In-house tooling design and fabrication reduces your design cycle and time-to-market.

Thermoforming occupies a unique niche in the plastics industry, offering many benefits over other plastics molding techniques. Low tooling costs allow thermoforming to compete directly with fiberglass, wood, and metal fabrication while achieving higher production rates and lower part costs. The greatest economies in thermoforming are achieved at low to moderate volumes (10 to 10,000 units per year depending on the part size).

For many applications, thermoforming can offer a number of advantages over injection molding, including substantially lower tooling costs, greatly reduced prototyping and production cycles, and ultimately shorter time-to-market. While there are many cases where other molding processes are required, don't discount the flexibility of thermoforming! Send us your requirement, and we'll advise if thermoforming is a fit for your application. Refer to this page for a detailed comparison of thermoforming and injection molding.

Designs are transformed from your drawing or CAD file to a physical mold by our design team using SolidWorks 2010 and MasterCAM X4, both advanced 3-D CAD applications. With solid modeling and on-screen 3-D rendering, these tools allow us to create each component of an assembly, and then put all of the virtual parts together and detect any inconsistencies before proceeding to machine the mold. We will also send you rendered images for your review and approval prior to proceeding.

Our in-house 3- and 5-axis CNC machining capabilities allow us to offer inexpensive prototype and production tooling. Up-front tooling can cost less than 1/10th the cost of other molding processes and shorter lead times are the norm.

Waveform fabricates molds and fixtures from aluminum, Prolab (Renshape), epoxies, wood, and other materials, depending on a number of factors, such as the number of parts, quality of finished part, and finished part tolerances. Molds may be machined from a block of material, or may sometimes be cast from a part or from another mold.

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