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THERMOFORMING EXPERTS
SAY PLASTICS, INC.165 OAK LANEMcSHERRYSTOWN, PA 17344
PH: (717)-633-6333WWW.SAYPLASTICS.COM
THERMOFORMING CASE STUDY
OEM CONTRACT MANUFACTURING
Case Study OEM
When Daimler Bus North America was developing their next generation hybrid city transit bus they called SAY Plastics.
SAY PLASTICS, INC.165 OAK LANEMcSHERRYSTOWN, PA 17344
PH: (717)-633-6333WWW.SAYPLASTICS.COM
Case Study OEM
CUSTOMER: Daimler Bus North America; Orion Bus
Interior Bus Components to meet federal mass transit guidelines.
Develop and manufacture interior bus components.
APPLICATION:
CONTRACT:SAY PLASTICS, INC.165 OAK LANEMcSHERRYSTOWN, PA 17344
PH: (717)-633-6333WWW.SAYPLASTICS.COM
Case Study OEM
New next generation bus was coming on-line and Daimler was unhappy with current supplier. Needed to develop and prototype transit bus dash area to meet production start-up cost efficiently.
PROBLEM:
ISSUES: Materials: Required specialty Low Smoke, Low Flame material in custom color and texture.
Design: Parts were being developed and required prototypes to prove part interactions. Several parts required assemblies.
Time: The bus was scheduled to start production while seven different parts needed to be finalized.
Quality: Prototype parts required production materials and quality for final sign-off. Then production molds needed to be built.SAY PLASTICS, INC.
165 OAK LANEMcSHERRYSTOWN, PA 17344
PH: (717)-633-6333WWW.SAYPLASTICS.COM
Case Study OEM
SOLUTION: SAY Plastics designed and developed cost efficient prototype tooling, developed relationship with sheet extruder, and introduced alternative production tooling to quickly get into production.
VALUE: SAY Plastics utilized internal tool building capabilities to quickly and efficiently create molds and get production started on-time.
SAY PLASTICS, INC.165 OAK LANEMcSHERRYSTOWN, PA 17344
PH: (717)-633-6333WWW.SAYPLASTICS.COM
Case Study OEM
CONCLUSION:Daimler Bus started production with zero issues on thermoformed plastic components, rewarding SAY Plastics with a multi year supplier contract. SAY Plastics currently manufactures all thermoformed parts that go into the interior of this bus and is converting steel and FRP components to plastic.
SAY PLASTICS, INC.165 OAK LANEMcSHERRYSTOWN, PA 17344
PH: (717)-633-6333WWW.SAYPLASTICS.COM
