Custom plastic molding and manufacturing for pet care products, including bowls, food containers, carriers, grooming tools, and toys

Custom Plastic Molding & Manufacturing for Pet Care Products

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding Corp. provides custom plastic molding, tooling, engineering, prototyping, custom plastic and metal parts manufacturing, assembly and secondary manufacturing services for pet product companies, pet care brands, veterinary product manufacturers and OEMs throughout California and across the United States.

With more than 40 years of manufacturing experience and ISO 9001:2015, AS9100 Rev D and ISO 13485:2016 certifications, Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding supports pet product development from concept and prototype through tooling, production molding, decorating, assembly, packaging and ongoing production.

Our manufacturing capabilities include plastic injection molding, blow molding, liquid silicone rubber (LSR) injection molding, thermoforming, vacuum forming, rotational molding, mold and tooling manufacturing, 3D printing and rapid prototyping, custom plastic and metal parts manufacturing, mechanical assembly, cable assembly, ultrasonic welding, pad printing and other value-added secondary services.

Whether the project involves feeding systems, grooming products, toys, pet carriers, veterinary products, storage containers, packaging or smart pet devices, Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding can help evaluate the manufacturing process, tooling approach and material best suited to the application.

Custom Manufacturing for Pet Product OEMs & Brands

Pet products must combine durability, safety, appearance, comfort, easy cleaning and competitive manufacturing costs.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding works with established pet brands, startups, inventors, product developers and OEM manufacturers that require custom plastic, silicone or multi-component pet products.

Our manufacturing support can include:

Product Concept → Engineering Review → DFM → Material Selection → 3D Printing / Rapid Prototyping → Mold & Tool Manufacturing → Sampling → Production Molding → Decorating & Secondary Operations → Assembly → Inspection → Packaging

This integrated approach can help customers reduce supplier complexity and improve communication as a new pet product moves from development into production.

Cleanroom Manufacturing

Controlled production environments designed to meet strict cleanliness and contamination standards.

Medical-Grade Materials

Experience with resins suited for biocompatibility, sterilization, and regulatory compliance.

Precision & Consistency

Tight-tolerance molding ensures reliable, repeatable parts for critical medical applications.

Quality-Driven Processes

Strict quality control ensures every component meets performance and industry standards.

Plastic Injection Molding for Pet Products

Custom plastic injection molding is well suited for producing durable, repeatable and attractive pet product components in a wide range of production volumes.

Potential applications include:

  • Pet food bowls
  • Water bowls
  • Automatic feeder components
  • Slow-feeder components
  • Treat dispensers
  • Pet water fountain components
  • Litter-box accessories
  • Litter scoop components
  • Leash handles
  • Collar hardware
  • Harness components
  • Grooming tool housings
  • Brush and comb components
  • Nail-care product housings
  • Pet toy components
  • Chew-toy components
  • Pet door components
  • Carrier components
  • Crate hardware
  • Waste-bag dispenser components
  • Training product components
  • Medication dispenser housings
  • Pet wearable housings
  • GPS tracker housings
  • Smart collar components
  • Pet monitoring device housings
  • Custom pet accessories

Injection molding can also incorporate insert molding, overmolding and soft-touch materials for products requiring metal inserts, ergonomic grips or multiple material properties.

Blow Molding for Pet Care Containers & Packaging

Custom blow molding can manufacture hollow pet products, bottles, containers and reservoirs.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding supports extrusion blow molding (EBM), injection blow molding (IBM) and injection stretch blow molding (ISBM).

Pet care applications may include:

  • Pet shampoo bottles
  • Conditioner bottles
  • Grooming product containers
  • Pet supplement bottles
  • Treat containers
  • Food storage containers
  • Portable pet water bottles
  • Travel water containers
  • Cleaning product bottles
  • Odor-control product bottles
  • Veterinary care containers
  • Pet care dispensers
  • Custom hollow pet products
  • Pet product packaging

Blow molded components can also receive trimming, leak testing, labeling, printing, assembly and packaging depending on project requirements.

Liquid Silicone Rubber Molding for Pet Products

Liquid silicone rubber is increasingly used in pet products requiring flexibility, durability, sealing or soft-touch characteristics.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding’s LSR molding capabilities can support products such as:

  • Flexible pet bowls
  • Feeding mats
  • Slow-feeder inserts
  • Silicone pet toy components
  • Flexible seals
  • Gaskets
  • Dispenser valves
  • Soft-touch grips
  • Grooming tool inserts
  • Protective covers
  • Flexible wearable components
  • Pet-care device seals
  • Vibration-dampening components

LSR can also be combined with rigid plastic components when a product requires both structural support and flexible functionality.

