Why Tastic Plastics:
It started when an AV installer had a telemedicine project and found a mess of cables from the doctor’s computers, cameras, and imaging devices. They needed a way to gather the cable slack, organized so cables can be traced, followed, replaced individually, and off the floor so the floor can be mopped.
A backboard drilled with holes to accept tie wraps was the answer. But most plastic is too soft to hold the tug of a tie-wrap, or too brittle to be cut without cracking.
Tastic Company formulated the perfect plastic and the ideal form factor.
You fabricate the perfect cable management with Tastic Plastics. Tastic is like lumber – nothing until you make it into what you want. And we found you can make all sorts of things with Tastic! It’s a whole new capability you have with your existing hand tools.
It’s patented, and we’ve been using it exclusively for years. Now it’s available for you to use. We found this stuff is so darn useful that it would be a shame not to. There is nothing else like it. If there was, we would have bought it. Instead we had to create it.
For You
We have found dozens of bespoke ways to use it on the job, in the shop, and around the house.
It’s the ultimate plastic for the handy-man (or handy-woman). It empowers you with the ability to use light weight plastic materials in place of metal or wood, easily shaped with simple hand tools.
It’s a marvelous material to have on hand in your workshop. See what you can invent!
It's Special
Creating the perfect product was quite an ordeal. We are AV installers and handy-person DIY’ers so we know what we wanted from Tastic. We tried every kind of plastic, dozens of different types and formulations; we melted down plastic bins and garbage cans, experimented with blow molds and injection forms, visited with plastics engineers, learned about additives, elastomers, plasticizers, stabilizers, slip compounds … Everything we could find was too brittle to cut and drill without cracking, too weak to hold up long-term to the pull of tight zip-ties, too rigid or too soft. Typical plastic benders are large shop tools like a machine-shop brake, too big to use in the field; not suited for folding an end or a corner as you may need to do in the field for a bespoke solution. Finally we found formulas that work, semi-rigid for the plank and durably flexible for the duct, but we needed a new type of extruder from China. This was during the 2008/2009 recession, and similar to the pandemic recession there were supply chain bottlenecks from China. After months of logistics and customs permits it arrived, then got built and calibrated, and all our homework paid off. It worked, and we got the product we always wanted. Then patenting was a problem. How do you patent a basic raw material that can be made into all kinds of other things, when most of those other things may be similar to existing patented items? Re-writes and appeals (and our amazing patent attorneys) finally got us through a five year ordeal. We gleefully used it ourselves for years, confirming its durability and versatility, busy with our AV practice, and wary of the investment in marketing that a new product launch can require, especially an innovative product like Tastic that is not like anything else you have used before. But we so loved using it ourselves, we felt an obligation to make it available. So we stocked a warehouse and created a world-class organization to promptly fill orders and provide customer support. Ta-da! Now you can just buy the stuff as you need it.
We still skimp on the marketing, so if you found us, congratulations. Please help your friends and colleagues with word-of-mouth, and show them what you can do with Tastic. We won’t skimp on customer service. When you contact us we will be helpful and knowledgeable.
