Plastic · Material Overview

HIPS

High Impact Polystyrene — Affordable, formable thermoplastic for lightweight indoor covers, packaging, and display components.

Advantages

Limitations

Compatible Processes

Melt resin pellets and inject into a closed mold to produce repeatable parts.

Heat plastic sheet, form it over or into a tool, cool, then trim.

Force material through a die to create continuous profiles later cut to length.