Thermoforming & Vacuum Forming for Pet Products

Thermoforming and vacuum forming are economical manufacturing options for larger or thinner-wall pet products and packaging components.

Applications may include:

  • Pet carrier liners
  • Crate trays
  • Feeding trays
  • Pet product organizers
  • Storage trays
  • Grooming trays
  • Veterinary trays
  • Protective packaging
  • Retail packaging inserts
  • Product-display trays
  • Custom pet product packaging
  • Formed enclosure components

Thermoforming can be especially useful for larger components or production volumes where injection molding tooling may not provide the best economics.

Rotational Molding for Large Pet Products

Rotational molding is well suited for durable, large or hollow pet products.

Potential applications include:

  • Dog houses
  • Outdoor pet shelters
  • Large pet feeding stations
  • Kennels
  • Transport containers
  • Large pet carriers
  • Feed storage bins
  • Pet food containers
  • Waste collection containers
  • Outdoor pet product housings
  • Large storage products
  • Commercial pet-care equipment
  • Durable recreational pet products

Rotational molding can produce seamless, rugged components with integrated handles, mounting features and other molded-in details.

Pet Product Mold & Tool Manufacturing

Successful pet product manufacturing begins with properly engineered tooling.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding provides mold and tool manufacturing support for injection molding, blow molding, LSR molding, thermoforming, vacuum forming and rotational molding.

Tooling support can include:

  • Design for Manufacturability
  • Mold Flow Analysis where appropriate
  • Mold design
  • Prototype tooling
  • Production tooling
  • Injection mold manufacturing
  • LSR mold manufacturing
  • Blow mold manufacturing
  • Thermoforming tooling
  • Vacuum forming tooling
  • Rotational molding tooling
  • Mold sampling
  • Tool qualification
  • Engineering changes
  • Mold transfer
  • Mold repair
  • Mold maintenance
  • Mold refurbishment

Combining tooling and production support helps reduce communication gaps between mold design and actual manufacturing.

Engineering, DFM & Pet Product Prototyping

New pet products often require design iterations before production tooling is finalized.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding supports product developers through engineering review and 3D printing and rapid prototyping.

Early manufacturing involvement can help evaluate:

  • Wall thickness
  • Draft angles
  • Parting lines
  • Gate locations
  • Undercuts
  • Snap-fit features
  • Living hinges
  • Sealing features
  • Overmolding
  • Insert molding
  • Product ergonomics
  • Surface texture
  • Assembly requirements
  • Material selection
  • Shrinkage and warpage
  • Moldability
  • Production cost

Rapid prototypes can allow customers to evaluate appearance, fit, ergonomics and basic functionality before investing in full production tooling.

Materials for Durable Pet Products

Pet products can be exposed to chewing, impact, cleaning chemicals, water, outdoor use, repeated washing and daily handling.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding works with a broad range of materials based on product performance and manufacturing requirements, including:

  • Polypropylene (PP)
  • High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
  • Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
  • PET
  • ABS
  • Polycarbonate
  • PC/ABS
  • Nylon
  • Glass-Filled Nylon
  • Acetal / POM
  • TPE
  • TPU
  • Liquid Silicone Rubber
  • Specialty engineering-grade materials

Material selection can consider:

  • Impact resistance
  • Flexibility
  • Chemical resistance
  • Temperature performance
  • Water resistance
  • UV exposure
  • Wear resistance
  • Surface feel
  • Color
  • Appearance
  • Cleaning requirements
  • Product-use environment

Where a pet product may contact food or water, material requirements should be evaluated against the specific product application and applicable regulatory requirements.

Color, Texture & Appearance for Consumer Pet Products

Pet products are often highly visual consumer products sold in competitive retail and e-commerce markets.

Color consistency, texture, branding and surface appearance can therefore be important alongside mechanical performance.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding can support appropriate projects with:

  • Molded-in color
  • Color concentrate or precolored resin
  • Surface texturing
  • Pad printing
  • Hot stamping
  • Label application
  • Heat-transfer decoration
  • Painting
  • Coating
  • Branding
  • Product identification

Pad printing can be used for logos, product markings, graphics and other decorative features on suitable molded components.

