Atlantis Plastics, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture of specialty plastic films and custom molded and extruded plastic products used for storage and transportation, food service, appliance, automotive, commercial and consumer applications. The company operates 15 manufacturing plants located throughout the United States.
Segments
The company operates three operating business segments: Plastic Films, Injection Molding and Profile Extrusion.
Plastic Films
The Plastic Films segment comprises t...
Atlantis Plastics, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture of specialty plastic films and custom molded and extruded plastic products used for storage and transportation, food service, appliance, automotive, commercial and consumer applications. The company operates 15 manufacturing plants located throughout the United States.
Segments
The company operates three operating business segments: Plastic Films, Injection Molding and Profile Extrusion.
Plastic Films
The Plastic Films segment comprises three operating divisions: Stretch Films, Custom Films and Institutional Products. Stretch Films produces monolayer and multilayer plastic films used to cover, package and protect products for storage and transportation applications. Custom Films produces various monolayer and multilayer plastic films used as substrates in multilayer laminations for retail packaging, foam padding for carpet and automotive applications, medical applications, protective masking for acrylic sheet goods, industrial packaging, and a range of other applications. Institutional products converts custom films into disposable products, such as table covers, gloves, and aprons, which are used primarily in institutional food service.
Injection Molding
Injection Molding manufactures both custom and proprietary injection molded products that are sold primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the home appliance, power tool, automotive parts, recreational vehicle, and construction industries. Injection Molding also manufactures a line of proprietary plastic cedar shake siding panels for the home building industry and residential replacement market under the Cedarway trade name.
Profile Extrusion
Profile Extrusion is a manufacturer of custom extruded plastic products, primarily for use in consumer and commercial products, including recreational vehicles, mobile homes, residential doors and windows, office furniture and appliances.
Products
Stretch Films: The company is a producers of stretch films in the United States. The company manufactures both monolayer and multilayer stretch films used primarily to wrap pallets of industrial and commercial goods for shipping or storage. Secondary markets for stretch film products include the bundling of non-palletized products, such as carpet rolls, construction materials, furniture and paper. Stretch films are produced using linear low density polyethylene resins and other materials, and are manufactured using both blown and cast extrusion processes to meet rigid customer specifications. It has approximately 400 SKU’s in the machine wrap and hand wrap segment. The company's product offerings include its Advantage stretch film line, which incorporates three stretch films types, and is marketed under the Linear brand product family.
Custom Films: The company produces single and multilayer blown, cast and embossed films made from various polymers and co-polymers of ethylene, including low density and linear low density polyethylene. These custom engineered and specialty films serve the coating, lamination, medical, automotive, textile, carpeting, furniture, manufacturing and food packaging industries. Custom Films maintains approximately 1,000 film recipes utilizing different combinations of resins, colors, and specialized additives in a range of film widths, thicknesses, and roll configurations. The division’s primary market segments include:
Flexible Packaging Converter Films: Films engineered for converted flexible packaging are marketed under the Proflex brand and used in laminated applications as sealant layers, barrier layers and/or as a print carrier for graphics in stand-up pouches and similar value added packaging. Proflex films can also be used in an unsupported format, plain or printed, for the manufacture of bags or wrapping of foods and consumer goods, such as bakery or towel and tissue items.
Masking Films: Masking Films are used to protect the surface of materials, such as acrylic or polycarbonate sheet, glass and metal during transportation, storage, fabrication and installation. These films incorporate a scratch, abrasion and gouge resistant layer on one side and a heat activated adhesive layer on the other, to bind the film to the final product’s surface and allow removal to expose a pristine product surface once an item is finished.
Foam Lamination and Adhesive Films: Foam lamination films are designed to be a carrier Web and become an integral structural component of carpet pad foam and automotive trim components.
Non-Woven Lamination Films: These films adhere to non-woven substrates and become a functional part of the finished product. Applications include dental bibs, surgical drapings, other medical related products and absorbent tray pads used in meat packaging.
Carpet, Furniture and Textile Packaging Films: This category includes various Web films and protective bags used for wrapping textiles and packaging format items, such as mattresses and furniture.
Embossed Films: Embossed films are used in the manufacture of personal care items, disposable protective clothing and table cloths, and for carrier or release films used in the production of rubber, composite aerospace materials and molding compounds as a separation medium.
Institutional Products: Marketed under the Sta-Dri brand name, the company produces disposable consumer and institutional plastic products for the food service, party supply and school/collegiate markets. These product offerings are available in various styles, colors, thickness levels and weights. Products produced include table covers and skirts, aisle runners, aprons, bibs, gloves, boots, freezer/storage bags, saddle pack bags, locker wrap and custom imprint designs.
Injection Molding: The company produces custom thermoplastic components for small and large appliances, including refrigerators, air conditioners, dehumidifiers and dishwashers. The division also manufactures products for the power tool, recreational vehicle, automotive and building products markets. Injection Molding manufactures a proprietary line of cedar replica building panels for siding applications in residential and commercial construction markets. The line includes a cedar shake panel for siding applications sold under the Cedarway brand name and proprietary half-round accent panels.
Profile Extrusion: The company is a major manufacturer and marketer of profile extruded and injection molded components for the recreational vehicle market based in Elkhart, Indiana. In addition to certain building products produced by the company's Injection Molding division, Profile Extrusion offerings also include building products accessories, such as double-utility trim, PLY-J flexible J channel siding trim, Flex-Flash flexible drip edge flashing products, and a fluted outside corner, which is an extruded building component used primarily in the remodeling industry.
History
Atlantis Plastics, Inc. was founded in 1983.