March 30th, 2011
Repairing or replacing your roof can be hugely expensive. When you have it completed, you’ll want to make sure that high quality, long lasting material is used. If your roof needs work, then you should consider using EPDM foam rubber. EPDM has many advantages when used as a roofing material.
• EPDM is extremely durable and long lasting. If you install an EPDM roof, it should last for the life of the building, with little or no maintenance.
• EPDM is very easy to install. Depending on the size of your roof, an installation could be completed in a few hours. It’s also very affordable to both purchase and install.
• Many green societies recommend the use of EPDM as a roofing material. This is because it’s made from eco-friendly materials and very little energy is used in its installation.
• Not all roofs are equal. Unusually shaped buildings may not lend themselves to rigid roofing materials. EPDM is an extremely flexible rubber, meaning that it can be it can be moulded to any shape of roof. It can even fit around chimneys, ridges and porches.
• EPDM is also extremely waterproof. Rain and extremely weather can cause significant damage to roofs. EPDM can effectively protect the structure of your roof from rain.
• Should your roof become damaged, small amounts of EPDM can be used to repair any cracks or dents in the material. It’s an excellent choice if you only need to repair a small part of your roof.
As a leading UK foam company, we can offer any advice or information you may need.
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March 27th, 2011
In this age of austerity, it’s important that we make savings wherever we can. Not having your home properly insulated can add hundreds of pounds to your energy bills every year. Open cell foam not only has excellent insulating properties, it’s also affordable and easy to install. Insulating your home with open cell foam can contribute to significant energy savings.
Open cell foam can easily be installed in the home by the owner. It therefore doesn’t incur any significant labour costs. It’s also incredibly environmentally friendly, with around 20% or it being made from renewable sources. This makes the insulation much less harmful to use.
The effectiveness of insulation is measured by how well it holds heat inside your home. Open cell foam is denser than traditional insulating materials, meaning that it can hold heat in your home extremely effectively. It completely fills the area it is sprayed into, meaning that your home will be thoroughly insulated all over.
Because they are kept in dark, damp areas, many traditional insulating products can be prone to mould and mildew over time. This can damage the walls of your home, and even make you ill. Open cell foam contains ingredients that help to prevent the build-up of mould and mildew, making it extremely safe to have in your home.
Open cell insulation foam is extremely long lasting. Once you have sprayed the foam, it will last as long as the house. They spray application also means that it can fit into any tight nooks and crevices and hard to reach areas.
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March 23rd, 2011
When you send a package through the post, they can easily be subjected to bangs, bumps and scrapes. No matter how much your package is worth, you’ll want to make sure that it arrives at its destination in one piece. It’s essential that you use some form of protective material around your item to absorb shocks and stop it from getting damaged. Foam is perfect for this.
Foam packaging is very light in weight, strong and easy to use. The lightweight nature of foam packaging means that it will have little or no effect on the cost of shipping your package. It’s great at absorbing shocks and can be moulded to fit around items of any shape or size.
Foam packaging can take a number of different forms, most usually foam rolls, foam sheets or foam chips. They all have the same protective qualities, but they each have different benefits.
Foam rolls and foam sheets have the benefit of being recyclable by whoever receives the package; they can simply reuse the foam for any packages they may send. It can be used in a similar way to bubble wrap, being cut to size and wrapped around the item.
Chipfoam have the advantage of being able to mould around even the most unusually shaped packages. Simply put your item into a container and pour the foam chips around it, and your package will be protected from bumps and shocks. They can then be reused by the person who receives the parcel.
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March 20th, 2011
Our bath and showering rituals offer us a period in the day when we can truly relax and pamper ourselves. While bath sponges may not seem like a particularly lavish item, natural sponges are just that, and can change the way you feel about bathing. Natural sponge can contribute to a luxurious bathing regime, offering an experience that artificial bath sponges cannot.
Natural sponges originate from the sea and are harvested from the ocean floor. During their life, they travel the ocean feeding on nutrients. Their structure means that they don’t get weighed down by particles, and their natural pores enable them to easily flush out water. These properties ideally lend themselves to bathing and showering.
Natural bath sponges can hold far more water than artificial ones, as well bath or shower gel. They also provide much more foam and suds from your shower gel when you are bathing. Natural bath sponges also have exfoliating properties yet are incredibly gentle on the skin. While you are bathing, dead skin cells are gently lifted away from the body, and are then completed flushed out of the sponge, leaving your skin feeling incredibly clean and fresh. After a bath or shower using a natural sponge, your body will feel refreshed and your skin will have a natural glow.
If you are looking for natural sponges, good foam manufacturers, like Technical Foam Services, are experts in responsibly sourcing high quality natural sponges and loofahs from all over the world.
We are a leading UK foam company, so give us a try today.
