Custom Plastic Film Manufaturing
Custom-Formulated Films Built for Your Spec
Our engineering team custom-formulates flexible PVC film, clear PVC film, and semi-rigid films to match your performance, appearance, and regulatory requirements. As a leading plastic film manufacturer in the United States, our plant calendars, extrudes, laminates, and slits polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and co-extrudes multi-layer films using PE, PP, EVA, EVOH, COPE, Nylon, Plastomers, and Elastomers to develop solutions across a wide range of applications, from decorative PVC film for surface laminates to medical grade plastic film for sensitive environments.
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Films for Demanding Industries
Achilles serves customers across the medical, pharmaceutical, industrial, and specialty markets. Our portfolio includes:
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Biopharmaceutical packaging film and plastic film for medical devices that meet strict material traceability standards
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PVC film options for customers requiring regulatory compliance documentation
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Co-extruded multi-layer films in PE, PP, EVA, EVOH, COPE, Nylon, Plastomers, and Elastomers for complex performance requirements
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PVC film for reflective tape applications
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Anti-static film for electronics and cleanroom applications
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UV-resistant plastic film for outdoor or light-exposed end uses
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Cold-weather flexible film engineered to maintain performance in low-temperature environments
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Barrier film structures for packaging applications requiring moisture, oxygen, or chemical resistance
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A Domestic Plastic Film Supplier You Can Count On
As a custom plastic film manufacturer, USA-based and operated, Achilles offers the responsiveness and collaboration that overseas sourcing simply cannot. We function as a true OEM plastic film manufacturer, meaning we build to your specifications.
Need a plastic film specification sheet that matches your internal tolerances exactly? Our Quality lab is equipped to measure, quantify, and qualify materials per ASTM and Federal test methods across physical, optical, and regulatory properties.
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From flexible PVC and polyvinyl chloride film to complex co-extruded constructions using materials like EVOH, COPE, and Nylon, Achilles is your single-source plastic film supplier for development, manufacturing, and quality assurance, all under one roof.
Customize your film properties
Finding the right film for your product can be challenging, but we are here to help. Whether you need a custom plastic film for a highly regulated application or a specialized substrate for a unique performance requirement, Achilles pairs you with a team of designers to identify which properties matter most for your end use.​
Learn more about our product capabilities:
Each property has its own capabilities and lab tastings that we perform at Achilles USA.
Learn more by passing your mouse through each capability!
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Color
Product Capabilities: Color and opacity matching to sample, Pantone® or other color values. From tints to opaque, metallic to fluorescent.
Lab Testing: Latest model desktop spectrophotomers and handheld color checking units to verify color on all production runs.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Printability
Product Capabilities: Proven product formulations compatible with all ink types and printing methods for beautiful image quality and ink adhesion.
Lab Testing: UV-cure, gravure, inkjet and screen printing
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
UV (Blocking)
Product Capabilities: Shielding of UV-A,B & C light through any specified wavelength or range.
Lab Testing: Spectrophotomer analysis
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Tensile Properties
Product Capabilities: Products designed to meet any requirements for tensile strength, elongation, modulus and tear strength.
Lab Testing: ASTM, Grave's tear and Elmendorf tear methods and equipment for sample analysis, R&D and lot certification.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Durometer
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Adhesives
Product Capabilities: Extensive plasticzer knowledge and experience to offer adhesive compatibility for short-term, long-term and repositionable applications.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Fire Retardancy
Product Capabilities: Opaque and clear formulations to meet any industry standard FR requirement including CSFM, NFPA 701 and E84.
Lab Testing: Onsite testing for NFPA 701, MVSS-302, CSFM, CPAI-84 and various ASTM and UL. Relationships with 3rd party labs for additional testing.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Dimensions
Product Capabilities: Five (5) calendering lines and secondary processes offer products from 3mil to 120mil thick and 1" to 110" wide.
Lab Testing: Online and offline measurement equipment utilized on every production lot with exceptional tolerance control.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Optics
Product Capabilities: Meet target values for clarity, haze, gloss and light transmission through formulation and embossing.
Lab Testing: Online and lab instrumentation for checking all optical properties.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
UV (Weathering)
Product Capabilities: Tested formulations for short- (<1 year) to long- (5-7 years) term outdoor usage and UV exposure with excellent color fastness and physical property retention.
Lab Testing: UV-con and Xenon arc weathering testing
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Cold Temperature
Product Capabilities: Mutliple formulation options for clear and opaque films meeting temperature ratings down to -60F.
Lab Testing: ASTM, DIN and Federal/Military testing standards available.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Defect Control
Product Capabilities: Optimized mixing, compounding and processing for consistency and minimization of defects such as airmark and contamination.
Lab Testing: Online inspection systems on every manufacturing line with QC inspections performed throughout each lot.
Textures/Embosses
If you want to give your film a texture touch, either to look like leather or to look frosty, we offer 24 different embosses patterns. Check a few of them:
