Advances in materials, tooling, and technology continue to blur the line between the most suitable process and a given application. Thermoforming, of course, can be used to make everything from ...

Asano Laboratories is a manufacturer of thermoforming machines for thermoplastic sheets. Machines such as vacuum forming, pressure and vacuum forming, hot plate (contact) heating-type pressure forming ...

From top: A thermoforming/rapid prototyping machine from Geiss is equipped with a CNC router, a Sinumerik 840D control, and cutter length measuring inside the machine. The speedboat above was formed ...

Vacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates how to do a bare-bones system that can form anything smaller than a dinner plate with little more than a 3D printed fitting ...

BixForm(TM) HiMod Moldable Plastic Sheet is formable under 170 degree tap water or by using hot air and can be formulated to achieve up to a half million flex modulus. Click here for high-resolution ...

Thermoforming research at the IKT plastics technology institute at Stuttgart University is putting the emphasis on upcycling of used material. An "UpFilT" project, developed with 3D printing filaments ...

Deformation processes transform solid materials from one shape into another. The initial shape is usually simple (e.g., a billet or sheet blank) and is plastically deformed between tools, or dies, to ...