Advanced Thermoforming: Methods, Machines and Materials, Applications, Automation, Sustainability, and the Circular Economy 2nd Edition

Overview of advanced technologies in thermoforming including forming, filling, and sealing processes, and practical applications in various industries

Advanced Thermoforming offers an overview of and new insights into thermoforming by comparing current and new standards for forming and mold technologies, presenting concepts from the practitioner's perspective in a case-study format showing the possibilities of automated processes, reviewing the forming, filling, sealing processes, and applications of technical parts and packaging.

The reader is guided along the path of design and development for machine and mold technologies and production processes. Along with updated content, this revised Second Edition adds new coverage of sustainability in packaging, circular economy principles, mold technology, electromotive applications, and developments in new polymeric materials. The text opens thermoforming to new applications and demands on plastic parts by covering advances in thermoforming machines, molds, and automation.

Advanced Thermoforming covers topics such as:

• Basics of thermoforming and thermoplastics, production of semifinished products, extrusion, and coextrusion
• Introduction to both heavy and thin gauge thermoforming
• New approaches for more sustainable rigid packaging through thermoforming
• Fuel tank production on sheet machines, automotive body and commercial vehicle applications, and production of refrigerator liners
• Sustainability and circular economy principles in thermoforming

Presenting an impressive variety of advanced thermoforming technologies in a very readable form, Advanced Thermoforming is an essential reference for polymer and plastics engineers as well asprocessors, technical engineers, R & D managers, new product development managers, automotive engineers, technicians, and equipment designers.

「高級熱成型技術概述，包括成型、灌裝和封口過程，以及在各個行業中的實際應用」
《高級熱成型》通過比較成型和模具技術的現行和新標準，從實踐者的角度以案例研究的形式呈現概念，展示了自動化過程的可能性，回顧了成型、灌裝、封口過程以及技術零件和包裝的應用。本書引導讀者在機器和模具技術以及生產過程的設計和開發方面前進。在更新的內容之外，這本修訂版第二版還增加了對包裝可持續性、循環經濟原則、模具技術、電動應用和新聚合物材料發展的新內容。本書通過介紹熱成型機器、模具和自動化的進步，將熱成型擴展到新的應用和對塑料零件的需求。《高級熱成型》涵蓋了以下主題：
- 熱成型和熱塑性材料的基礎知識，半成品的生產，擠出和共擠出
- 介紹厚薄板熱成型
- 通過熱成型實現更可持續的堅固包裝的新方法
- 在板材機上生產燃料箱，汽車車身和商用車應用，以及冰箱內襯的生產
- 熱成型中的可持續性和循環經濟原則

《高級熱成型》以易讀的形式展示了各種先進的熱成型技術，是聚合物和塑料工程師以及加工商、技術工程師、研發經理、新產品開發經理、汽車工程師、技術人員和設備設計師的重要參考資料。

Sven Engelmann is the Director of Packaging Technology and the Thermoforming Technology Center at Illig Maschinenbau GmbH Co. KG in Germany. He is also a lecturer on thermoforming at the Aalen University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

Sven Engelmann是德國Illig Maschinenbau GmbH Co. KG的包裝技術和熱成型技術中心的主任。他也是德國Aalen應用科學大學的熱成型講師。