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When it comes to enclosure technology, plastic is the most versatile and cost-effective solution on the market today. In manufacturing, it's the efficient, flexible and quick-turn solution that saves precious time and money. But how do you determine if it's right for you? We've compiled some things to consider when deciding if a plastic enclosure is right for your product.

Versatility across many industry applications

Buckeye Shapeform's plastic enclosure technology produces fully customized, professional quality cases that are built to suit various needs of manufacturers in the medical, military and aerospace, test instrumentation and telecommunications industries. Depending on the type of plastic used, these enclosures can be impact and chemical resistant; FDA and USDA approved for use in food processing plants; bulletproof or flame retardant to undergo extreme temperatures.

A faster turn-around with little to no tooling costs

When using a standard extruded aluminum or metal enclosure, refining the product midway through the design stage can be cost-prohibiting. With Buckeye Shapeform's plastic enclosure technology, there's no tooling or molds to buy or build for special designs and hole sizes, allowing for the flexibility to change on-the-go. Having that flexibility in real-world product design and development helps reduce the time and cost spent on an enclosure.

Plastic types for every application

Buckeye Shapeform offers a wide variety of plastic materials, all of which are compliant with Restriction of Hazardous Substances rules. With its plastic enclosure technology, Buckeye Shapeform can create completely customized plastic enclosures in a variety of different plastic types:

Manufacturers benefit from plastic enclosures when they're looking to reduce weight; have an impact-resistant, chemical-resistant and flame-retardant product; or use a static resistant material that the USDA approves for food.

Could a plastic enclosure be right for you? Contact our experts or download our white paper for more information on Buckeye Shapeform's plastic enclosure technology.

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When it comes to enclosure technology, plastic is the most versatile and cost-effective solution on the market today. In manufacturing, it's the efficient, flexible and quick-turn solution that saves precious time and money. But how do you determine if it's right for you?

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High-Performance Instrument Control Knobs for Your A/V Products

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High-Performance Instrument Control Knobs for Your A/V Products

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Behind every successful theatre production, rock concert or television broadcast is a production crew making sure everything goes smoothly. From lighting and sound to wardrobe changes and directors, the behind-the-scenes crew is just as much a work of art as the onstage performance.

But the production crew isn't the only unseen component of every successfully synchronized performance. Behold: the instrument control knobs.

Performing to higher standards

Today, audio-visual (A/V) equipment industry leaders are charged with providing user-friendly, inexpensive products. Buckeye Shapeform creates quality instrument control knobs and accessories for countless A/V applications. Our ability to create instrument control knobs in-house saves A/V equipment suppliers time and money.

Delivering quality instrument control knobs

Buckeye Shapeform's instrument control knobs are precision-molded of ABS plastic and are noted for their toughness, rigidity, dimensional stability, glossy finish and resistance to stain, corrosion and variance of temperature. We make all of our knobs with a serrated aluminum bushing that is precisely set to assure concentricity.

Providing A/V customization options

Buckeye Shapeform's instrument control knobs can be accented with a variety of markings, caps and skirts. We offer six basic diameters with attractive variations in styles, the result of our many epoxy-coated caps, insets, pebble finish tops and color contrasting ring insets.

In a dynamic A/V equipment market, Buckeye Shapeform's talents meet your needs for performance, ease-of-use and economy. Contact Buckeye Shapeform and we'll help you find the knob that's right for you.

Click here to learn how Buckeye Shapeform helped Channel D Solutions, Inc. with their A/V equipment challenges.

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High-Performance Instrument Control Knobs | Buckeye Shapeform

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Behind every successful theatre production, rock concert or television broadcast is a production crew making sure everything goes smoothly. From lighting and sound to wardrobe changes and directors, the behind-the-scenes crew is just as much a work of art as the onstage performance. But the production crew isn't the only unseen component of every successfully synchronized performance.

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Custom Tin Containers: The Perfect Packaging Solution

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Custom Tin Containers: The Perfect Packaging Solution

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You've spent the time making your product as attractive and valuable to your customers as possible. Before you introduce your product into the market, you have an important market strategy decision to make: How will you package your product? With custom tin containers, the quality of your product will be reflected in the quality of its packaging.

