Thermoforming Tooling
Custom Solutions
Tek Pak provides machining, thermoform tool design, tool fabrication, as well as tool testing for high-performance products and packaging. Our team collaborates with customers to design and build tools based on their specific requirements, whether that is a single cavity prototype tool or a multi-cavity high-performance production tool. Features found in our high-performance production tools include water-cooled cavities, moving plug assist, air-actuated temperature-controlled strippers and sheet clamps, as well as end-of-machine automation and stacking. We are experts at providing custom solutions that quickly resolve our customers’ production and packaging challenges.
Beyond Machining
Tek Pak is not just a standard tool shop, we offer services beyond machining. Tek Pak offers support in product and packaging design, tool design, fabrication and tool testing.
Tek Pak’s experienced team will work with you to design and build tools based on your requirement, whether that is a single cavity prototype tool or a multi-cavity high-performance production tool.
The Best Features
Features found in high-performance production tools.
- Water-cooled cavities
- Moving plug assist
- Air actuated temperature-controlled strippers
- Individual air actuated sheet clamps
- End of machine automation/stacking
Thermoforming Tooling FAQs
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Curious About the Difference Between Thermoforming Tooling and Thin Thermoform Tools?
Thermoforming tooling consists of a positive tool that is convex-shaped and a negative tool that is concave-shaped. After heating, the plastic sheet is placed above the positive tool, imparting the exterior surface shape to the part. The negative tool gives the parts their outer surface shape. Thin thermoforming tools are made from various materials such as wood, plaster, plastic, aluminum, steel, sprayed metal, or layered metal. The choice of material depends on the number of production parts required and their quality.
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Which Mold Coating is Right for my Thermoformed Tool?
Thermoforming manufacturing is a process that involves heating a plastic sheet to a pliable temperature and then forming it into a specific shape using a mold. Quality management in thermoforming manufacturing ensures that the final product meets the required specifications and standards. This is achieved by implementing quality control procedures such as sampling a random product selection, testing it for things that matter to real customers, isolating the causes of any failures, designing secondary measures of the production process, and correcting the causes of failure. Quality Management Systems (QMS) can also be integrated with manufacturing execution system (MES) and manufacturing intelligence to provide rapid identification, containment, risk evaluation, corrective action, and preventative methods.
Expert Engineers
Our talented engineers will design any component for your equipment.
- Master tooling/quick-change systems
- Interchangeable family tooling
- Complete custom tools
- Pressure boxes
- Mold plates and cooling plates
- Trim platen tools
Unmatched Versatility
Our versatile tool shop can handle micromachined components all the way up to 60” long X 40” wide X 20” deep.
Tek Pak uses an array of plug assist products to enhance the forming process based on the type of material to be formed. During the design process, we will help you select the correct material to meet your needs.
Mold Coatings
Tek Pak offers a variety of coatings for our molds:
- Nickleon
- Hard coat with Teflon for better part forming and ejection and mold protection.
- Teflon
- Aid in-forming and injection.
- Anodizing
- Mold protection.
Want to Talk?
Our knowledgeable staff is available to answer your technical questions, provide quotes, and coordinate your designs with our engineering staff. Please call us at: (630) 406-0560, or if you like please fill out the form on this page.