What is Ethafoam?
What is Ethafoam?
Ethafoam® is a durable, flexible, closed-cell foam that is waterproof and chemical resistant with an excellent memory. It performs consistently through a wide range of temperatures. It is easily cut with knives, hot knives, band saws, powered foam rubber cutters, and table saws.
What Ethafoam 220?
ETHAFOAM™ 220 polyethylene foam is a durable, lightweight, flexible, solid extruded product. This process technology incorporates a patented CFC- and HCFC-free blowing agent system and an accelerated curing system that reduces residual blowing agents in ETHAFOAM products to trace amounts.
Is Ethafoam fire resistant?
Ethafoam® 220 foam is also available with fire-retardant and anti-static properties to safely protect sensitive electronic equipment during shipment and storage.
What is polyethylene foam?
Polyethylene foam is a durable, lightweight, resilient, closed-cell material. It is often used for packaging fragile goods due to its excellent vibration dampening and insulation properties. It also offers high resistance to chemicals and moisture. Polyethylene foam is easy to process and fabricate.
Is Ethafoam closed cell?
ETHAFOAM 220 is a strong, resilient, medium-density 2.2 pcf (35.2 kg/m3), closed-cell foam.
What is Ethafoam made of?
It is easily fabricated, impervious to most chemicals, non-abrasive and performs consistently over a wide range of temperatures. ETHAFOAM 180 is also reusable and completely recyclable because it is made of non-crosslinked polyethylene.
What can you do with polyethylene foam?
The possibilities with PE foams are endless. For example, PE can be laminated to cloth material to create flexible soft coolers. PE foam can also be used to insulate an area that is exposed to solvents and other petroleum products. The material can also protect your product from undesirable temperatures.
What makes Dow Ethafoam such a good product?
Dow Ethafoam. ETHAFOAM products are resilient in nature, giving them outstanding recovery characteristics that provide outstanding cushioning protection against repeated impacts. And ETHAFOAM products are available in a variety of strengths, making them suitable for protecting products ranging from just a few pounds up to hundreds…
What is the density of ethafoam 220 foam?
Medium-density ETHAFOAM™ 220 polyethylene foam provides strength and durability for your most challenging packaging applications. ETHAFOAM 220 is a strong, resilient, medium-density 2.2 pcf (35.2 kg/m3), closed-cell foam.
What are the requirements for Ethafoam military foam?
ETHAFOAM military series (M-series) foams to meet the stringent military and blowing agent requirements, with less than 10 percent LEL. ETHAFOAM M-series products also meet or exceed the requirements of CID A-A-59136 and PPP-C-1752.
Why does Ethafoam foam soften at higher temperatures?
Foams such as ETHAFOAM brand polyethylene foam tend to soften at higher temperatures, as this is a characteristic of the thermoplastic resins from which they are produced. As temperature is raised, the foam may therefore become too soft for some applications. Unfortunately, there is no consistent industry definition of “maximum use temperature.”