Celebrating 30 Years of Custom Thermoforming

We are very excited to be celebrating 30 years of Custom Thermoforming!!  Our company is a very strong locally owned and operated business.   I wanted to share with you a little bit of our history, as many people do not realize how we started into the Thermoforming business.

We are a very unique company nestled in a small town in Southern Indiana.  We started out thermoforming plastic as Thermwood Corporation where we thermoformed wood grained plastic products for the furniture industry, hence the name "Thermwood".

In 1981 Thermwood made a corporate decision to become totally automated, and they set out their dream to build CNC Routers.  We then set out on our mission to provide Custom Thermofoming.  We built a facility next door and purchased the Thermoforming and Sheet Extrusion assets of Thermwood.  With our company headquarters being located in beautiful Spencer County, Indiana we decided to name our company "Spencer Industries Incorporated".

Our company began with 58 employees in 1981.  Now in 2011 we have over 200 employees in our Indiana & South Carolina facilities.  We are proud to say that many of those same experienced employees are still working with us today!

Over the past 30 years we have expanded our Thermoforming, and warehouse facilities many times.  There were also purchases of new facilities in El Plaso, Texas and in Hampton, South Carolina.  The El Paso facility is no longer open, but we do currently produce large amounts of Thermoformed plastic products in our Hampton, South Carolina facility today!

Over the past 30 years we have also achieved several awards for our unique Thermoforming abilities.  These abilities are continually improving as we learn new ways to improve or products and business.

It's like our Motto says :
              "Excellence Through Continuous Improvement"


More history on our company



Thermoforming Job Opening: Quality Assurance Manager - Hampton, South Carolina

Thermoforming Business is picking up and moving forward...

  Spencer Industries Inc. is searching for a Quality Assurance Manager to join our team in Hampton, South Carolina.

Quality Assurance Manger Job Description

To apply please fill out an application

 in our front lobby or email your resume here

This position has been filled.  Thank you to all the applicants!!

Spencer Industries 2010 Scholarship Winners Announced

We are proud to announce that recipients of the 2010 Spencer Industries Primary Scholarship in the amount of $1,415 each are Derek Brown, son of Kenny and Darlene Brown, and Jessica Ritter, daughter of Jody Dodd.

The winners of the Special Supplemental Scholarship Drawing in the amount of $250 each are Caitlin Hedinger, daugher of Lisa Hedinger, and Joshua Rhoades, Son of Randy Rhoades.

Reduce Product Production Cost by adding a Plastic Living Hinge Vs. Traditional Metal Hinges

I have been writing about different ways to reduce the cost of producing products.  Design and Engineering are key to producing a high aesthetic product, but one goal usually is to keeping the total project cost down. 

Here is another idea to ponder....

• Replace a Traditional Metal Hinge with a Plastic Living Hinge
  
  Plastic Living Hinge ??  A Living hinge is similar to the hinge on a Tic-Tac breathmint container.. but picture it on a much larger scale....   

Imagine the Savings!
• No hinges to order! Lower Inventory costs!
• No extra labor/machine time to fasten them to the product. They are already there molded into the product.
• No risk for rust, and no need to grease the hinge.

Plastic Living Hinge
similar to the hinge on a Tic-Tac Container but large scale

We have put together an example of a Twin Sheet Thermoformed Roll-up Door with a Plastic Living Hinge.

Plastic Can Reduce Manufacturing Costs... Replace Metal with Plastic

Naturally plastic weighs less than most metals.  There are many things that can be done to save on manufacturing costs of a product if you can reduce the weight or components.  Here is an idea to ponder...

• Replace Metal with a Thermoformed Plastic Component
• Replacing any size piece of metal with Thermoformed plastic Component can reduce the weight of the product.  This will also lower the packing requirements and shipping costs.
• Worried about Strength?  Twin Sheeting is a proven solution to add structural integrity to a plastic thermoformed component.

The Velocity Tanning Bed is a great example of a product where a Thermoformed Plastic Component was used in place of Metal to reduce production and shipping costs.

Plastic Can Reduce Manufacturing Costs... How??

The economy has many companies thinking about different ways to reduce manufacturing cost.  There are many ways to do this, but many Innovative American Companies are looking into using different materials, or parts to reduce costs.

Naturally plastic weighs less than metal. There are many things that can be done to reduce cost if you can reduce the weight, eliminate painting with molded in color, or reduce the number of components needed to produce a product.

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Taking a Plastic Product Concept and turning it into Reality!

We have just published an additional page on our website to explain how we turn a Unique Plastic Product Concept into Reality! 

This webpage will step you through how our plastic thermoforming process flows from the initial rough draft a customer sends in, all they way to a finished consumer product.

Please view our Thermoformed Product "Concept-To-Reality" page to see how we can work One-on-One with you to help manage your project!