Buckeye Shapeform's custom tin containers make your products look their very best with a complete line of premium, seamless, tin-plated steel containers. Plus, you get the industry's best set of value-added services, including custom sizes, embossed stamping, optional finishes and more.

Embossing

An embossed lid offers a way to enhance a brand, logo or positioning. Embossing not only adds a distinctive look to the lid but reduces your cost over time by eliminating the need for applying labels.

Special Sizes

Whether it be a specific size, material, color or product feature, Buckeye Shapeform can create custom tin containers to meet your need - including hard-to-find three-ounce cans!

Value-Added Services

Buckeye Shapeform offers customers the broadest range of services to help complete a product for sale. From layer-packing, assembly, custom packaging for optimal handling, or pad printing, Buckeye Shapeform works with you to make your business easier.

Here are just a handful of the kinds of products that are packaged in a seamless, custom tin container:

Are you looking for the best way to finish your product with class? Contact the experts at Buckeye Shapeform today!

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Custom Tin Containers: The Perfect Packaging Solution

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You've spent the time making your product as attractive and valuable to your customers as possible. Before you introduce your product into the market, you have an important market strategy decision to make: How will you package your product? With custom tin containers, the quality of your product will be reflected in the quality of its packaging.

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Deep Draw Applications: Ensuring Flawless Missile Skins

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Deep Draw Applications: Ensuring Flawless Missile Skins

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Deep Draw Applications: Ensuring Flawless Missile Skins

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There is perhaps no higher stakes arena than the battlefield. Failure is not an option, as weapon malfunctions can cause devastating consequences for soldiers and for our military. When product performance is mission-critical, Buckeye Shapeform relies on its deep draw applications to manufacture missile skins that deliver the accuracy and integrity necessary to keep soldiers safe.

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Buckeye Shapeform offers Endless Enclosure Customization Capabilities

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Buckeye Shapeform offers Endless Enclosure Customization Capabilities

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Many enclosure manufacturers offer a large number of standard enclosures that come in a variety of sizes, materials and configurations. Few offer the enclosure customization that Buckeye Shapeform does.

We go the extra mile for our customers regardless of order size or time constraints. We offer a complete lineup of enclosure models and sizes or we can create completely customized solutions in either metal or plastic materials. Our enclosures are widely used for military, medical, audio/visual, telecommunications and many other manufacturing industries.

The custom enclosures at Buckeye Shapeform replace the one-size-fits-all approach with one-stop shopping because we realize that standard enclosures don't work for every application. At Buckeye Shapeform, we take pride in our ability to customize the products we manufacture, no matter the order size.

Other customization options include:

Front- and rear-panel customization

Punching and holes

Self-clinching inserts and conventional fasteners

Standard conventional fasteners

Machining

Special sizes

In-house powder coating

Painted and vinyl-laminated metal finishes

Alodine and anodize plating

Screen printing

Shielding

Masking

Venting

Graphic overlays

Expedite the process with Buckeye Shapeform's 3-D CAD Designs

On the Buckeye Shapeform website, we offer a catalog of thousands of enclosures that we have produced for our customers. We also offer customers the ability to download our 3-D CAD designs, customize them to fit their product and send back to Buckeye Shapeform for manufacturing.

If customers don't have the ability - or the time - to create their own 3D CAD models, they can let the experienced team of engineers at Buckeye Shapeform assist them. Our experience has shown us that the ability to customize our enclosures using the 3-D CAD designs has sped up the process of getting a product to market.

Finish with a custom touch

We offer an in-house powder coating operation as a capability to provide our customers with more options on their enclosure finishes and to gain control over the process. By offering in-house powder coating, Buckeye Shapeform is able to offer a quicker delivery time and at a lower cost than an outside vendor would charge.

In an average year, Buckeye Shapeform processes about 15,000 to 17,000 orders, and every day we get requests for a product with a powder-coating finish. By offering this capability in-house, we are able to provide better-packaged solutions for our customers.

No matter how small the order, how tight the deadline or how challenging the enclosure, we pride ourselves on being able to manufacture custom enclosures ready for assembly. Buckeye Shapeform enclosures are engineered to reflect the highest standards of quality manufacturing and workmanship. If you're looking for the exact enclosure to fit your needs, contact Buckeye Shapeformtoday!

