formed solutions, inc.
To This...
And This...
The new plant is spacious, well lit, and has high air turnover.
Room for Future Growth
Product Flow at FSI Today
Tool Racks
CNC Trimmers
Single-Station Formers
Shipping/
Receiving
Rotary Formers
A key goal for the new plant was effcient production
fow in a racetrack design that minimizes redundant
materials and parts handling. Manufacturing area is
44,000 ft 2 .
FSI envisions almost doubling in size, separating the forming and CNC trimming operations, and replacing the current racetrack production fow with a linear fow-through
pattern from East to West—in one door and out the other.
Formed Solutions Today
FSI (formedsolutions.com) currently
occupies 50,000 ft 2 of manufacturing
area. It has $3.5-million annual revenue, 20 employees, and seven forming
machines—three rotaries and four
single-station—from MAAC Machinery, Brown Machine, and Modern
Machinery of Beaverton. These are
supplemented by four 5-axis CNC
trimmers from CMS North America
and Multiax International.
The frm has ISO 9001:2008 quality
certifcation and serves customers in
offce furniture, medical and industrial
equipment, appliances, aerospace (approved by Boeing), and point-of-purchase displays. It forms mostly ABS,
HIPS, PC, acrylic, and some HDPE.
Besides vacuum and pressure forming,
FSI performs compression forming of
thermoplastic composites.
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