Many Polyurethane Foam Applications

While many customers use our equipment for foam-in-place packaging, there are so many more applications for polyurethane foam. Since customers continue to show us new ways to utilize the material, we never say we’re unable achieve a given purpose or fill a certain niche with our foam and our equipment, because we usually can!

The list of potential applications is endless. For example, people construct low-cost houses with our structural foam and equipment. Many operators add insulation to older houses by filling the space behind the drywall and between the joists, through a hole in the drywall that’s then patched over. Some people make buoys and floating docks with our flotation foam.

Some customers use our foam to encapsulate or waterproof electronic components. For example, one needed to dispense a very small amount of foam – a shot of less than one second – to insulate a type of sensor. We calibrated one of our timer units, which successfully made several hundred of their sensors using our foam and equipment.

If you think you can do it with polyurethane foam, you probably can and we are willing to help you try.

Unique Application

Several years ago, a person came to our facility with two blow-molded human torsos asking if we could fill them with foam. While that was simple, he also wanted to put a handful of paintball pellets into the molds before being filled. So, we let him do that, and then we filled the plastic forms with foam. He then fastened a cardboard back to each, thanked us, and left.

A couple of weeks later, the same person showed up with a van filled with the same clear plastic molds asking if we could fill more torsos. Instead of two, this time there were 200, which took us the entire day to fill with foam.

When he came back to collect his molds, I asked how he uses them. He said, “These are zombies. We paint the front of each one to look like a zombie, with green skin and decaying body parts.”

I asked about the paintball pellets. “The purpose of these is as rifle targets, and when you shoot them, they bleed!”

About a month later, he called to order one of our systems. I went to his factory to install it, helped work out the details of his process, and Zombie Industries became one of our largest customers for several years.