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Trifibre Lda Vacuum Forming offers the complete vacuum moulding solution, from tooling to packaging. From our factory of approximately 6,500 square metres in Leicester, we are able to supply large quantities of orders to large organisations or individuals.
Our vacuum forming techniques can be applied to many different markets and types of industries, including medical, retail, packaging, aerospace, exhibitions, education, automotive and much more! Vacuum forming is proving increasingly popular in point-of-sale (POS) displays, medical and transport trays and the packaging industry. Our highly experienced and qualified vacuum forming team has over 30 years' experience and is able to offer honest advice to ensure that the right design solution is used in your project.
Our in-house sales and design departments offer a full consultancy service to work with you and ensure that your project requirements are successfully met at a competitive price.
Vacuum forming is a simple and economical way of moulding plastics by heating a sheet of plastic and sucking it around a tool or mould to produce a variety of products, from prototypes, storage trays and retail display products to vehicle parts.
The Vacuum Forming Process:
Clamping frames are used to ensure that the flat sheets of extruded plastic are held in place during forming. Customised frame sizes can also be designed to best suit your project specifications.
A singer heater is used to heat plastic up to 6 mm thick and a double heater is used to heat plastic sheets up to 10 mm thick. The heaters are infrared-generated, ensuring that an even amount of heat is applied to the entire surface of the plastic.
It is important to ensure that the plastic is properly cooled before it is released. If the plastic is not cooled properly, deformation or damage to the plastic can occur. Fans are often used to speed up the cooling process.
After the product has cooled, any excess material is removed. Any cutting, drilling and routing required on the project is then completed using various techniques, such as CNC routing.
Trifibre VacForming has invested heavily in modern plastic vacuum forming machinery and software to ensure that state-of-the-art facilities are available for us to produce innovative designs for our customers' briefs. As a result, our facilities, coupled with our highly experienced and skilled team, are what make us one of the UK's leading manufacturers.
A Singer heater is used to heat plastic up to 6 mm thick and a double heater is used to heat plastic sheets up to 10 mm thick. The heaters are generated by infrared, ensuring that an even amount of heat is applied to the entire surface of the plastic. Vacuum is then applied to the heated plastic, which consists of a vacuum pump used to suck out the air between the plastic and the mould. We also have CNC routing machines and other tools available to remove any excess plastic and add cutting and drilling to the design.
Trifibre VacForming can fulfil all your tooling needs. The types of tools available include aluminium, pattern board, resin and wood. Our in-house customer service and sales team will advise you on the best type of tool material to ensure the correct design is useful and avoid any manufacturing problems, taking into account the order quantity, surface area, weight and wall thickness.
Our in-house design team is able to produce fully customised design solutions to suit your exact specifications. With our state-of-the-art Computer Aided Design (CAD) facilities, we can provide visualisations of your design and prototypes before final production. We'll keep all your designs on file, ready for your next order, proving to be a cost-effective production method.
Trifibre VacForming has a team of highly qualified and experienced staff with over 30 years' experience in the vacuum forming sector. Vacuum forming involves forming a heated flat sheet of extruded plastic and applying it in a vacuum to be moulded by the tool.
We can produce any size of frame to suit the specifications of your project. We can also produce mouldings with Plug Assist.
VacForming by Trifibre Ltd, also have in house operation of Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machines allowing us to design and manufacture tools and form and trim designs from start to finish.
Trifibre Ltd have heavily invested in state of the art CNC routing machinery, which helps us to complete projects with great accuracy and ensures project deadlines are met. These include Biesse Rover CNC, Morbidelli CNC Routed and SCM CNC.
The benefits of using CNC cutting techniques include:
We specialise in aerospace packaging solutions with almost 40 years' experience. Our in-house design and technical team takes your project from concept to completion, all managed at our 6,500 m² facility in the UK.
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