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Endless Enclosure Customization Capabilities | Buckeye Shapeform

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Many enclosure manufacturers offer a large number of standard enclosures that come in a variety of sizes, materials and configurations. Few offer the enclosure customization that Buckeye Shapeform does. We go the extra mile for our customers regardless of order size or time constraints.

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In-House Powder Coating with Buckeye Shapeform

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In-House Powder Coating with Buckeye Shapeform

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At Buckeye Shapeform, we go the extra mile for our customers regardless of order size, time constraint, or the size and scope of your business. We take pride in our ability to customize the products we manufacture, a differentiator that sets us apart from the competition.

At Buckeye Shapeform, we offer an in-house powder coating operation as a capability to provide customers with more options on their enclosure finishes and to gain control over the process. By offering in-house powder coating, we are able to offer a faster delivery time and at a lower cost compared to outsourcing.
Powder Coating 101
Powder coating is a type of coating that is applied as a powder paint to various parts. The powder coating is applied electrostatically, meaning there is a negative charge and a positive charge. The part to be painted is electrically charged and the powder coat, with the opposite charge, then sticks to the part. The part is then cured - or baked - under heat.

As with liquid paint, powder coating is available in almost any color choice. Having an array of color options makes it possible for companies to match colors to their logos or to other equipment.
Powder Coating vs. Liquid Paint
The advantage of powder coating over liquid paint is that it creates a hard finish that is tougher than liquid paint and less susceptible to chipping or peeling. Powder coating can be used to cover metals, including appliances, aluminum extrusions and various parts.

At Buckeye Shapeform, we apply powder coating to a thickness of four-thousandths of an inch, which provides extremely durable coverage.

In an average year, Buckeye Shapeform processes about 15,000 to 17,000 orders, and every day we get requests for a product with a powder-coating finish. By offering this capability in-house, we are able to provide better-packaged solutions for our customers.

If you have a project that requires powder coating, or if you have questions about this capability, contact the experts at Buckeye Shapeform!

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In-House Powder Coating with Buckeye Shapeform

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At Buckeye Shapeform, we provide a lineup of quality products to original equipment manufacturers around the world. Our solutions-based approach to serving the customer sets us apart from the competition, and today we stand out as the industry leader in quality enclosures, instrument knobs, tin containers, and deep draw technology.

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Buckeye Shapeform Provides Second-to-none Rugged Enclosure Designs

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Buckeye Shapeform Provides Second-to-none Rugged Enclosure Designs

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Buckeye Shapeform Provides Second-to-none Rugged Enclosure Designs

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NUCON International, an industry leader in filtration testing instrumentation since the early 1970s, needed an enclosure to meet its specifications as an off-the-shelf solution. Buckeye Shapeform's ability to modify its enclosures to fit a customer's exact specifications and provide value-added customization services made a Buckeye Shapeform enclosure the perfect solution for NUCON.

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Add Some Pizazz with Buckeye Shapeform Custom Enclosures

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Add Some Pizazz with Buckeye Shapeform Custom Enclosures

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An off-the-shelf enclosure may work for some, but certainly not for all. When a product needs to stand out, custom enclosures offer Buckeye Shapeform's customers something unique.

Here are some frequently asked questions about custom enclosures:
What silk-screening and graphic overlay services do you offer?
At Buckeye Shapeform, we can apply any design our customers provide to a custom enclosure. Single and multicolor silk-screening services enhance products, while custom silk-screened labels identify component plug-ins and other controls. Clients are also able to add a fun element with a graphic overlay of their company logos.
What types of hole punching and vent patterns do you offer?
Buckeye Shapeform keeps an inventory of more than 600 punches that range from basic patterns to highly complex ones. Our punch inventory includes:
Can I purchase fasteners and stand-offs from you?
Buckeye Shapeform has next-day service on most PEM fasteners and stand-offs. We work closely with PEM to supply the fasteners that its clients need as quickly as possible. Our supply includes:

Nuts for sheet metal

Studs and pins for sheet metal

Captive panel screws/hardware

Sheet-to-sheet attachment

Cable tie-mounts and hooks for sheet metal

Fasteners for printed circuit board mounting

MicroPEM fasteners

We also supply the following stand-offs:

Concealed-head

Snap-top

Thin sheet, thru-hold for stainless steel installation

MicroPEM, self-clinching

Keyhole

Grounding

Close-to-edge

What other enclosure customizations do you make?
Buckeye Shapeform manufactures internal chassis plates to its clients' specifications. A chassis plate holds electronic components to make insertion and extraction easier. A custom enclosure with internal chassis plates will hold components in place and slide out for easy access.

