Thermoforming Plastic Sheets

This selection of materials are best known for their excellent formability in addition to their individual traits of toughness chemical resistance and heat resistance for example.

Thermoforming plastic sheets. Widgetworks unlimited thermoform plastic sheets are perfect for inventors small businesses and diy hobbyists who want to make custom vacuum formed plastic parts. The sheet or film when referring to thinner gauges and certain material types is heated in an oven to a high enough temperature that permits it to be stretched into or onto a mold and cooled to a finished shape. Thermoforming is a manufacturing process where a plastic sheet is heated to a pliable forming temperature formed to a specific shape in a mold and tripped to create a usable product. Polycarbonate lexan thermoform plastic sheets polycarbonate often sold under the trade name lexan is the virtually unbreakable thermoform plastic used to make bulletproof glass.

Plastic materials for thermoforming many plastic sheet materials can be shaped by thermoforming. Thin gauge transparent polycarbonate is the material of choice for folks who build ultra light thin plastic parts that are exposed to a lot of abuse. Amorphous plastics like abs and polycarbonate generally have wide processing windows and good melt strength making them easy to thermoform.