About Our Company

Phil Horn started Horn Plastics in 1983 to provide slippery, nonstick surfaces for truck boxes to prevent the build up of sticky products like mud and dirt while offering a workable and affordable alternative to steel or aluminum in high wear situations.

Super-Slide® plastic liners eliminate sticking, reduce wear, protect equipment and are UV stabilized to extend the life of the liner when exposed to direct sunlight. To make them even more efficient, Super-Slide® plastic liners have silicone added to increase the slipperiness and release characteristics of the plastic.

As a liner manufacturer, Horn Plastic’s two butt-fusion welders make faster lead-times possible and can seamlessly weld two Super-Slide® plastic liners together simultaneously to make one sheet up to 13 feet wide and over 100 feet long (4 meters wide by 30 meters long). Super-Slide® plastic liners can also be cut down into narrow wear strips. Dumping heights can be reduced as much as 30% because of the effectiveness of Super-Slide® liners.

Horn noticed the sticky mud that was making it difficult for drivers to unload their truck boxes. After seeing this problem first hand he immediately understood how important the principles of quality, service and continuous advancement are to customers.

Valuable trips to real world working conditions while he was providing face to face service to his customers often resulted in new ideas and applications for a growing list of problems. Quality, service and continuous advancement continued to be the leading values for HPI as Super-Slide® became the solution to more and more problems in an expanding number of markets.

To accompany this growth, products specially suited for the market were introduced. Starting the line of Super-Slide® products was Blue Stripe®, our original medium duty HMW (High Molecular Weight) plastic liner. The next introduction was Blue Iron®. Wearing four times longer than HMW liners, Blue Iron® is a heavy duty UHMW (Ultra High Molecular Weight) plastic liner. Next, Red Hot® UHMW plastic liner was introduced. Red Hot® is specifically designed to give longer wear and non-stick properties to applications with temperatures up to 400°F/204°C. Made from virgin UHMW, Red Hot yields an even higher wearing ability than typical UHMW plastic liners. Last to be introduced was Yellow Quartz UHMW plastic liner. Yellow Quartz, which is unique to the industry, is offered to customers who want the high wear of a virgin UHMW liner but do not need the high temperature protection that competing virgin UHMW liners have. In our drive for continuous advancement, we took what the customer wanted a step farther by incorporating a quartz additive to make Yellow Quartz the longest wearing UHMW plastic liner.

Horn Plastics provides faster quotes, quicker lead time and more rapid turn around times than our competition, but we are always looking for better ways to serve our customers. Quality, service, and continuous advancement are what the company was founded on and will always be the driving force at HPI.