About Us

Our Unique Blend of Products
Very few competitors in our markets offer the type of products that we sell, so customers must generally buy from multiple online suppliers to outfit their projects, where we strive for a "total solution".

The In-Store Experience
Our team has application and product knowledge that is second to none. While it takes decades to master the entire product line, our goal is teach our staff how to decode and interpret the very technical complexities of the products we carry, and reduce the risks for our customers when using these materials. We maximize your opportunity for a successful project.

We Solve Sourcing Problems
Customers come to us when they do not know how to find specific items in our areas of authority. We fulfill a sourcing/procurement role for customers who do not have the time or resources to find what they need through alternate sources. We are the solutions company with the unique experience to find what they need from our extensive supplier network and back-catalogue of products.

Our business was started in Victoria, BC Canada by two WWII Veterans just after the war ended. While serving in the Canadian Air Force, these two had witnessed firsthand, the development of Industrial Plastics in the aviation industry as a space-age construction material. So, when they returned from the war, they opened a small plastics fabrication shop on Store St. in Victoria, BC. Since that time, we have grown to 7 Western Canadian locations in British Columbia and Alberta and a 24/7 E-Commerce portal serving all North America.

Each of our locations is a stocking industrial warehouse for our wholesale customers, acting as your procurement and logistics partner. If you cannot find what you need in our extensive catalogue, our Business Solutions team is happy to help source to your specifications.

We also pride ourselves for offering a full-service fabrication capability at every location, for your cut-to-size plastic stock shapes, as well as bending, forming, bonding, welding nearly anything made from industrial plastics.

Open to the Public: While the heart of our company is industrial wholesale, we have always supported the residential DIY customers, pro-hobbyists, and aspiring artists. All of our retail showrooms are open to the general public, and our staff are trained to help you understand your product goals so that we can best direct you to the products that will bring you the most success. DIY Done Differently Industrial Plastics & Paints offers product solutions that you cannot find elsewhere with the experience to help ensure you succeed every time.

Over the years, Industrial Plastics & Paints has continually expanded our product line to help our customers solve problems, partnering with top-quality brands such as IPS/Weld-On, Benjamin Moore, SystemThree, Interlux Paints, SmoothOn, West Systems, Liquid Rubber, Coosa Marine, and many, many more.

The core of While these products have been readily available to customers in the vicinity of our Western Canadian stores, customers that are further afield have expressed frustrations at not having easy access to our fantastic product line. So in 2012, we introduced our eCommerce site to provide access to customers.