CAPABILITIES

Tooling & Prototyping

A ThermoPro, we know that obtaining well-designed and well-built tooling (molds, cooling fixtures and trimming fixtures) is a large part of achieving good, consistent thermoformed products. The following is a checklist of basic variables to consider when first designing any thermoforming tool:

Mold Construction and Material

• Male or Female Mold
• Type of Production
• Method of Forming
• Volum of Parts Projected
• Thermoforming Machine to Produce Part

When ordering or building tooling, additional details, specifications and variables need to be checked, rechecked and monitored. Proper documentation, started in the early stages of tooling design and construction, helps prevent and alleviate problems often encountered when producing prototypes and in the first production runs. Proper documentation helps establish guidelines and creates a "history" for future production runs.