What do you do when you find some friends have bought a vacuum forming machine? Make novelty chocolates and ice cubes, of course! This was my response when I had the opportunity to play with 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 ...

Makers and small businesses looking for an affordable way to manufacture vacuum formed products in small production runs may be interested in a new desktop vacuum forming machine which has been ...

Vacuum forming is a process which is used for toys and packaging – and it is incredibly satisfying to watch. UK company Formech sells machines that vacuum form, and they show off the process in their ...

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 ...

The vacuum forming machine can form plastic sheets around objects to create a form. In the Maker Lab, we have a My Yard Formart 2 vacuum former and a Centroform SV 1217 vacuum former. Material Fees: ...

The science pros at TKOR show how to make a silver play button using vacuum forming techniques. GOP Calls for Investigation into Federal Card Charges A Louisiana plantation-turned-resort burns, ...

This machine can use almost any item to make 3D moulds. The FormBox is a compact, home vacuum former that's small enough to sit on almost any table top. The machine uses your vacuum to create the ...