| Are you aware that some of the things we use | | | | - Great and unique design |
| in our everyday lives are plastics? When we talk | | | | - Firmly and nicely furnished |
| about convenience, durability, efficiency, stability, | | | | - Shorter time for production |
| usefulness and practicality in the things we use | | | | - Can work on any type of weather conditions, |
| nowadays, chances are, those things are made | | | | high and low temperatures.2. |
| out of plastic.One example of this is Zip-lock | | | | HistoryThermoforming is one of the oldest plastic |
| plastic bags for storing foods. Another one is the | | | | manufacturing procedures. In the year 1890, baby |
| Coleman or Rubbermaid coolers we use to keep | | | | rattles and teething rings were formed out of |
| preserve foods while camping outside or going out | | | | plastics using the thermoforming procedure. In |
| of town and water jugs to keep our beverages | | | | 1930 some developments were made in the |
| cool and a handy gadget outdoors. And a lot | | | | plastic materials; but it never grew sucessful until |
| more of plastics used for everyone's convenience. | | | | the 1930's in Europe.3. Process |
| But these are not just ordinary plastics! Plastic is...- | | | | CategoriesThermoforming has two general |
| Durable | | | | process categories called the thin gauge and the |
| - Reliable | | | | so called heavy or thick gauge. Thin gauge is used |
| - Tough | | | | for thin sheets of plastics and can be directly |
| - Helpful | | | | processed with regulated temperature. Unlike the |
| - Easy to use | | | | heavy or thick gauge, the plastic used there is |
| - Low in cost1. ThermoformingThermoforming is | | | | thicker than the thin plastic sheets and it still need |
| one of the procedures being done to manufacture | | | | to cut into pieces before being processed. Instead |
| plastic. A plastic sheet or film is used that can be | | | | of using the regulated temperature for thin |
| easily soften up when heated and becomes hard | | | | plastics sheets in order to form a product, the |
| again when it cools down. The kind of plastic used | | | | temperature is higher than the regulated |
| in Thermoforming can undergo melting and | | | | temperature in heavy or thick gauge.Heavy or |
| freezing without changing its chemical state and it | | | | thick gauge was formed during the World War II |
| can be re-used. The plastic sheet or film is heated | | | | on aircraft windscreens and machine gun turret |
| between specialized heaters in order to form the | | | | windows in aircrafts. Today, heavy or thick gauge |
| product with its usual temperature range. Then it | | | | parts are used in permanent structures as |
| is placed in a temperature regulated metal table or | | | | additional parts in cars, trucks, refrigerating units, |
| molder until it is cooled down. The plastic formed | | | | bathroom accessories such as showers, plastic |
| from the molder will be taken out of the sheet. | | | | faucets, plastic doors and toilet seats, electronic |
| Used or excess plastic sheets are being recycled | | | | and electrical equipment.It is a big benefit for |
| in order to form new plastic products out of it.It | | | | companies who use these kind of procedure for |
| is a technological breakthrough for its:- Reliability | | | | their plastic products it's lower costs, durability, |
| - Convenience | | | | usefulness, and productivity. It also weighs less |
| - Easier to produce | | | | than other ordinary and special types of plastics. |
| - Ability to form small and large objects for that | | | | Of course, it's also helpful for the consumers and |
| specific product | | | | users of this kind of plastic. |
| - Lower costs of production | | | | |