Building custom parts often means learning new skills or getting out of your comfort zone, especially if you want to create something that is really cool. While most hot rodders can fabricate brackets ...

Eliminating the need for ovens and the heating of sheet, a new thermoforming process directly extrudes plastic onto tooling for twin-sheet thermoforming. Bart Berghuis, VP of sales at LRM Industries ...

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 ...

Thermoforming equipment makers, component suppliers and machine dealers will display their products and discuss capabilities during NPE 2015, March 23-27 in Orlando, Fla. Aaron Equipment Co. (Booth ...

This extrusion line has two single-screw extruders equipped with a central vacuum exhauster for removing the gas from the melt, making expensive predrying of the raw material unnecessary. The ...

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 ...