Plastic & Metal Components for Pet Product Assemblies

Modern pet products increasingly incorporate molded plastics with metal hardware, cables, sensors, electronics, motors or mechanical components.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding can support custom plastic and metal parts manufacturing for more complex pet-product assemblies.

Potential examples include:

  • Automatic feeders
  • Water fountains
  • Smart pet doors
  • GPS trackers
  • Smart collars
  • Pet cameras
  • Electronic training products
  • Grooming devices
  • Veterinary equipment
  • Pet monitoring products

Combining molded components with machined metal parts, inserts and assembly services can help customers consolidate suppliers.

Mechanical & Cable Assembly

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding offers assembly support for pet products requiring multiple components.

Capabilities can include:

  • Mechanical assembly
  • Cable assembly
  • Hardware installation
  • Insert installation
  • Plastic-to-metal assembly
  • Fastening
  • Ultrasonic welding
  • Heat staking
  • Heat insertion
  • Adhesive bonding
  • Component integration
  • Subassembly
  • Final assembly
  • Inspection
  • Packaging

This is especially valuable for connected pet products, automatic feeding equipment, grooming devices and other products requiring plastic housings combined with mechanical or electrical components.

Ultrasonic Welding & Plastic Joining

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding provides ultrasonic welding for suitable thermoplastic pet product components.

Applications may include:

  • Enclosed housings
  • Water-resistant assemblies
  • Feeder components
  • Grooming devices
  • Pet electronics housings
  • Fluid-handling products
  • Container assemblies

Additional joining methods can include mechanical fastening, heat staking, heat insertion and adhesive bonding.

Veterinary & Pet Health Product Manufacturing

The pet-care market increasingly includes veterinary, diagnostic, monitoring and medication-related products requiring greater dimensional control and manufacturing discipline.

Potential veterinary applications include:

  • Medication dispenser components
  • Veterinary instrument housings
  • Diagnostic device components
  • Pet monitoring housings
  • Wearable veterinary devices
  • Fluid-handling components
  • Laboratory pet-care products
  • Sample-handling components
  • Veterinary packaging components

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding Corp. is ISO 13485:2016 certified and offers both Class 10,000 / ISO Class 7 and Class 100,000 / ISO Class 8 cleanroom environments for qualifying products requiring controlled manufacturing.

Our cleanroom molding capabilities and clean room assembly services can support appropriate veterinary and pet-health applications.

Cleanroom Manufacturing & Assembly

Some veterinary, diagnostic, pet-health or high-purity pet products may require contamination-controlled manufacturing.

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding provides:

  • Class 10,000 / ISO Class 7 cleanroom environments
  • Class 100,000 / ISO Class 8 cleanroom environments
  • Cleanroom plastic molding
  • Clean room assembly
  • Controlled product handling

These capabilities expand the range of pet-health and veterinary projects that can be supported beyond conventional consumer pet products.

ISO-Certified Quality Systems

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding Corp. maintains:

  • ISO 9001:2015
  • AS9100 Rev D
  • ISO 13485:2016

These quality systems support disciplined production, inspection, documentation and repeatability.

Pet-product companies can benefit from the same manufacturing systems used to support demanding industrial, aerospace and medical programs.

Learn more about our quality systems.

Pet Product Manufacturing in California & Across the USA

Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding Corp. is headquartered in Riverside, California and supports pet product companies throughout:

  • Riverside
  • Inland Empire
  • Los Angeles
  • Orange County
  • San Diego
  • Southern California
  • Northern California
  • California statewide
  • The entire United States

Companies searching for a pet products manufacturer in California, pet product injection molding company, custom pet supplies manufacturer or pet products contract manufacturer in the USA can work with Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding from development through production.

Why Pet Product Companies Choose Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding

Multiple Manufacturing Processes
Injection molding, blow molding, LSR molding, thermoforming, vacuum forming and rotational molding support a wide range of pet products.

Prototype Through Production
Engineering, rapid prototyping, tooling, molding, decorating and assembly can support the complete product-development cycle.

Mold & Tool Manufacturing
Tooling support for multiple molding processes helps simplify product-launch programs.

Consumer Product Finishing
Pad printing, labeling, surface finishing, color and decorating capabilities support brand-oriented pet products.

Plastic & Metal Parts Manufacturing
Multi-component pet products can incorporate molded plastics, machined components, hardware and other components.

Assembly Services
Mechanical assembly, cable assembly, ultrasonic welding, heat staking and other secondary operations can reduce supplier count.

