Custom Quality and Specifications

Your local sheet distributor stocks large quantities of material produced to standard specifications. This situation is great if the sheet required for your application falls neatly within those specifications. Many of our customers have products that have products or production processes that require on or more aspects of the specification to be more tightly controlled. In several cases customer have been struggling for years to get the level of product quality from distributors. At HighLine we develop a custom specification for each customer and put in place the appropriate quality control systems. Reach out to us if you have been unable to achieve the quality of product that you need from your current supplier.

Supply of consistent PETG sheet

An industrial customer needed to laminate another substrate to the surface of clear PET-G sheet. Over many years the PET-G sheet supplied by distribution had been inconsistent for flatness, squareness and dimensional tolerance. These problems meant that the sheet often caused problems in their laminating equipment. The producer of the [...]

PETG sheet within tight specification

An industrial product manufacturer needed clear PET-G sheet with a thickness tolerance of +/- 0.005%. Local distributors were only able to guarantee a thickness tolerance of +/-10% as they were not able to obtain product with a tighter tolerance from their suppliers. HighLine carried out trials over a number of [...]

Polycarbonate with consistent shrinkage

A thermo-former of tight tolerance polycarbonate parts needed consistent shrinkage in both the extrusion direction and the cross direction in order to accurately form parts. They had been experiencing shrinkage in the range of 0% to 8% from polycarbonate purchased from distribution. To account for the wide range of shrinkage, [...]