Vacuum Forming

The vacuum forming technique is a printing method of plastic materials that transforms sheets or film in articles with different shapes and dimensions under vacuum-seal.  The sheets are warmed and blew in order to adhere on the mould and to take the shape of it.

The mould has to be uniface and it could be positive (“male” mould) or negative (“female” mould). An article can be easily vacuum formed when it is moderately shaped, with not too much small dimensions, constant thickness and not very complicated undercuts.

The precision of the dimensions is guaranteed only in one face of the piece (because the mould is uniface).

Our company has ten vacuum-forming machines and is able to print very big articles (the maximum dimension of the sheet that we can vacuum-form is 1240×2240 mm), with starting thickness that can go from some tenths of a millimetre to more than one centimetre.