Styling and Branding
Your first impression of any manufactured part is almost always visual. That first impression makes a difference for all other interactions with the part. Make sure the visual appearance of your part communicates more than just its function - put your best face forward with a beautifully designed and formed part.
Thermoforming is an ideal process to create custom-designed production parts that are stylish, branded, and an upgrade to your current brake bent and welded geometric sheet metal parts.
Injection molding, metal stamping, and casting are not the only ways to create stylish parts with organic shapes and add differentiation to your branding.
Thermoforming is ideal for large parts, but the capabilities are broad with forming technology improvements: more materials that are suited to the process: and advances in tooling design.
Thermoforming does what injection molding can do with:
- Fewer parts
- Lower tooling costs (1/3 the cost of injection molding tools)
- Quicker prototyping
- Faster time to production
- Shorter production runs
Custom Thermoformed Parts
Some of the molded-in features that are achieved during the thermoforming process include:
- Elevated surface
- Recessed surfaces
- Mounting clips and brackets assemblies
- Holes, vents, louvers, and other features
- Varying radii and chamfers provide rigidity in addition to style
- Complex & hard to bend shapes
- Ribs
- Varying Textures (with pressure forming)
- Logos
- Text
- Graphics
Learn more about molded-in colors here.