-prohibitive using conventional methods. Pexco solves this challenge with our direct-gated, multi-cavity tooling technology, designed to reduce material waste, cut per-part costs, and make advanced materials more accessible.

Our proprietary direct gating process injects polymer directly into each part cavity, eliminating traditional runners. This is especially critical when working with shear-sensitive and costly materials like FEP, PFA, PVDF, and PEEK, where minimizing waste and degradation is essential.

Compression Molding

Compression molding is ideal for producing strong, high-integrity parts from thermoset, high-performance materials, especially when tolerances structural integrity are critical. At Pexco, we use precision-matched metal tools, heat, and pressure to mold advanced resins into complex forms without the need for injection for further finishing. This process is particularly well-suited for low- to medium-volume production, large or thick-walled parts, and components with challenging material properties. Our expertise in compression molding extends to materials such as phenolics, epoxies, polyesters, and high-temp thermosets, enabling us to meet tight dimensional tolerances and deliver reliable mechanical performance across demanding applications.

A Leader in Engineered Plastic Component Manufacturing

Pexco delivers end-to-end engineered plastic component manufacturing solutions—combining advanced processing capabilities, deep materials expertise, and certified quality systems—designed to support your product from concept to completion.

Range of Capabilities

From custom molding to precision extrusion, Pexco offers a full spectrum of engineered plastic component manufacturing solutions. Our capabilities include advanced molding, CNC machining, secondary operations like drilling and welding, and full assembly support. We also excel at producing complex thermoplastic extrusions—such as co- and tri-, multi-material, and intricate open or closed profiles.

Material Expertise

Pexco brings deep expertise across a wide spectrum of plastic materials—including thermoplastics, thermosets, fluoropolymers, and elastomers. From commodity-grade resins to engineered and high-performance polymers, we help customers select and specify the right material to meet their requirements.

Specialty Resources and Assembly

Our sites offer secondary operations and CNC capabilities in addition to other essentials like sub-assembly and packaging, graphics, pad printing, and more.

Multi-Site Design Support

Engineering design expertise is at your fingertips when you collaborate with Pexco. Our team works closely with you to develop complex plastic components, offering deep knowledge of ultra and high-performance thermoplastics and application-specific guidance on materials, tooling, and process selection.

Multiple Points of Distribution

Pexco ships products worldwide from 14 manufacturing locations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Certifications

Pexco maintains ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications across multiple production facilities in the US, Mexico, and Canada. We are also certified to ISO 13485, AS9100, and SEMI F57 & C90 standards.

Design Engineering

Can your design engineers benefit from our extensive knowledge of ultra and high performance thermoplastics? We welcome the opportunity to assist your team in the design of technically challenging projects.

Pexco partners with our customers’ engineers to deliver exceptional injection molding, and ultra-high performance thermoplastics, including fiber-reinforced and highly loaded resin compounds. Our engineers have decades of experience in a wide range of resin formulations, and the skills necessary to design tooling and processes to mold these materials.

We thrive on the challenge of doing what no one else has done. It starts with obtaining a thorough understanding of your application.

After developing an understanding of the above, we leverage our experience, knowledge and extensive network of material scientists (when needed) to recommend potential material, tooling and process solution(s).

Critical preliminary questions typically include:

  • What is the thermal environment?
  • Will the component be subject to chemical, abrasive or corrosive environments?
  • What are the mechanical requirements?
  • Are there weight or inertial limits?
  • What are the friction and wear requirements?
  • Will there be electrical/thermal conductivity requirements?
  • What are the most critical dimensional tolerances?
  • Where are the critical component surfaces?
  • Are there sealing or interface requirements?
  • What are the conditions likely to cause failure?
  • What and how do we test it to ensure quality?

Tools & Technology

We can quickly evaluate ideas to see what does or does not work. From 3D CAD models, we can machine samples from stock materials, create resin cut or layered prototypes or provide temporary tooling to prove your ideas work before you make a significant capital investment.

Our engineering support includes:

  • Mechanical design engineering
  • 3D Priniting
  • Defining required thermoplastic performance characteristics
  • Thermoplastic resin selection and sourcing
  • Solid modeling (SOLIDWORKS, STEP, Parasolid and IGES)
  • CT based advance sizing and part surface mapping
  • Tooling design, tooling materials and sourcing
  • Mold Flow Analysis and Finite Element Analysis
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