Molding processes

thumb|Large bricks on a conveyor belt in a modern European factory setting A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site. In earlier times bricks were made at brickfields, which would be returned to agricultural use after the clay layer was exhausted.

adding a soft but not fully liquid material into a mold (like wet clay)

manufacturing process

making hollow plastic objects in a heated mold

thumb|Animation of the thermoforming process. Thermoforming is a manufacturing process where a plastic sheet is heated to a pliable forming temperature, formed to a specific shape in a mold, and trimmed to create a usable product. The sheet, or "film" when referring to thinner gauges and certain material types, is heated in an oven to a high-enough temperature that permits it to be stretched into or onto a mold and cooled to a finished shape. Its simplified version is vacuum forming.

simplified version of thermoforming, where a sheet of plastic is heated, stretched, and forced against a mold by a vacuum

machine for manufacturing plastic products by the injection molding process

method of molding

manufacturing process where casting material is forced into a mold

process of fiberglass reinforced resin plastics formed into useful shapes