01 · Tool shop
Where molds are cut
Mills, grinders and EDM benches build and maintain the molds that run a few doors down.
Tool shop — mold building and maintenance
Facilities
55,000 square feet, all of it working.
One modern building on Highway 401 houses offices, design rooms, a tool shop and R&D facility, a production division and an integrated materials handling area with three loading bays. Here is the walk-through.
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Cobourg + Querétaro
The building
Everything a part needs, under one roof.
Designed on CAD stations, cut in the CNC machining centres, transferred to production or prototype presses and completed — Protoplast has all the equipment needed to finish your assignment without a subcontractor.
- Floor area
- 55,000 sq ft
- Inside
- Offices · design rooms · tool shop · R&D facility · production division · integrated materials handling
- Loading bays
- Three
- Highway
- On Highway 401 — one hour east of Toronto, five hours west of Montreal
- Air freight
- Ninety minutes from Toronto's international airport
- Export
- Within about two hours of the U.S. border; ships internationally
The plant, photographed
Their floor, their photographs.
Seven frames from inside 210 Willmott Street — nothing staged, nothing from a stock library.
Scroll to cross the plant
02 · CNC
Programmed by day, run at night
Haas VF-3 and VF-4 machining centres with programmable tool changers run lights-out to use every production hour.
Haas VF-3 / VF-4 machining centres
03 · Molding floor
38 to 600 tonnes
16 machines cover the range — straight injection, over-molding, two-component and injection blow molding.
Arburg press — production division
04 · At the press
Finishing on cycle
Operator stations beside the presses do light assembly and finishing while the next shot runs.
Press-side operator station
05 · Parts
Molded, staged, moving
Components flow from press to cell to box inside one materials handling loop.
Assembly cell — molded components
06 · Bench
Hands where they matter
Manual stations handle the work robots shouldn't — inspection, odd fixtures, short runs.
Workstation — production floor
07 · Metrology
Proof, in microns
The CMM room verifies critical dimensions before a first article ever leaves the building.
CMM — metrology room
Visit
Walk it for real.
The plant is ninety minutes from Toronto's airport. A tour takes less time than a bad supplier audit.
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Second plant
Querétaro, since October 2019.
SUR Manufacturing is Protoplast's 12,000 sq ft plant in Querétaro, Mexico, running four new injection molding presses from 80 to 500 tonnes. It has supplied the automotive industry since October 2019 and gives North American customers a second source inside Mexico's assembly corridor.
See it in person
Fifty-five thousand square feet of proof.
Book a plant tour or start with a design review — both begin with the same phone call.