
About FastForming
Today’s Fast Forming has changed considerably over the years, constantly adding capabilities, increasing capacity, and staying on the cutting edge of technology.
Before Thermoforming
Before entering the world of plastic, Del Reedy was an aerospace engineer. After completing his BS in Mechanical Engineering and being accepted into a doctoral program for nuclear engineering, Del spent many years working in the aerospace industry with companies like Lockheed, Fairchild, Boeing, and Aerojet General. Del specialized in the high-temperature materials required for the interior of solid propellant rocket motors at these companies.

Some of the highlights of Del’s impressive career include the following accomplishments:
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Del worked on high-temperature materials and structures to demonstrate the feasibility of the dynamic soaring vehicle, an air-breathing rocket-propelled craft.
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He designed pressure vessels out of high-strength, high-temperature steel alloys.
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He participated in developing an analytical method to predict the decompression snuffing (L*) of rocket motors.
The Formation of Sandel Products
In 1974, Del quit the aerospace game and used his experience to create Sandel Products, a California-based thermoforming company. Working with the high-temperature materials required for solid propellant rocket motors’ interiors gave Del insight into how inefficiently modern thermoforming companies were producing their tooling. By instituting his ideas for tool production, Del could begin creating vacuum-forming tools and finished vacuum-formed prototypes in just a few days—not six to eight weeks like his competitors.

But updating the tooling process wasn’t quite enough. Unsatisfied with the thermoforming machines currently on the market, Del also developed a vacuum-forming machine that could extract a heated sheet of plastic from the oven and onto the tool in only two seconds.
Del’s specialized vacuum forming equipment and proprietary thermoforming tooling allowed straight vacuum forming techniques to produce parts with superior appearance and definition. Many parts formed using his proprietary equipment and tooling appear to have been injection molded or pressure formed.
Custom Thermoforming in the East
In 1999, Del’s son James, who holds a BS and an MS in Mechanical Engineering, decided to join the family business. Having moved to Ohio to marry his Midwestern sweetheart three years prior, James was in the perfect position to open the Eastern US version of Sandel Products: Plastics Design and Manufacturing, today known as FastForming.com, LLC. Serving the Eastern part of the United States, FastForming.com uses the same proprietary thermoforming tooling and specialized vacuum forming equipment as Sandel Products, allowing them to offer the same quality products.
Modern Thermoforming
FastForming builds temperature controlled aluminum tools for our high speed in-line thermoformer where rapid cooling is needed to maximize the output of the machine. Sheet fed machine’s production rates generally don’t require the rapid cooling of aluminum, and in some cases rapid cooling can be detrimental to the part. Epoxy tools save you money.
Fastforming.com has done jobs for many well-known companies. Here are a few that you may have heard of:
Raytheon • Tesla • Stanley Black & Decker
Borg Warner • Champion Spark Plugs
Accumed • Boston Dynamics
Stryker • Apple Inc.