Why Columbia Plastics

What differentiates us from our competitors is the ability to custom design a manufacturing solution that is more than just molding. Our facility gives us an advantage when it comes to supporting high volume manufacturing. Although most clients have an existing design, they’re often challenged by limited resources, whether it’s time or budget or sourcing materials. Our approach allows us to swiftly overcome any limitations your project may have.

How We Work

Design

We take a collaborative approach to Design for Manufacture and custom manufacturing solutions, bringing decades of experience and practical problem solving to identify any possible flaws that may affect your project before it is launched.

Troubleshoot

We have a long history of customers bringing us problems other molders or offshore suppliers can’t solve. We pride ourselves at reviewing every option to ensure the right solution is chosen for your products longevity.

Manufacture

Whether it is a high volume odometer needle, a fully assembled seed meter or a sterile cell culture plate, we can produce products for any industry and often times products that others refuse.

Our Facility

We serve our diverse global clients from our 50,000 square foot ISO 9001, 13485 certified and FDA registered manufacturing centre in Surrey, BC. We operate 24/5 using Lean Manufacturing Principles on small to large production runs while utilizing scientific molding and automation.

We have the largest number of molding machines (17-750 MTon) in Canada west of Ontario supporting our high-volume customers while focusing on a wide range of both semi-crystalline and amorphous plastics.

Our in house tool room allows us to control mold maintenance, complete design modifications and ensure minimal tool down time in production.

Our management philosophy is one of transparency and teamwork. For decades we have utilized our Continuous Improvement Through Teams (C.I.T.T.) program that creates a pro-active environment that ensures our solution meets your expectations and our people stay safe.

Western Canada’s first Class 7 10,000 Cleanroom

Our cleanroom plastic injection molding facilities can be augmented by custom assembly and packaging machinery needed to meet your needs.  We also offer in custom in process testing, vacuum formed packaging and Tyvek as well as automatic adhesive deposition. All our medical and clean room molds are designed with in mold sensors for greater process control, automated reject detection and superior IQ/OQ/PQ validation.

Our Projects

This open atmosphere is what has made us so successful and popular with our clients. We solve problems. We innovate. We make your products better. Not just in the process and manufacture of components, but knowing the parts we make go to making lives better.

Whether it’s a piece of vital medical equipment or a pill vial, we take pride in delivering solutions that make a difference.

View our industry specific case studies below on how we have helped our clients so far.

Case Studies

Medical Case Study

Overmolded Medical Part

Our customers comprise local, regional, national, and global health care corporations, with products ranging from prosthetic knee housings and vital signs monitoring devices to video laryngoscopes and bone regenerating dental devices, to name a few.

Our Solution
Industrial Case Study

UV Additive

Low-cost off-shore industrial construction products were flooding the west coast market, posing a major threat to our customer’s business. Required a product with various options that was transactional in nature.

Our Solution
Mining Case Study

Oversized Drill Hole Plugs

Our customer’s client reported a major safety incident when a mine employee stepped in a large drill hole plug and broke their leg.

Our Solution
Agriculture Case Study

Seed Tube Housing

The customer brought us a design that required exceptionally large and expensive tooling. The design consisted of three different lengths of molded plastic used to hold a steel cylinder for seed transport. Other than the lengths the, three designs were identical.

Our Solution
Commercial Case Study

Integrated Global Team Collaboration

Our customer is in a very competitive commodity industry. In order to compete globally, they needed to purchase material in rail car quantities to ensure the best raw material pricing.

Our Solution
Agriculture Case Study

Seed Metering System

The customer needed to convert a seed metering system from metal into plastic and ensure parts hit the minimum test specifications perfectly every time.

Our Solution