{"id":5410,"date":"2025-05-12T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.velfor.com\/savoir-faire\/heavy-duty-thermoforming\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:37:56","slug":"heavy-duty-thermoforming","status":"publish","type":"savoir-faire","link":"https:\/\/www.velfor.com\/en\/savoir-faire\/heavy-duty-thermoforming\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy-duty thermoforming"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This technology is used to deform thermoplastic materials into the desired shape and volume. This technology starts with a plastic sheet, whose thickness varies from 1.00 to 10 MM. This sheet is then deformed under heat and distributed around the perimeter of a mold to form the material by suction. <\/p>

The parts are then milled and trimmed on our machining centers to produce the final part.<\/p>

Thanks to this technology, the resulting parts can have different appearances (smooth, matt, grained…), in different shades\/colors or even transparent, with more or less complex designs and shapes.<\/p>

There is a wide variety of thermoplastic materials with high performance mechanical properties (impact resistance, UV resistance, anti-microbial properties, etc.).<\/p>

Thermoplastics have the advantage of lightening the weight of parts, are recycled and recyclable, and are durable and reusable solutions, operating in a \u201cclosed circuit\u201d and thus reducing environmental impact.<\/p>

Thermoplastics are compatible with sterilization (ETO, autoclave, OE…) and antimicrobial surface treatment can help reduce nosocomial diseases.<\/p>

The term thin thermoforming is used when the material is in coil form. Thin-film thermoforming involves taking this plastic coil, heating it to soften it, applying it to a mold and then vacuum-forming the plastic. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Step 1<\/p>\n \n

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The strengths of heavy-duty thermoforming<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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