I want to start making and selling HDPE cages

[Angel619392]

While HDPE might be superior(I personally don’t see any groundbreaking upside to it), the bottom line is pvc serves the exact same purposes as HDPE at a cheaper price. Both materials insulate, hold humidity, are easy to clean, easy to work with, and light. I had a Proline cage too and I personally was not impressed. I won’t go into details but I sold it and switched everything over to AP cages. And Ed actually lived about 3 hours from me.

In my opinion, if you go HDPE, make sure you use thick enough material so you have no flex. That was a huge negative on Proline to me. I could literally twist the cage and cause it to shift. But anyways, like I said, I wish you the best on success. Do what you love and you will never fail at it.

To me what worried me is
XPVC can and will off gas at 140 degress so the Chloride (Poly vinyl Chloride) can be toxic not only for the animals but you if you do reach those temperatures... Or if you want Ackies that need 150 degree basking you cannot do it with these cages.
HDPE tolerates 248 before the off gassing happens

Also I plan to offer an HDPE enclosure that is same price or within $50 dollars of AP plastic cages... The only thing stopping somebody from buying a cage made from superior material would be the company... Or in other words reputation, which I want to build by first selling locally and having people come on forums and give their opinions and also making youtube videos of me building/setting them up.... Keeping people updated with how my cages are doing for my animals because its better all around for me to be honest and let you guys know about problems my cages are having through youtube for 2 reasons.
1) You guys know im being honest
2) I do not have to stress or pay extra shipping to get it back and potentially lose business from people

So it really comes down to quality and reputation... If that is equal then it comes down to the superior product... Im basically saying I aim to match the quality of animal plastics and reputation will come through that... But yes I plan to deal locally first... Im ambitious (: