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Line bending is a process whereby a plastic sheet is
heated along a small area until the plastic reaches
its forming temperature, the sheet is then placed
into a cooling jig that is designed to cool the
plastic sheet into its newly formed shape.
There are three stages to performing a line bend:
1 - Heat the sheet along a bend line,
2 - Bend the sheet, usually by hand,
3 - Secure the sheet into a cooling jig.
This process is done using a line bender (also
referred to as a strip heater) which is a machine
that uses tensioned wire that is heated, when this
wire is placed in close proximity to the material
the plastic is heated along that bend line.
Atlas Plastics have
three
line benders capable of producing up to 4 bends
simultaneously at a length of up to
3000mm
and in plastics up to
12mm thick.
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