Capabilities
A complete foam converting plant, one border away
Engineering, cutting, laminating, and sampling under one roof in Tijuana, Baja California — more than a decade serving manufacturers on both sides of the border.
Engineering
Packaging Design & Development
Protective packaging starts with engineering, not cutting. Send us your product, a drawing, or a damage problem — we design the pack around it: material and density selection, cushion thickness, cavity layout, and how it all fits your box or case.
- Material & density selection matched to product weight and fragility
- Cavity and insert design from drawings, samples, or the product itself
- Damage and returns diagnosis — we redesign packs that are failing in transit
- Cost-down redesigns of existing foam packs
- Bilingual engineering support, English and Spanish
Fabrication
CNC Wire, Hot-Wire & Vertical Cutting
Our CNC wire cutters carve complex contours and cavities directly from CAD — no tooling, so prototypes and low-volume runs are fast and economical. Hot-wire and vertical cutters handle sheets, planks, blocks, and straight profiles all day.
- CNC wire cutting from CAD files — complex shapes with no die charge
- Hot-wire cutting for smooth EPS and PE shapes
- Vertical and horizontal cutting for sheets, planks, and blocks
- Tight, repeatable tolerances run after run
Fabrication
Die-Cutting
For repeatable shapes at volume, steel-rule die-cutting is the economical path: one die, thousands of identical parts. We produce and store your dies, so reorders run without tooling charges.
- Steel-rule die-cutting for high-volume repeatable parts
- Kiss-cut and through-cut capabilities
- Die storage and management — tooling charges waived on reorders
- Best per-piece economics from roughly 1,000 pieces up
Fabrication
Lamination & Assembly
When one layer isn't enough, we laminate: foam to foam for thickness and multi-density pads, foam to corrugated for structure, and pressure-sensitive adhesive backing for peel-and-stick parts.
- Foam-to-foam lamination for custom thicknesses and multi-density builds
- Foam-laminated corrugated pads and liners
- Pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) backing
- Multi-part assembly and kitting
Service
Quotation, Sampling & Production
Every project moves through the same disciplined loop: quote, sample, validate, produce. You approve a physical sample before production money is spent — and reorders reference your IPS part number, so the part you get is the part you approved.
- Quotes typically within 48 hours
- Physical samples before production commitment
- Catalog part-number system for unambiguous reorders
- Production scheduling aligned to your releases — cross-border logistics handled daily
At a glance
Technical specifications
| Materials | PE, recycled PE, anti-static PE, EPE, XLPE, EVA, PU, EPS |
| Cutting | CNC wire, hot-wire, vertical & horizontal, steel-rule die |
| Lamination | Foam-to-foam, foam-to-corrugated, PSA adhesive backing |
| Product forms | Corner protectors, U-channels, end caps, pads, sheets, tubing, rods, engineered inserts |
| Part numbering | IPS catalog system — form, dimensions (tenths of an inch), material |
| Engineering | Pack design, cavity layout, material & density selection, cost-down redesign |
| Samples | Physical samples cut before production approval |
| Service area | United States and Mexico — plant 25 minutes from the San Diego border |
| Languages | English and Spanish, quotes in USD |