US shape distributor opens Taiwan location

Published: October 29, 2012 6:00 am ET

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FULLERTON, CALIF. (Oct. 29, 12 p.m. ET) – Industrial shape supplier Professional Plastics Inc. has opened a new location in the Hsinchu area of northern Taiwan. The warehouse is the 17th for Fullerton-based company, and its second in Asia.

The facility will maintain an inventory of high-performance engineering plastics used primarily by customers in the semiconductor and flat panel display industries.

The company distributes sheet, rods, tubing and film made from engineering plastics including PPS, PEEK and fluoropolymers.


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