Arrowhead primarily sells to industrial clients or other manufacturers who purchase our thermoformed plastic parts or molded fiberglass parts only to resell them later as a stand alone item or part of a larger assembly. Our customers are typically manufacturers of some type of specialty vehicle, piece of equipment or product that gets sold [...]
Since Arrowhead's founding in 1972, we have been designing and molding various thermoformed products for the heavy truck, bus and specialty vehicle industries. Generally speaking, these industries tend to have a need for a variety of different thermoformed parts, but the volume on each one is much smaller compared to that which you would [...]
Whether your part will be made from molded fiberglass or thermoformed plastic, Arrowhead can help you with the product’s development from concept to production and everything in between. Sometimes it's a sketch on a napkin. Sometimes it's a sophisticated CAD model. Sometimes it's a previously produced prototype. Regardless of where you are in the [...]
Rut Roh Raggy, Our Dog has been Found… In life, sometimes things you have lost have a way of returning back to you. My grandfather had a business called Art Forms where he produced sculptures and artwork for various companies, municipalities and organizations. His work can still be seen all over Indiana, surrounding states [...]
The design phase of the product development process is probably one of the most important, if not THE most important part of the product life cycle. Without a good design, a molded fiberglass or thermoformed plastic part can be expensive to tool up, expensive to build, expensive to ship and expensive to modify. Conversely, [...]
When it comes to putting the finishing touches on your company’s product, multiple variables usually come into play. The finishing touches need to provide a look that fits your company’s image as well provide any functionality that may be required. Covers, guarding, skins, etc are usually utilized for this purpose. Many times these guards [...]
Customers of Arrowhead Plastic Engineering benefit from decreased lead times and increased precision thanks to the company's five 5-axis CNC routers. All of the CNCs have a 60” x 120” bed. The machines are capable of cutting hard woods, low and high density tooling board, low density foam blocks and other advanced tooling materials, [...]
Quick Summary: By utilizing our FARO Arm, Arrowhead can offer precision custom molded fiberglass and thermoplastic parts to our customers with even the tightest of tolerances. The FARO Arm allows for precision measuring, laser scanning and CAD generation, reverse engineering and physical part to CAD model comparisons. Whether it be measuring tooling for accuracy, [...]
There are many different methods a company can utilize to mold a fiberglass part. Some of these include but are not limited to: hand layup, spray-up, closed cavity bag molding, RTM, RTM lite, compression molding and cold molding. Each process has its own set of unique advantages and disadvantages. Please click the following link [...]
