Plastic moulding

Plastic moulding is another way of describing vacuum moulding. The process simply put is shaping one of many different types of plastic which will be best suited for the end use by heating it to a pliable state using a clamping system to hold the sheet in place. The sheet is then placed over a ridged male or female pattern. The vacuum will suck the pliable sheet into the shape of the tool prior to the sheet cooling back into a solid form thus maintaining the desired shape. We work with a large range of plastic sheets in a variety of colours, textures, and thicknesses sourced from both local and international suppliers. A large range of stock sheets are stored in-house but can also be sourced based on specific requirements such as UV stable, flame retardant, soft-touch, metallic, chromes to list a hand full of options.

Plastic moulding is one of the oldest forms of plastic manipulation. The advantages of plastic moulding are that it is considerably more affordable in comparison to other types of moulding especially in the early stages of tool manufacturing as well as low volume manufacturing and prototyping. With modern-day resins and all processes kept in-house, the process from conceptualisation to final production parts is much quicker than alternative moulding processes. We now have the ability to create tooling which can have almost an unlimited life span.