Plastic Compounding
From specialty color to unique performance & UL requirements, our knowledgeable staff works with you to design the ideal material for your application. Our focus is in ABS, Polycarbonates, & Polycarbonate Alloys.
Designed to Outperform Traditional ABS Flame Retardants
We can help you navigate ongoing supply chain disruptions and cost volatility associated with ABS flame retardant materials with PC/ABS flame retardant compounds.
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Star introduces PFAS free PC compounds
Star now offers polycarbonate products with PFAS free formulations.
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Your Custom Compound Specialist
With accomplished full service laboratories to develop, test, and formulate custom plastic compounds, Star Plastics offers high quality custom color compounding {known for lot-to-lot consistency}, tolling, sourcing and supplying polymers.
LEARN MOREYour Partner for Sustainable Business
To help our customers reach their environmental goals, we provide various polymer grades with reliable, certified recycled content classifications and percentages, including pre-consumer, post-consumer, ITE, and ocean-bound. With manufacturing capabilities in North America and Asia, we offer custom-engineered solutions globally.
LEARN MOREYour Source for Tolling Services
We focus on supporting our customers who need to make modifications to their material through many plastic services including toll processing.
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Comprehensive Capabilities
Star Plastics® is a dependable compounder of engineering-grade thermoplastics headquartered in Ravenswood, West Virginia, but with facilities around the world. We are a full-service plastics company known for custom color accuracy, UL-recognized products, and the ability to produce batches of any size. No job is too big or too small!
Tolling Services
Star is your one-stop shop for all toll compounding and plastic processing needs. With over 35 years of tolling experience and a technically robust facility, we’re here to take your material to the next level.
Polymer Sourcing
Polymervault, the material marketing division of Star Plastics®, is dedicated to sourcing and supplying a variety of materials to the market. Resins of any grade or form are available.
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The Star Plastics Difference
Custom Compound
Specialists
With accomplished full-service laboratories to develop, test, and formulate custom plastic compounds, Star Plastics offers high-quality custom color compounding (known for lot-to-lot consistency), tolling services, and polymer sourcing.
Real Time In-Process Monitoring
Star Plastics ensures that quality is met with thorough in-process monitoring. We create material that requires minimal changes in all physical properties, color, and flame retardancy, with Star team members monitoring these properties throughout the entire run.
High-Quality, High- Performance Materials
We’ve averaged a material satisfaction rate of 98.6% over the past three years, and our lab and manufacturing team leaders meet weekly to discuss continuous ways to improve. In an ever-changing market, our dedication to quality gives us a competitive advantage.
On-Site Analytical
Lab Testing
Our on-site lab allows for quick, accurate testing that we stand behind. We analyze inbound feedstocks, test material during production, and verify the finished product before it is released for shipment. At Star, thorough testing is key to our success.
Quality & Consistency
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Quality & Consistency
Our full-service, on-site lab delivers quick and accurate testing that results in industry-leading satisfaction levels.
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Quality Testing
Professional and precise testing is the basis of our past success and indicative of our future growth.
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Consistent Products
Rigorous in-process testing and a continuous improvement mindset ensure we deliver a consistent, high-quality product every time.
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Sustainable Business
We offer up to 100% recycled-content materials, optimizing plastic to meet your environmental goals and prevent further pollution of the ocean and overcrowding of landfills.
LATEST NEWS
Read the latest news about Star Plastics™ along with industry news right here.
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June 9, 2025
Price Increases, Volatile Commodity Resins and Shipping Concerns
From Chuck Hoop, Business Director, Star Plastics Pricing Update – May There were eight price increases noted with Covestro announcing a 15 CPP increase in mid-May (notably...
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June 3, 2025
Star Plastics® Offers Reliable Alternative to ABS FR Amid Global Supply and Cost Challenges
Millwood, West Virginia – May 22, 2025 - Star Plastics®, a leading custom compounder of engineering-grade thermoplastics, is helping manufacturers navigate ongoing supply...
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May 15, 2025
Star Plastics Trails Debut in Ravenswood, W.Va.
Millwood, West Virginia – May 15, 2025 - Star Plastics®, an industry leading custom compounder of engineering-grade thermoplastics, has become the namesake for Star Plastics...
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