Vacuum Forming Plastic Process (step-by-step) A material blank which has a length and width greater than the finished part is loaded into a clamp frame to be carried through the process.

The thermoforming process starts with an extruded sheet that is formed and trimmed to a finished part. Other plastic conversion processes, such as injection molding, blow molding, reaction injection moldi...

The chart below compares thermoforming in the first two columns of vacuum forming/pressure forming with Reaction Injection Molding, injection molding and structural foam molding. The highest value is 10 a...