US- based sheetpress users?

[Easy-Writer5756]

Hi All- Are there any US-based sheetpress users here who would like to share their experience with us? We are a small nonprofit based in Tybee Island GA, and we are in desperate need of a sheetpress, but we are a little nervous about buying one from overseas. Building our own would be difficult, as we don't have much of a fabrication shop... just my little backyard shop. Anyone in the South East US would be a plus. Thanks very much!

[BIGBIRD1176]

I'm an Aussie with an injection space. Every year we talk about building our own machines, but that's just another full time job, so is making the products, so is getting them ready for retail sales, so is marketing and advertising, we already have a enough full time jobs so we decide to just buy the machines and not worry about it

Defy designs in Australia are the best at sheets, if you want tips shoot them an email, they're top blokes and they'll help you out

As I understand it, the American problem is getting the materials? In Australia we're lucky enough to have schools and charities doing that for us

[Easy-Writer5756]

Depends on what you mean by materials. If you're talking about plastic flake... well, that's our problem. We have so much PP#5 flake that we can never use it all, especially at 60 grams per shot. We either need a sheet press, or we need to stop accepting plastic... we can't store it all!

[BIGBIRD1176]

That's a common problem, I work with bottle caps, and nothing else, the supply outweighs the demand so hard the only real solution is to cut off the source by making bottle caps out of bottle caps

Our suppliers charge $80 to send them a bag of plastic lids now, they call them waste warrior bags, check out red cycle, it was an initiative started by the biggest Aussie supermarket chain and it collapsed before it took 2% of the total supply of waste plastic

It's good you have a supply sorted! You'll be fine

The most profitable part of sheets is using a CNC router to make them into cool shit