About Us
OUR MISSION
Central Plastics’ mission is to be a profitable company that produces high quality custom extrusions at a competitive price. We strive to achieve market leadership by exceeding customer expectations and out-performing competitors in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
Owners Chester Houghton, Dennis Houghton, Mark Houghton, and Kent Houghton have all been in the custom profile business for more than 30 years, with Chester founding the company in 1968.
MATERIALS
With our in-house die shop, we can easily create customized shapes for products to fit your exact specifications.
CPI Extrudes:
- Flexible Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
- Rigid Polyvinyl Chloride (RPVC)
- Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
- Polypropylene (PP)
- Santoprene Rubber (TPE)
- Vyram Rubber (TPE)
- High Heat Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
- Polyurethane (PU)
- PVC-NITRILE Rubber
- EPDM (limited markets)
- Various TPE’s and High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
- Flexible PVC
- Clear Flexible PVC
- Rigid PVC
- Clear Rigid PVC
- High Heat Rigid PVC
- CPVC
- LDPE
- HDPE
- Polypropylene
- Santoprene™
- TPV
- Alcryn™
- Polystyrene
- ASA
- Polyurethrane
- PVC-Nitrile
- Polykeytone
- Kostrate
- ABS
- Advex™

OUR HISTORY
Central Plastics Inc. was founded more than 50 years ago in 1968, by Chester Houghton and his two partners.
CPI started out with two extruders and three employees in less than 5,000 square feet of production and warehousing space.
CPI now occupies over 210,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehousing with 47 main extrusion machines and 21 co-extruders. We are in operation twenty-four hours a day, five days a week, with over 200 employees.
The Houghton family still owns and operates all facets of the business, which is still in the same location where it all began in 1968, right in the "Heart of Kansas."