The Plastic Art Company was established in Leeds in January 1990. Its purpose was to assist the London and Manchester branches in meeting the ever increasing demand in the print industry for document protection and presentation on an industrial scale.

High volume encapsulation was becoming the norm rather than the occasional and this required new high speed equipment. We invested in two auto-lines each capable of producing more than 20,000 finished sheets per day.

At that point the widest sheets we could finish were 40”, but with the emergence of a new breed of wide format inkjet printers there was a demand to wider. To meet this demand we brought in a 50” laminator which is the largest we can do to date.

We continue to invest in technology to meet the demands of the print industry so watch this space!

We now have some of the fastest equipment in the country and are capable of producing finished sheets at rates in excess of 30 metres per minute. Our state of the art machinery and specially developed films and adhesive mean we can produce quality second to none, and turnaround times previously thought impossible. All this is available at prices we were offering several years ago.

As demand for other services has increased we have expanded to accommodate them. We now offer lamination services, (which is different from encapsulation), and we can mount onto Foamex or Foamboard. Our other services include wire binding, hole punching, round cornering, guillotining, shrink wrapping, and creasing.

From humble beginnings in a 600 square foot workshop, to our 1000 square foot workshop a few years later, we have continued to expand. Our need for more space meant it was necessary to acquire adjoining premises taking us to 3000 square foot. Having quickly outgrown these we now have a 5000 square foot production centre, and filling it fast! We will continue to expand to meet the needs of our customers.