Unlike other plastic forming processes, vacuum forming uses heat and a vacuum to form plastic over simple pattern molds.

Description Plastics Process Engineering II introduces four of the five major plastics forming (manufacturing) processes: rotational molding, thermoforming, blow molding, and injection molding with ...

MISSION VIEJO, CALIF. — At age 95, Jim Kemerer, a World War II veteran who led U.S. Steel into injection and blow molding in the 1960s, is still active in plastics technology as he promotes his ...

This short film explains the process of vacuum forming, which is an easy way to make hollow plastic mouldings which can be used in a wide variety of RMT design projects.

They fill a niche for small to medium-quantity production runs or for parts needing tolerances tighter than is practical from conventional plastic-forming processes.