Assembly for manufacturing fillable containers and a packaging line comprising such manufacturing assembly and a corresponding method

An assembly for manufacturing containers by thermoforming, comprising:

• a magazine of thermoplastic blanks,
• a heating station for heating the blanks, the heating station comprising a heating carousel provided with a plurality of heating heads,
• a thermoforming station for thermoforming containers starting from said blanks,
• a feeding station for feeding the blanks comprising a closed-loop path and at least two conveyor elements which move, following each other, along said closed-loop path between a loading position, in which the conveyor element faces the magazine, and an unloading position, in which the conveyor element faces the heating station,
• in operating condition, the conveyor element in the unloading position moves with a substantially linear motion with a speed that is substantially equal to a peripheral speed of the heating carousel,
• wherein the heating carousel is configured to rotate continuously about a central axis, and
• wherein the closed-loop path of the feeding station lays on a plane that is perpendicular to said central axis.