Productive Plastics, Inc.

Vacuum Forming

Vacuum FormingCustom Vacuum Thermoforming

Productive Plastics is a leading provider of custom plastic vacuum forming services. Productive Plastics can provide product design and manufacturing engineering assistance in conjunction with vacuum forming contract manufacturing. Productive Plastics is ISO 9001:2015 registered, with over 65 years of plastics experience and extensive technical expertise in vacuum thermoforming.

What is Vacuum Thermoforming?

Vacuum thermoforming is a plastic thermoforming manufacturing technique within the broader term of the plastic thermoforming process. In vacuum forming a 2 dimensional thermoplastic sheet material is heated to a forming optimal temperature and then positioned over a custom mold or tool. Then, the air is evacuated between the heated sheet and mold creating a vacuum that pulls the material onto the surface of the mold to create the desired 3-dimensional part shape. Once the now molded part cools and hardens, the part is removed and further processed to specification.