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 ...

There’s a decent chance that you’ve held something today that exists thanks to thermoforming… even if you don’t know what thermoforming is. The video above gives a brief rundown of the process (“A ...

Normally, foam cores cannot be used at temperatures higher than their glass transition temperature (Tg). The ArmaFORM AC grade PET core material has a Tg of around 75ºC. However, crystallization in ...

Fort Worth, Texas — The thermoforming industry needs a better understanding of the science behind the process and better development of standardized tests and properties, said Amit Dharia, who runs a ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Disney Research Zurich have developed a new technique called Computational Thermoforming. It enables them to manufacture plastic replicas of digital 3-D models, in which ...

OSHA Releases New Thermoforming Module Sep 13, 2007 Thermoforming--a manufacturing process using a thermoplastic sheet or film that is fed into an oven, and then heated, formed, and trimmed--may be a ...

OSHA has released a new Thermoforming module for the Plastics Machinery section of OSHA's Machine Guarding eTool. The module reviews potential hazards associated with thermoforming, a manufacturing ...