Thermoforming experts help students sink to new depths
A West-Midlands based thermoforming company has helped a team of students sink to new depths by manufacturing the nose cone for a competition-worthy submarine.
Big Bear Plastic Products, based in Droitwich, manufactured the piece for ‘Warwick Sub’, a team of eight Masters-level students who took on the challenge of designing and building a human powered submarine to compete in the 2015 International Submarine Race (ISR).
Big Bear moulded the piece on one of its rotary vacuum-forming machines using clear polycarbonate sheet.
Commenting, Warwick Sub Project Leader, Richard Freeman, said the team was “extremely happy” with the end result of the nose cone, “especially the transparency” of the polycarbonate.