FORMING

As resins, machinery, and controls are continuously refined, and as sh eet extrusion capabilities advance, thermoforming is taking a strong p osition as a processing method that can compete with other plastics-fo rming processes such as solid and foam injection molding, blow molding , and rotational molding. Now more science than art, thermoforming app ears to have possibilities that product designers and machine builders are just beginning to imagine.