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Providing Tangible Value for the Plastics Manufacturing Industry

At Cross Company, our key value drivers center around customer success. With a focus on innovation, we aim to help our customers grow their businesses. Take a look at how we provide tangible results for this industry and learn more about our Innovate, Grow, Transform initiative.

Increase Efficiency

Significantly decrease downtime in your process with our automation solutions.

Reduce Risk

Free up human operators to do additional, more meaningful and less repetitive tasks that would be too difficult and impractical to automate.

Improve Quality

Move and measure a range of plastic components automatically, ensuring uniformity in your process.
Significantly decrease downtime in your process with our automation solutions.
Free up human operators to do additional, more meaningful and less repetitive tasks that would be too difficult and impractical to automate.
Move and measure a range of plastic components automatically, ensuring uniformity in your process.

Improve Efficiency and Reduce Downtime in Plastics Production

Cross company offers a range of technical solutions for the plastics manufacturing industry. Our products and solutions provide tangible value for your operation, targeting quality and efficiency in your process. With a track record of real return on investment, you can be confident that working with Cross will benefit your plastic machining or manufacturing operation.

For example, at Cross, we know that cycle time is a key factor that can be strongly influenced by unscheduled machine downtime and length of start-up time. Both of these factors can be better controlled and decreased through the use of an automated solution. As little as five minutes of downtime can take 30-40 minutes to recoup in production.

Our automation group develops solutions to significantly reduce downtime and free up human operators to do additional, more meaningful tasks that may be too difficult or impractical to automate. Some examples of process efficiencies where automated solutions can be implemented with a fast ROI in plastics machine tending and secondary processes:

  • Sprue, Flash And Burr Removal
  • Part Transfer From Cooling Conveyor To Tray, Bin, Or Box
  • Repetitive Insertion Of Overmold Part Or Insert Mold Placement
  • Simple Secondary Insert Process (Rivet, Seal In Cap, Screws, Etc)
  • Weight Measurement With Visual Inspection
  • Banding, Stacking, Boxing Of Completed Goods Palletizing Of Completed Boxes

Common Applications

Pick Transfer

Pick And Place

Packaging

Robot Assisted Inspection

Machine Tending

CMM Fixtures

Force Fixtures

Scale Fixtures

Vacuum Fixtures

Vision Fixtures

Latest Case Studies

Products for Plastics Manufacturers

Explore our extensive range of products, including precision sensors, control systems, automation solutions, and more, designed to meet the specific demands of the plastics manufacturing industry.

Latest Resources

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For a biopharmaceutical industrial revolution to progress and achieve its objectives, there must be convergence, adoption, and integration of enabling technologies, like the Brooks Instrument Biotech Mass Flow Controller, within bioprocess equipment in order to raise operational efficiency, improve quality, and increase drug product yields.
March 18, 2024
The Portavo 907 Multi is an invaluable multi-purpose tool for any analyzer or lab technician. Designed for use inside of plant operations as well as in the shop or lab, this portable meter, with a connected sensor, measures pH, ORP, conductivity, and oxygen.
March 15, 2024
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Parker’s PURE food grade hoses enable a clean and safe transfer of a wide variety of foods, beverages, sanitary materials, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
March 11, 2024
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We are excited to announce the introduction of Bodine’s new stainless steel, IP69k gearmotors, the 56R1-50JW/H.
March 5, 2024
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Insulating gases (primarily SF6 but also SF6 blends, N2, g3, and a variety of others) are used in industrial settings to protect switchgear from failure.
March 4, 2024
plastics assembly bottling line

Automation, Measurement, Inspection, and More

Our automation engineers focus on designing and delivering a custom tailored solution for your specific application, turnkey integration, and follow-up support as needed. We have applied custom automation for plastics manufacturers and many in the plastics industry to help significantly improve their efficiency.

Because floorspace is limited in plastic production environments, many of the solutions we have implemented require no more space than a human operator. What’s more, they utilize collaborative robotic technology that typically requires less floor space.

In addition to automation solutions, we offer a range of inspection solutions and precision measurement for the plastics industry. For example, when you are inspecting complex or hard to measure parts to ensure quality, custom fixtures can help hold parts in a repeatable position to be measured by a CMM or vision inspection system. If you are manufacturing parts such as lids, you may need to test the force required to open or shut. A custom force fixture can help to ensure consistency in your testing process.

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How Can Cross Company Help?

At Cross Company, our focus is on our customers. Whether it’s a simple on-site calibration or testing of complex systems, we always provide the same world-class, customer-focused service. And we can provide it for your chemical manufacturing facility, too.

With our focus on customer service and satisfaction, we can make sure you get the systems and inspection services you need to smoothly run your operation. From routine maintenance to quick repairs to ongoing monitoring, we work directly with all of our customers to make sure their needs are met.

When it comes to industrial chemical production operations, there are many unique challenges that call for an expert. Cross can be that expert for you. Contact us today to start the process.

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Did you know… Cross Company is an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). Our ESOP started in 1979 and as of 2006, we are 100% employee-owned! Learn more about our ESOP and how that benefits both team members and our customers.
Did you know... the precision measurement group at Cross was founded in 1939 by our current CEO's grandfather, Jim King. That's a whole lot of calibration!
Did you know... A fingerprint weighs about 50 micrograms. We know, we weighed it! The residue left from a finger can actually make a difference in weight results which is why we wear gloves when we calibrate weights. For reference, a sheet of paper is about 4.5 grams, that’s 4.5 million micrograms.
Did you know… Cross Company has grown significantly since our start in 1954. Over the years we've acquired 26 companies! Today, our five groups have expertise in everything from industrial automation to precision measurement, and industry knowledge going all the way back to 1939.