Our History - Southwest Plastics

From Humble Beginnings

An industry leader for over 55 years, Southwest Plastics Company specializes in custom molding plastic and rubber parts. Over the years we have evolved and changed with the industry while maintaining the traditional family values and work ethic that make us a success. Using the latest technologies and techniques, our reputation for precision molding, quality, service and value are well-known throughout the industries we serve.

In 1990, Southwest Plastics moved to Glendora, California to meet our expanding production needs and to be more centrally located to better serve our customer base. Our experienced staff, diverse molding capabilities, and extensive secondary operation department enable us to produce a wide spectrum of plastic parts for all industries. We proudly operate a financially sound organization that experiences very low turnover in personnel.

Count on Southwest Plastics for reliable performance every time. We have been serving customers from aerospace to fitness and automotive to fast food dispensing requiring all volumes of production for over 45 years. Our customers rely on our experience and attention to detail with thermoplastic and thermoset plastic compounds for thermoplastic injection molding, thermoset injection molding, thermoset compression molding and rubber molding.

Our Mission

To partner with our customers to deliver a high quality, competitively priced, custom molded plastic components in an environment where you: Say what you do;. Do what you say, and; believe that every part counts.

Our Values

We will provide manufacturing solutions with speed, flexibility, quality and value.
Speed when solving problems
Flexibility when meeting their unique needs
Quality in design and materials found in all our products
Value for their dollars spent

Experience

We have been in business for over 45 years and has been involved with countless successful plastic projects from concept through high volume production.

Expertise

Our personnel at Southwest Plastics have worked in the plastics industry for many years and amassed a level of experience and creativity that is brought to bear on all projects new or old.

Flexibility

We maintain a system that is flexible enough to respond to the changing and varied requirements presented by our customers.

Integrity

We do business in a completely above-the-board manner that keeps our customers satisfied and coming back to Southwest Plastics project after project.

Practicality

As a result of the many years of experience we have, we are able to offer a high degree of common sense to new projects to come up with practical as well as technical solutions.

Quality

Our quality and manufacturing management system is certified to the requirements of AS9100

Service

Superior service at all levels of customer interaction is the key element that keeps our customers satisfied and returning time and time again. It is our goal to become an extension of our customer’s business and be, in essence, your “plastics partner”.

Stability

In the more than 45 years we have been in business, we have grown steadily at a managed rate to ensure ongoing viability and financial health.

Technology

As the plastics industry has evolved, many technological processing improvements have been innovated to enhance the manufacturing process. We continuously invest to improve our capabilities to ensure we are at the forefront of developments in our industry.