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Once, processors either injection molded thin-walled packaging, or they thermoformed it, with the battle lines clear for all. But thermoforming’s advances have grabbed molders’ attention, so that molders’ expansion plans often now include adding thermoforming to their portfolio. Many containers can be injection molded or thermoformed. Since the beginning of the plastics industry, the two methods have been largely practiced by completely separate companies. Injection molding machine builders have long been on the defense of their equipment with detailed studies, which always try to prove the better economics of their process. We extruder/thermoformers have never found such a defense necessary.

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