Burnaby, British Columbia
Manufacturing in Burnaby since 1976
Thunderbird Plastics Ltd., 6969 Shirley Avenue. Ten production lines of injection moulding, one family.
By the numbers
- Founded 1976
- Moulding in Burnaby since the first press.
- 10 production lines
- Continuous production across the container range.
- Presses from 380 to 2250 tons
- Five press sizes from small parts to large containers.
- Parts from 60 grams to 8 kilograms
- Crates, trays, lugs, pails, bins, pallets and sleeves.
What the plant does
You can check the plant the way you check a supplier: an address, a founding year, press tonnage, and a phone number someone answers.
Injection moulding is a simple description of a specific capability. The plant runs 10 lines between 380 and 2250 tons, moulding parts from 60 g to 8 kg. That envelope is wide enough to cover a harvest lug and a canning sleeve on the same floor.
Most of what comes off those lines is a reusable container for moving food and materials: harvest, processing, storage and transport. The range is filed by the trade that uses it, and every container page states the dimensions, the load and the freight counts the plant publishes.
The rest is other people's parts, moulded to a drawing, and the take-back loop that turns returned containers back into feedstock.
Made in Burnaby
Every product in the catalogue is moulded at the plant and sold by the family that owns it.
What comes off the lines:
- Harvest crates and berry trays
- Milk crates and bottle crates
- Oyster trays and fishermen's baskets
- Canning sleeves for construction
- Refuse bins and recycling boxes
The sales desk
The desk answers the phone in English, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish.
The same desk sells into Canada, the United States, and Latin America.
The counter at 6969 Shirley Avenue, Burnaby, takes walk-in sales. For quotes and custom work, call 888.778.2473.