Capabilities

Pressure forming
Highly toleranced parts with an injection-moulded appearance can easily be manufactured on Airform's modern pressure forming machine.

Pressure forming allows us to mould in threaded or orphan inserts, further enhancing the design solution.

The use of pressure formed parts has allowed customers to avoid the capital cost of injection moulding tools, especially where part size is large and the volume of parts is small to medium production runs per annum. Often pressure forming is used as a stepping stone towards injection moulding, allowing customers to sell their products with high end finished aesthetics associated with injection moulded products.

Pressure formed electronics enclosure form Kyde

Enclosure showing moulded in place threaded insert.

Twin Sheet Forming
Twin sheet forming is a process that allows us to mould and weld two separate sheets of material either of the same gauge, or of dissimilar gauges or colours.

The process allows designers to created hollow structural parts that allow high torsional stiffness, the ability to mould in threaded inserts into one sheet only, or to introduce polyurethane foam into the cavity for insulation properties or increased stiffness requirements.

Twin sheet forming, unlike Rotation moulding, allows for a wider range of materials to be moulded, a quicker cycle time, and parts with high accuracy and little distortion.

Twin sheet part showing two different Coloured sheets welded together.	Twin sheet formed water filter part.
Twin sheet formed part showing Foam filled cavity.

5-Axis pattern making and trimming.
Airform International utilises the latest in CAD/CAM manufacturing to ensure that parts and products produced are to the files provided by the client or submitted by us.

It is our opinion that if a client has spent the money on good design via CAD then it is pointless to have the prototype tooling or production tooling produced by traditional pattern making techniques.

5-axis trimming of parts ensures very fast production cycles, along with high repeat accuracy of every part trimmed.

Prototype vacuum forming tool from wood. Tooling made in 4 hours from CAD file.