An enclosure design can include removable sides and top for even easier access to internal workings or grooves on the inside of a case so PCB boards stack neatly inside. Additionally, Buckeye Shapeform makes sure all enclosures meet industry specifications for strength and safety.
Expert Advice
At Buckeye Shapeform, each custom enclosure project benefits from a specialized team of experts ready to make sure all alterations and requirements are met. Rather than relying on machines to do all of the work, Buckeye Shapeform's team customizes everything so the final product fits perfectly into the design.

Are you looking for a custom enclosure solution? Contact the experts at Buckeye Shapeform today!

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Add Some Pizazz with Buckeye Shapeform Custom Enclosures

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At Buckeye Shapeform, we provide a lineup of quality products to original equipment manufacturers around the world. Our solutions-based approach to serving the customer sets us apart from the competition, and today we stand out as the industry leader in quality enclosures, instrument knobs, tin containers, and deep draw technology.

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Add Distinction with Custom Tin Containers

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Add Distinction with Custom Tin Containers

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Add Distinction with Custom Tin Containers

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At Buckeye Shapeform, we provide a lineup of quality products to original equipment manufacturers around the world. Our solutions-based approach to serving the customer sets us apart from the competition, and today we stand out as the industry leader in quality enclosures, instrument knobs, tin containers, and deep draw technology.

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Buckeye Shapeform Offers Durability and Customization with In-house Powder Coating | Buckeye Shapeform

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Buckeye Shapeform Offers Durability and Customization with In-house Powder Coating | Buckeye Shapeform

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Gain control of your enclosures manufacturing process with more options, faster delivery, and lower costs.

DL Instruments, a New York-based manufacturer of a range of electronic instrumentation for industrial, commercial, and laboratory use since 1995, required a solution to an ineffective finish on the trim of many enclosures used for the company's products. The thin, anodized coating on the trim was unable to withstand the customer's manufacturing process, resulting in visible surface. Buckeye Shapeform's ability to customize enclosures and offer in-house powder coating provided DL Instruments with more durable finish options and more control over the cost of its enclosures, making Buckeye Shapeform the perfect partner for this solution.

The powder-coat finish enhanced the durability of the coating of DL Instrument's enclosures while maintaining the product's overall look and feel. By offering an in-house powder-coating operation, Buckeye Shapeform also was able to offer a customized solution, faster delivery time and lower costs, compared to outsourcing the service.

"Buckeye Shapeform helped us get a powder-coating solution that we never knew existed, so that our trims now still have a very classic look like before but are also much easier to use in our manufacturing process. The price is also reduced because of the easier manufacturing process." DL Instruments

Buckeye Shapeform was sensitive to the customer's requirement that any change in the coating of the trim remain consistent with DL Instruments' branding and appearance of the high volume of units already on the market. After machining and punching the front and rear plates, Buckeye Shapeform provided DL Instruments with a completely powder-coated unit with both a black and clear (white/silver) finish that was nearly identical to the enclosure's original appearance.

While the customer's enclosure is a standard unit, the modifications allowed for an attractive and unique customization. As a result of Buckeye Shapeform's solution, DL Instruments has received a durable, robust enclosure that has exceeded all of the company's expectations and resolved the problems occurring during the manufacturing process.

Buckeye Shapeform's in-house powder-coating operation reflects the highest standards of customer service, quality manufacturing, and customization. Interested in taking advantage of our service? Contact Buckeye Shapeform today!

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Buckeye Shapeform Offers Durability and Customization with In-house Powder Coating

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DL Instruments, a New York-based manufacturer of a range of electronic instrumentation for industrial, commercial, and laboratory use since 1995, required a solution to an ineffective finish on the trim of many enclosures used for the company's products. The thin, anodized coating on the trim was unable to withstand the customer's manufacturing process, resulting in visible surface.