Planet Plastics

What Planet Plastics does

Planet Plastics Company is a privately held custom plastic fabricator founded in 1955 and headquartered in a 43,000 square-foot facility at 14954 La Palma Drive, Chino, California. The firm specializes in thermoforming, drape forming, vacuum forming, blow molding, CNC routing (3-axis and 5-axis), laser cutting and etching, and finishing of thermoplastics including acrylic, polycarbonate, PETG, expanded PVC, ABS, and styrene. Its hallmark capability is the free-form blow molding of hemispheres up to 96 inches in diameter and 48 inches deep, enabling fabrication of 8-foot-diameter globes by joining two hemispheres — a scale and capability set that positions the company for specialty projects that smaller fabricators cannot accommodate.

The company serves a diversified vertical mix including commercial and architectural lighting (light diffusers and replacement lenses for fluorescent, LED, and HID fixtures), POP retail displays, museum and aquarium fixtures, food and beverage displays, jewelry and cosmetics displays, transportation/automotive components, and entertainment/theme park props. Named enterprise customers include Universal Studios Hollywood, Marvel's Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. exhibition, Jurassic World, Gensler, and Animal Planet's Tanked program. The business operates on a quote-based, direct-sales model with no published pricing, ships quantities from one to millions, and offers in-house custom packaging, kitting, digital printing, screen printing, and full fulfillment.

Planet Plastics is a small (11–50 employee), privately held firm with no disclosed investors, funding rounds, parent entity, or executive roster. It markets through its website and a direct sales team of trained representatives working with designers and engineers from concept through delivery. The company's stated strategic position is 'forming ideas into reality,' supported by a 50+ year operating history, satisfaction guarantee, and marquee entertainment-project credentials.

Name

Planet Plastics

Legal name

Planet Plastics Company

Website

https://planetplastics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Planet Plastics is a 70-year-old custom plastic fabricator in Chino, California, serving lighting, POP retail, entertainment, museum, and architectural clients with thermoforming, blow molding, CNC routing, and laser cutting from a 43,000 SF facility.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Custom Plastic Fabrication and Manufacturing

NAICS

Plastics Product Manufacturing (3261), All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing (326199)

SIC

Miscellaneous Plastics Products (3080)

akta.pro primary industry

Thermoformed Consumer Products & Housewares (IMANAHAD)

Keywords

• Custom plastic fabrication
• Thermoforming services
• POP retail displays
• Lighting diffusers
• CNC plastic routing

Headquarters

HQ city

Chino

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Plastic Fabrication Products: One-time product sales of custom fabricated plastic products including POP displays, lighting components, domes, hemispheres, spheres, cylinders, and custom shapes. Products are sold in quantities from one to millions, with custom packaging and kitting available.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Planet Plastics is a custom plastic fabricator that designs, forms, cuts, and finishes thermoplastic components and finished products — including acrylic domes, hemispheres, spheres, cylinders, lighting diffusers/lenses, and POP retail displays — using thermoforming, vacuum forming, blow molding, CNC routing, and laser cutting/etching. Orders are accepted in any quantity from a single unit to millions, with in-house printing, custom packaging, and kitting/fulfillment available. The company works closely with customers' designers and engineers from concept through delivery, producing standard catalog capabilities as well as fully custom one-off projects.

Product overview

Planet Plastics is a plastic fabrication company offering custom manufacturing services through a unified portfolio of complementary capabilities. The core offering centers on precision plastic fabrication—acrylic domes, hemispheres, spheres, cylinders, custom fabrication, CNC routing, and laser cutting/etching—alongside specialized vertical applications in POP retail displays and lighting components. These products are produced using thermoforming, drape forming, vacuum forming, blow forming, CNC routing, laser cutting, printing, and finishing processes from the company's 43,000 SF facility. Customers can order from one part to millions with custom packaging and fulfillment services available.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Acrylic Domes

Quantifiable outcome

• 50+ years in business serving diverse industries

Named customers5 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Piedmont Plastics: North America's largest plastic distribution and fabrication company, offering cut-to-size, CNC routing, and thermoforming across all major thermoplastic lines—competing with Planet Plastics on scale, material breadth, and fabricated parts supply.
• Plaskolite: Largest North American manufacturer of acrylic sheet and a growing fabricator of finished acrylic products including lighting, POP, and architectural components—an upstream incumbent that competes with Planet Plastics in fabricated acrylic parts and lighting lenses.
• Calsak Plastics: West Coast plastic distributor and fabricator with custom cut-to-size, forming, and fabrication services—a geographically overlapping competitor in the California custom plastics market.
• AIN Plastics (ThyssenKrupp Materials NA): National plastic distribution and fabrication arm of a major materials group, offering CNC machining, custom cutting, and fabricated plastic parts to industrial OEM customers—competes for fabrication share with much larger corporate backing.

Direct peers

• TAP Plastics: West Coast-based retail and custom plastic fabrication chain offering acrylic cutting, CNC routing, thermoforming, and POP displays to consumer and commercial customers—directly overlapping Planet Plastics' core custom fabrication and retail display business.
• Professional Plastics: US-based plastic distributor and fabricator offering custom cut-to-size, CNC machining, and fabrication of acrylic, polycarbonate, and engineering plastics—directly comparable to Planet Plastics' custom fabrication and CNC routing services.
• Interstate Plastics: Full-service plastic distributor with in-house fabrication, CNC routing, and laser cutting serving industrial, retail display, and OEM customers—an operationally similar custom plastics fabricator competing for the same mid-market custom work.
• E&T Plastics: Custom plastic fabrication and wholesale distributor with CNC routing, laser cutting, and thermoforming capabilities serving POP, retail, and industrial customers—offering a similar full-service custom fabrication profile.

Regional players

• Regal Plastics: Texas-based plastic fabrication and distribution company offering custom cutting, CNC routing, and thermoformed display components to retail and commercial customers—regionally scoped but serving the same POP display and custom fabrication use cases.
• Ridout Plastics: Southern California-based plastic fabricator specializing in custom acrylic fabrication, POP displays, and museum/exhibit cases—a regional direct peer competing in the same Chino/SoCal corridor with overlapping retail and exhibit customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/planet-plastics-company

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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