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Thermoforming — The Surprising Vitality of a Mature Plastics Processing Technology

Plastics Today

Thermoforming is well-established as a plastics manufacturing process, but it still tends to be underappreciated or misunderstood. Let’s try to fix that.

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Cobot creates ‘cell manufacturing dream’ for plastics thermoformer

Robotics Business Review

Credit: Universal Robots Thermoforming, a technology that is more than a century old, uses sheet plastic that is heated to become soft so it can be vacuum-formed in or around a mold. Excess plastic is then cut off to create final products with dimensions that range from a few inches to the size of a room.

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Half the Time and Cost: How 3D-printed Molds are Transforming Thermoforming Processes

Manufacturer's Monthly

Plastic thermoforming companies like Duo Form have discovered how to leverage large-format extrusion 3D printing using low-cost plastic pellets to gain a competitive edge. Subtractive Moulds Versus Additive Moulds In conventional thermoforming, plastic sheet material is shaped over moulds to produce the finished part.

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Some progress on thermoform recycling, but still a long way to go

Plastics News

PET and high density polyethylene bottles have been the brightest stars in the plastics recycling universe for a long time. Manufacturers of other single-use plastics would like to achieve what PET and HDPE have accomplished. Could thermoformed PET reach that level? Thermoformed PET doesn't have that same advantage.

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3D Electronics: A New Frontier of Product Differentiation

i4.0 today

One such technology is In-mold electronics (IME), where conductive traces are printed and components mounted prior to thermoforming the flat substrate into a 3D part. Since IME is an evolution of an existing technique, much of the existing process knowledge and equipment can be reused, although there is a reasonable learning curve.

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Kickstart: Spinning off a medical giant

Plastics News

While GE HealthCare isn't a plastics processor, it is a major customer for molders with massive thermoformed parts used for MRI and CT machines along with other imaging equipment and a range of patient monitoring and care products. GE began the process of separating out the health care business in late 2021. It said in a Jan.

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North East Manufacturers Encouraged to Access Funding and Support Through Expanded Made Smarter Programme

i4.0 today

Awarded extra funding in last years Autumn Budget, Made Smarter supports manufacturing SMEs in the North East Combined Authority and Tees Valley Combined Authority areas to invest in new digital technology and processes to grow their businesses.