Vacuum formers are useful tools to have around the shop and also an incredibly simple technology. All you need is a plastic sheet, a heater of some kind, a table with a bunch of holes in it, and a ...

Marty Hankins removes a sheet of molded plastic from the Vaquform machine as, from left, Joshua Paul, Ruth Wilson and Jean Pyzik ook on during a vacuum forming class at Exploration Commons in ...

Customers of Lindar Corp., a plastics thermoformer in Minnesota, often want functional prototypes of food containers to test and evaluate. And they want them in only a couple of days. This has meant ...

When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum forming—smoothing a sheet of thin plastic over an object to make a ...

UK-based start-up Mayku has released a vacuum former that's powered by a Hoover and small enough to fit on a desktop. FormBox – which was funded for more than $500,000 on Kickstarter – shrinks and ...

The WonderPress can help turn custom cut and printed designs into craft products ready to sell. The WonderPress can help turn custom cut and printed designs into craft products ready to sell. is a ...

Routing and trimming equipment maker Motionmaster Inc. has opened its first facility for manufacturing thermoforming machines. In early January, Motionmaster began producing a standardized, ...

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 ...