Materials
Materials EPS (airpop® engineered air), EPP, EPE and ETPU
Particle foam products are built up from fused beads that have expanded in a mould after being heated. The beads, or particles, consist of small closed cell plastic balloons.
Particle foams are manufactured from various plastics such as PS, PP, PE and PU. Hybrid foams are also an option, for example combinations of PS/PE or PE/PP. The various basic plastics have widely varying properties; as a result, the expandable versions do too. HSV is happy to advise you on the right choice for your situation.
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The benefits of particle foam
Lightweight
Easy to Clean
Efficient use of Materials
Thermally Insulation
Large freedom of design
Endlessly Recycable
Shock-absorbing
Attractively Priced
Able to withstand multiple loads
Feasibility study
Feasibility study | Test the feasibility of your product
Developing a new plastic product obviously starts with a sophisticated design, supplementary details and high-quality engineering.
During the feasibility study, the HSV engineers assess whether your product design can be manufactured using particle foams (EPS, EPP, ETPU, etc.), plastic injection moulding, or hybrid solutions that combine both techniques. You will receive advice without any obligations, gain insight into the options for your finished and/or semi-manufactured product, and find out how long production will take, accompanied by an initial estimate of the costs. More about the feasibility study.
Material combinations
Smart combinations
Thanks to smart combinations of various material groups and manufacturing technologies, our product range is both wide and deep. We design products with extreme properties. They are extremely light or extremely rigid. Or extremely long or extremely high, made possible by special connecting techniques.
Smart combinations
By using e.g. carbon fibre reinforcement, we can design lightweight structural parts that have to do their work under extreme conditions. In this, we differentiate between internal and external application.
Under one roof, we manufacture combinations of solid plastics and expandable plastics. By using plastic injection-moulded products, we can include load-bearing parts in your designs.
finishing
We can also apply surface finishing: vinyl, textile or other plastic layers. In larger series, this allows us to create very attractive results.
Expandable plastics also combine well with vacuform parts or with films. These are either shaped in the mould or shaped externally and placed in the mould. The result can be local strengthening or waterproofing.
Fasteners and connections
Hinges
Hinges are relatively easy to apply to our products by locally compressing the plastic. The end result can easily be opened and closed 10,000 times.
Hinges are used in special re-usable packaging, suitcases and special housings. The only limits to our product range are created by the extent of your design creativity.
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In soft foams, we apply special plugs with a coarse winding. The result is tensile strengths up to 1200N, enough to attach your product e.g. to a moving vehicle.
Metal mounting brackets incorporated in the foam further increase possibilities.
click and screw connections
Particle foams are easy to remove from the mould so negative angles (so-called undercuts) can be made in the mould without any need for moving parts.
This enables a range of click and screw connections, without any serious impact on the mould price.
Colours and surfaces
Colours
Particle foams are available in a broad range of colours. This creates exciting opportunities to develop attractive B2C designs and to give products a distinctive look.
2k technology can also include areas in different colours or combinations of different materials.
Surfaces
In addition, modern mould technology offers a range of opportunities to optimise the product surface. We create visible surfaces with a high aesthetic value in a process in which the distinctive particle pattern disappears.
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Particle Foam projects
From a filler block to an Airbus A 380, particle foams are everywhere.
Some of our clients:
Would you like to receive more information?
Contact one of your engineers, we are happy to inform you