Peter Zelnick can imagine Zed Industries Inc.'s new thermoforming machine — which forms parts in a vacuum — turning out panels for buildings on Mars. How about something more down-to-Earth? * Medical ...

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 ...

Vacuum forming is perhaps one of the less popular tools in the modern maker arsenal, something which surprises us a bit because it offers many possibilities. We’ve created our own vacuum forms on 3D ...

From top: A thermoforming/rapid prototyping machine from Geiss is equipped with a CNC router, a Sinumerik 840D control, and cutter length measuring inside the machine. The speedboat above was formed ...

Stanley Rosen is the thermoforming industry's historian, and for good reason: He was in on the ground floor. “I knew all of these early guys,” he said. “Everybody knew everybody. These people were ...

The team at Proto-Storm based in Vancouver, have created a new desktop vacuum former specifically designed for makers and to provide professional quality thermoforming in a portable and affordable ...

Advances in materials, tooling, and technology continue to blur the line between the most suitable process and a given application. Thermoforming, of course, can be used to make everything from ...

There’s a decent chance that you’ve held something today that exists thanks to thermoforming… even if you don’t know what thermoforming is. The video above gives a brief rundown of the process (“A ...

Welch Fluorocarbon Inc. Dover, N.H. As many of today's medical-device manufacturers produce smaller and smaller assemblies, the space available for powerful batteries is extremely tight. In such tight ...