Cleanroom Capabilities
ISO Class 7 and ISO Class 8 environments support qualifying veterinary and pet-health products requiring controlled manufacturing.

ISO-Certified Quality Systems
ISO 9001:2015, AS9100 Rev D and ISO 13485:2016 certifications demonstrate established manufacturing and quality controls.

40+ Years of Manufacturing Experience
Decades of plastics manufacturing experience support both emerging product companies and established OEM programs.

Frequently Asked Questions About Pet Product Manufacturing

What pet products can be injection molded?
Injection molding can manufacture bowls, feeder components, treat dispensers, leash handles, grooming tool housings, litter-box accessories, toys, carrier components, smart pet-device housings and many other pet products.

Can Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding help develop a new pet product?
Yes. Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding can support engineering review, DFM, material selection, rapid prototyping, mold manufacturing, production molding, decorating and assembly.

Can you manufacture silicone pet products?
Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding offers liquid silicone rubber molding for suitable applications such as feeding components, flexible inserts, seals, mats, soft-touch parts and other elastomeric pet product components.

Can you manufacture pet shampoo bottles and containers?
Yes. Blow molding can be used for pet shampoo bottles, grooming-product containers, portable water bottles, dispensers and other hollow pet-care packaging.

Do you manufacture molds for pet products?
Yes. Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding provides tooling support for injection molding, LSR molding, blow molding, thermoforming, vacuum forming and rotational molding projects.

Can you assemble finished pet products?
Yes. Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding provides mechanical assembly, cable assembly, ultrasonic welding, heat staking, hardware installation, adhesive bonding and additional secondary
services.

Do you provide cleanroom manufacturing for veterinary pet products?
Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding offers Class 10,000 / ISO Class 7 and Class 100,000 / ISO Class 8 controlled environments for qualifying veterinary, pet-health and other applications requiring cleanroom manufacturing.

Does Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding serve pet-product companies outside California?
Yes. Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding is headquartered in Riverside, California and serves customers throughout California and across the United States.

Request a Quote for Custom Pet Products

Whether you need an injection molded feeder component, blow molded pet-care bottle, LSR feeding product, thermoformed carrier tray, rotational molded pet shelter, custom mold, veterinary component or assembled smart pet product, Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding Corp. can support your program from product development through production.

Contact Hi-Rel Plastics & Molding Corp. to discuss your pet product drawings, CAD files, material requirements, tooling needs and estimated production quantities.

Custom plastic molding and manufacturing for pet care products, including bowls, food containers, carriers, grooming tools, and toys

Plastic Molding Services for Pet Care

Hi-Rel Plastics manufactures precision plastic components for pet care products, supporting everything from part evaluation and prototyping to tooling, production, and secondary operations. Our team works with high-quality materials and functional designs to deliver durable, reliable components for a wide range of pet care applications.

Pet care product components require durability, consistency, and reliable performance to support everyday use and high-volume production. Hi-Rel Plastics produces precision-molded parts designed to provide dimensional consistency, impact resistance, chemical resistance, and long-term functionality across a wide range of pet care and grooming applications.

With experience in advanced engineering resins and quality-driven manufacturing, we help pet product companies, OEMs, and consumer brands produce reliable molded components that meet both functional and production requirements.

Below are some pet care industry applications of molded plastic components:

Injection Molding

  • Pet feeder components, leash handles, litter box accessories, treat dispensers, grooming tool housings, collars, pet toy components, and durable pet product parts designed for repeated consumer use

Blow Molding

  • Pet shampoo bottles, portable water bottles for pets, food storage containers, collapsible travel bowls, fluid dispensing containers, and lightweight pet care packaging products

Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) Molding

  • Pet feeding mat components, chew toy inserts, slow feeder elements, flexible seals, soft-touch grips, and comfort-focused pet product components requiring flexibility and durability

Thermoforming / Vacuum Forming

  • Pet carrier liners, feeding trays, storage organizers, packaging inserts, and custom formed packaging components used for pet products and retail distribution

Rotational Molding

  • Pet houses, large pet feeding stations, outdoor storage bins, waste collection containers, kennels, and durable transport containers used in residential and commercial pet care environments

Cleanroom Manufacturing

Controlled production environments designed to meet strict cleanliness and contamination standards.

Medical-Grade Materials

Experience with resins suited for biocompatibility, sterilization, and regulatory compliance.

Precision & Consistency

Tight-tolerance molding ensures reliable, repeatable parts for critical medical applications.

Quality-Driven Processes

Strict quality control ensures every component meets performance and industry standards.