Thermoforming

About the Thermoforming Process:

Thermoforming is a process which uses heat and pressure and/or vacuum to form parts from an extruded (flat) sheet of plastic.  In our automated process depicted here, the plastic is drawn from large rolls, heated to its softening temperature, and then formed into the desired shape using an aluminum mold.  It is then cut into individual containers, inspected, stacked, counted, boxed, and shipped.  We specialize in thin gage parts formed from sheet thickness of 4mil to 60mil (.004” to .06” or .1mm to 1.52mm).

In contrast to Injection Molding, Thermoforming Tooling is very affordable.

Videos

Machine Operation Video size: 1.89 MB

Vacuum Forming Video size: 309 KB

Pressure Forming Video size: 208 KB