Services Vacuum Forming
Vacuum Forming
Custom vacuum-formed plastic parts, trays, covers, and enclosures for industrial and commercial use.
P&M Plastics offers custom vacuum forming services for producing shaped plastic parts, trays, covers, and enclosures. Vacuum forming is a cost-effective manufacturing process that uses heat and vacuum pressure to shape thermoplastic sheets over custom moulds, creating lightweight yet durable formed components.
Our vacuum forming capabilities are ideal for producing protective covers, equipment housings, packaging trays, point-of-sale displays, signage letters, and custom enclosures.
We work with a range of formable plastics including ABS, HIPS, PETG, Polycarbonate, Acrylic, and PVC in various thicknesses and colours. From prototype tooling to production runs, we manage the full process: mould design, sheet selection, forming, trimming, and finishing.
Vacuum forming offers significant cost advantages over injection moulding for low-to-medium volume production, making it the ideal choice for custom parts where tooling investment needs to be kept manageable.
Our team can advise on material selection, draft angles, and mould design to ensure your formed parts meet dimensional and aesthetic requirements.
Vacuum forming mould ready for production
Why Choose This Service
How It Works
Share Your Design
Provide your part design, dimensions, and functional requirements. We can work from 3D models or sketches.
Mould Engineering
We design and build the vacuum forming mould optimised for your part geometry and material.
Forming & Trimming
Sheets are heated and vacuum-formed over the mould, then trimmed and finished to specification.
Quality & Delivery
Formed parts are inspected for dimensional accuracy and surface quality before dispatch.
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Materials We Process
- ABS
- HIPS
- PETG
- Polycarbonate
- Acrylic
- PVC
Capabilities
- Mould Design
- Sheet Heating
- Vacuum Forming
- Trimming
- Finishing
Frequently Asked Questions
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