Oxford Polymers

History

1988 - Oxford Polymers® begins operations as a marketing and sales organization specializing in selling engineering thermoplastics throughout the northeastern part of the United States.

1991 – Oxford Polymers® moves to a larger 20,000 square foot facility in Middletown Ct. to warehouse materials for its growing customer base.

1993 - Oxford Polymers® establishes in house laboratory to test and inspect all materials.

1994 - Oxford Polymers® establishes standard product line of common engineered thermoplastics. This product line is manufactured at various approved subcontract manufacturers.

1995 – Oxford Polymers® becomes approved supplier to GM/Delphi and expands customer base outside the Northeast.

1997 - Oxford Polymers® relocates to 50,000 square foot plant at present site in New Britain, CT and begins in house extrusion by purchasing 2 single screw extruders. Oxford Polymers® achieves ISO9001 quality registration. All production and testing performed at Oxford Polymers® falls under new quality standard.

1998 - Oxford Polymers® broadens standard product line offerings to include highly reinforced compounds. Oxford Polymers® introduces Oxnilon, our brand name for nylon 6 and 66 products. Oxford Polymers® purchases its first production twin screw extruder.

2000 - Oxford Polymers® Performance Materials is spun out as a stand-alone corporation to specialize in OXPEEK compounds for body implant applications.

2002 - Oxford Polymers® doubles plant size to 100,000 square feet to house additional compounding equipment along with close loop recycling machinery.

2003 - Oxford Polymers® purchases competitive compounder including equipment and customers.

2004 - Oxford Polymers® doubles twin screw compounding capacity with new production extruder.

2005 - Oxford Polymers® enhances capability to reinforce most engineering grade plastics with up to 60% short glass fibers and starts to compete for long glass fiber applications.

2007 - Oxford Polymers® broadens product offerings in high heat alloys with various base resins including PEI, PPS and PPA.

2009 - Oxford Polymers® launches post-consumer based compounds to support growing requests from green market opportunities.

2011 - Oxford Polymers® increases twin screw capacity by 35% adding 7M pounds of production as well as increasing demetalizing and grinding capability to our recycling operations.

2012 -  Oxford Polymers® adds ISO testing capability & doubles blending capacity

2013 -  Oxford Polymers® increases extrusion capacity by 8M pounds with purchase  of new 72mm twin compounding line, and installation of second bulk  loading station.

2014- Oxford Polymers® adds a high temperature extrusion line to increase capacity for small lots and custom colors of materials such as PEI, PPS, PEEK, PPSU & Polysulfones.

2015- Oxford Polymers increases its development capacity by adding our 6th twin screw extrusion line. Oxford becomes an approved supplier to TRW Automotive.

2016- Oxford Polymers attains multiple plastic compound approvals at Fiat Chrysler (FCA). Oxford commercializes first large volume program with Schick Razors/Edgewell.

2018: Oxford marks our 30^th anniversary of being in business.

2020: COVID: Oxford makes major improvements and upgrades in plant capability and capacity during automotive shutdown.

2021: Oxford purchases a new 75mm twin screw compounding line to be operational by the 4^th quarter, bringing our total number of extrusion lines to nine.