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With Thermoforming, Packaging Products Can be More Secure and Appealing   by Jeff Paul

To ensure the safety of their products while maintaining their visibility and physical appeal, more and more manufacturers are turning to regular and custom thermoforming for their packaging needs.

Either process results in materials with a neat and sleek appearance, which is important in ensuring product marketability. At the same time, the process ensures that the enclosed items are adequately protected from moisture, dirt, rapid changes in temperature, compression, theft, or tampering during the shipping.

Thermoformed Packaging Materials are molded by plastic sheets into the desired shapes. Rolls of plastic film are heated using a specialized oven, which prepares the sheets for molding. Molding, on the other hand, involves applying tremendous pressure to the heated plastic sheets using pre-formed casts.

For creating stock clamshells, such casts can simply take the shape of boxes in different sizes. But for custom thermoformed packaging, the negative molds must simulate the shapes of the specific products.

When the molds cool, the plastic hardens into new shapes which can then be detached from their respective molds. Among the containers that can be developed using this procedure are clamshells, blisters, and trays

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