For over 50 years, Starplast is able to provide any thermoformed item, transparent or opaque, from prototype to small and medium series, for any industry (aeronautics, automotive, ropeways, vehicle signage, various industries…).
Specialist of thermoplastics thermoforming transparents (polycarbonate, PMMA, PETC) and small and medium series.
Starplast is located in Ester Technopole since March 2009 in a contemporary building of 8000 m² specially thought and adapted for our activities.
Company founded in 1965, based in Limoges (87)
Staff: 42 people
Turnover: 4,555 KE
Share of the export in turnover: 25%
Managerial commitments :
- Maintain an efficient organization to always satisfy the customer
- Focus our investments to maintain and improve our means of production
- Ensuring the profitability of our company
- Maintain an effective quality control system
- Being a socially responsible company, respectful of standards, working conditions and legal obligations
Starplast was acquired in june 2020by Vitalo Group.
In 1936, Vitalo started in West Flanders as a producer of organic sponge which gave its name « vite à l’eau »
Rapidly the diversification in thermoforming plastic sheets took place and became the main activity
For years, the company produced thermoformed products as main activity and main focus, and – next to it - insulating products as a kind of opportunistic approach and without dedicated focus and people. Indeed,
In 2019, together with the acquisition of Starplast in France, important strategic decisions have been taken to give the company a new pus.
Vitalo Group currently generates a turnover of 55 million euros on 5 sites in Europe and China. Starplast has thus become the third brand of the Vitalo Group, after Insulo and Vitalo.
Vitalo web site: https://www.vitalo.net/
Obtaining in January 2012 the Airbus certification for the manufacture of polycarbonate parts. Starplast manufactures thermoformed covers for the cockpits and cabins of many civil and military aircraft manufacturers (Airbus, Dassault Aviation and Eurocopter qualification). Starplast is an expert in the processing of polycarbonates and other aeronautical materials. His mastery of the digital chain, the file of the part to realize until the trimming and the assembly of the parts, makes it possible to answer the most demanding specifications.
