What Profile Plastics does

Profile Plastics, Inc. is a custom plastic profile extrusion manufacturer founded in 1993 in Northeast Ohio and currently operating from an 85,000 square foot facility in Canton, Ohio. The company produces extruded plastic profiles across three core capabilities: single-material custom profile extrusion (simple tubes to complex parts with critical tolerances), coextrusion and triextrusion combining rigid and flexible materials such as vinyls, TPEs, TPVs, and TPUs, and cross head extrusion that embeds conductors, reinforcement, fabrics, or threads directly into the profile. It complements these core processes with a broad value-added services bundle including tape and adhesive application, printing, embossing, punching, drilling, CNC machining, bending, welding, custom packaging, labeling, and kit assembly, supported by an on-site tool and die shop that handles tooling design and fabrication in-house. Differential technical claims include the ability to run acrylic optical fiber inside matrix material at processing temperatures 100F above the fiber's melting point, and willingness to take on parts other extrusion shops decline.

The company serves a horizontally diversified set of OEM end markets including windows and doors, electrical, furniture, signage and display, medical, agricultural, appliance, building and construction, consumer products, recreation and sports, and wire and cable, generating project-based, custom-spec revenue rather than catalog or volume products. Its go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven: customers engage via an RFQ process (Request for Quote), submit part specifications and quantity requirements, and are supported by direct phone contact and an on-site application engineering team that assists from initial concept through final product delivery. Pricing is quote-based with no public rate sheet, and billings are tied to per-order or estimated annual usage. The firm is privately held by its founding family, employs 11-50 people, and reports that two-thirds of its customers have been with Profile for over ten years, with many exceeding twenty years of tenure.

Profile operates nine extrusion lines across three shifts Monday through Friday, with documented capital investments including a 4 1/2 inch MPM extruder and a 3-axis CNC router added in late 2019 to expand capacity and value-added capability. It holds no public listing, has no known institutional investors or venture backing, has not disclosed any M&A activity, and competes on the basis of technical problem-solving, accumulated extrusion know-how, and durable customer relationships rather than scale, brand, or differentiated technology platforms.

Name

Profile Plastics

Legal name

Profile Plastics, Inc.

Website

https://profileplastics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Profile Plastics is a family-owned custom plastic profile extruder based in Canton, Ohio, producing simple-to-complex profiles, coextrusions, and cross head extrusions with embedded components for OEMs across windows/doors, electrical, medical, furniture, and other industrial end markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Custom Plastic Profile Extrusion Manufacturing

NAICS

Unlaminated Plastics Profile Shape Manufacturing (326121)

SIC

Plastics Products, Nec (3089)

akta.pro primary industry

Profile Extrusion (PVC/PE/PP Profiles, Trim, Channels) (IMANACAH)

Keywords

• Custom plastic extrusion
• Coextrusion services
• Cross head extrusion
• Plastic profile manufacturing
• Industrial plastic fabrication

Headquarters

HQ city

Canton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Revenue model

1. Custom Plastic Profile Manufacturing: Profile Plastics generates revenue through custom plastic extrusion manufacturing services. This includes custom profile extrusion, coextrusion, cross head extrusion, and value-added services such as fabrication, assembly, and custom packaging. Revenue is project-based, driven by customer-specific part manufacturing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Profile Plastics manufactures custom plastic profile extrusions, including standard profile extrusion, coextrusion, and cross head extrusion for embedding conductors or reinforcement into plastic parts. The company supports customers from initial concept through final product delivery, providing application assistance, on-site tool and die fabrication, and value-added post-extrusion services such as fabrication, assembly, CNC machining, custom packaging, and labeling.

Product overview

Profile Plastics is a custom plastic profile extrusion manufacturer offering three core extrusion capabilities: Custom Profile Extrusion for simple to complex profiles, Coextrusion for multi-material parts with flexible/hinged sections, and Cross Head Extrusion for embedded components. The company provides Value Added Services including fabrication, assembly, and custom packaging, plus Application Assistance for design engineering and tooling. The 85,000 square foot Canton, Ohio facility operates nine extrusion lines on three shifts, serving industries including windows/doors, furniture, medical, electrical, and industrial.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Custom Profile Extrusion

Quantifiable outcome

• Many parts are those that others were unwilling or unable to produce
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments11 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Teknor Apex: Teknor Apex is a large, diversified plastics compounder and custom extruder with multiple business units across rigid PVC, TPEs, and profile shapes. It is a much larger incumbent that competes with Profile Plastics on selected custom profile opportunities but serves a far broader set of resin systems and end markets.
• Westlake Chemical Corporation: Westlake is a large publicly-traded integrated chemicals and building products producer with significant plastic pipe, profile, and compounds operations. While vastly larger, it participates in select end markets that overlap with Profile Plastics, particularly construction profiles, and serves as a benchmark for scale economics in extrusion.
• Primex Plastics Corporation: Primex is a major manufacturer of extruded plastic sheet, profile, and color-compounded products serving signage, industrial, and building markets. Its coextrusion and profile capabilities overlap with Profile Plastics, though it operates at substantially greater scale and across a wider geographic footprint.
• Royal Group (Royal Building Products): Royal Building Products is a large North American extruder of PVC profiles, mouldings, and trim systems serving the building products channel. While it competes more on standardized building profiles than on custom coextrusion, it overlaps with Profile Plastics in construction-related profile demand and is a broader incumbent reference point for the custom profile niche.

Direct peers

• Crescent Industries: Crescent Industries is a custom plastic profile extrusion company serving medical, industrial, and consumer markets with coextrusion and value-added services. It is one of the most direct comparables to Profile Plastics in terms of scale, custom niche focus, and OEM customer base.
• NewAge Industries: NewAge Industries is a custom plastic extrusion manufacturer producing tubing, hose, and profile shapes for industrial, medical, and fluid handling applications. Like Profile Plastics, it is a privately held, mid-sized custom extruder focused on tight-tolerance OEM work with engineering support from concept to production.
• Custom-Pak Inc. Custom-Pak operates custom plastic profile and sheet extrusion lines supplying OEM customers in construction, transportation, and industrial markets. The company overlaps with Profile Plastics in coextrusion, profile shapes, and downstream fabrication services.
• Pawling Engineered Products: Pawling Engineered Products specializes in custom extruded profile shapes including rubber and plastic weatherstripping, sealing, and impact profiles for OEM customers. It is closely comparable to Profile Plastics in tight-tolerance custom profile work for industrial and construction-related OEMs.
• Aero-Plastics Inc. Aero-Plastics is a custom plastic profile extrusion house serving OEM customers across signage, retail display, construction, and industrial applications. It mirrors Profile Plastics' custom short- to medium-run profile work and value-added fabrication services for niche industrial customers.
• Poly-Plastics Inc. Poly-Plastics is a custom plastic profile extrusion manufacturer producing rigid and flexible profiles for industrial, retail, and OEM customers. Its scale and product focus on custom short-run and long-run profiles directly mirror Profile Plastics' go-to-market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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