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March 17th, 2011
A good night’s sleep is extremely important. Lack of sleep can cause fatigue, weight gain or even depression. One of the most important factors that contributes to a good night’s sleep is the quality of your mattress. If you wake up in the morning feeling sluggish and sore, then you may benefit from a visco memory foam mattress. By switching to a memory foam mattress, you could find that you wake up in the morning feeling considerably more alert, and any pains that you have throughout your body could subside.
Memory foam mattresses offer unprecedented support and comfort. They are made from intelligent foam that adjusts to the temperature of your body, moulding the mattress around every contour. Whenever you move in the night, the mattress adjusts to your shape. This ensures that your weight is distributed evenly, eliminating pain from pressure points around the body. Because you won’t be woken by discomfort from your mattress during the night, you’ll find that you wake up in the morning feeling much more alert.
Visco memory foam mattresses are the perfect choice for couples. With traditional mattresses, users could easily be woken by their partner moving around in the night. There is very little motion transfer with a memory foam mattress, meaning that, should one partner move, the other won’t feel it at all. No matter how much your partner moves in the night, you should have an undisturbed, refreshing, restful night’s sleep.
As a leading UK foam company, we can provide you with fantastic memory foam.
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March 14th, 2011
www.technicalfoamservices.co.uk has remained at the cutting edge of the provision of flexible foams and engineered foam for over twenty years. From our base in Corby, Northamptonshire, we export all types of innovative and versatile flexible foams for a plethora of disparate clients in the United Kingdom, the European mainland and worldwide. At Technical Foam Services, we are passionate about the production of engineered foam and control each stage of the process of production; from inception to design to manufacture and delivery.
In fact, our highly skilled engineers actually design custom made machinery for the manufacture of our foam and rubber products and we work intimately with supplier s of raw materials and clients alike in order to create the perfect engineered products which completely satisfy client requirements, using the best materials available worldwide. This type of symbiotic relationship allows us to liaise between suppliers and clients at every stage of the process, keeping costs to a minimum, increasing efficiency and working creatively in order to achieve the optimum end result. Furthermore, we are a straight-talking and square-dealing firm, so we will always advise clients honestly over our capacity to satisfy their needs, even in the rare occasions when another firm may be in a better position to carry out the work required.
We pride ourselves on old fashioned values of good service, competitive prices and outstanding products – such as closed cell foams – because we know that these values are always valued by customers. For more details of our specific products and services and to find out exactly how we can help you and your organisation, visit www.technicalfoamservices.co.uk today. We are ready and able to offer the best advice in the business totally free of charge – so what do you have to lose?
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March 11th, 2011
Visco memory foam is polyurethane foam with additional chemicals added which make it more dense and viscous. Because high-density visco memory foam reacts to body heat and moulds to a warm human body in a few minutes, it has become most familiar to the public as material used for mattresses and pillowcases. NASA first developed memory foam in 1966 as a material to be used to make aircraft cushions more comfortable and ergonomic. The material was released to the public domain in the 1980s and was eventually further developed for use in mattresses and pillows in the early 1990s.
These ultra comfortable and supportive mattresses were ideal for hospital patients whose existing conditions were exacerbated by the effects of being bed-bound, as well as providing new levels of sleep comfort for the general population. At www.technicalfoamservices.co.uk we are premium memory foam suppliers but we have diversified and developed memory foam for many innovative industry based bespoke applications.
Memory foam is a fantastic material because as well as moulding around objects and persons for extra comfort, it also regains its original shape and retains its structural integrity after compression, giving it strength and flexibility as well as comfort and cushioning properties.
We are amongst the elite level of memory foam suppliers because we now produce twenty different rigidities and densities of foam, which has made this already versatile material even more adaptable to novel applications such as stress relief toys, keyboard supports for computers, motorcycle and sports helmet linings. Moreover, we can have our designers produce bespoke products in an endless array of styles and shapes including egg box profiling and three dimensional foam blocks and shapes.
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March 8th, 2011
From bath sponges to natural sponge, www.technicalfoamservices.co.uk has the greatest selection of sponges available anywhere. Natural sea sponges are amazing products which are perfect for a number of diverse uses including bathing the sensitive skins of babies and toddlers, wall painting, cosmetic application, and exfoliating.
Technical Foam Services is the largest supplier of natural sponge products in the United Kingdom, importing and distributing thousands of loofahs, silk sponges, honeycomb sponges and wool and grass sponges to discerning customers across the nation each year. Of course, our converted cellulose sponges are merely our interpretation of natural sponges and are used as bath sponges, car sponges and more abrasive and tough sponges for domestic and industrial cleaning.
Using the latest manufacturing techniques and our premium connections with the greatest material suppliers, we can manufacture and size, shape and specification of sponge for clients, and we also offer flow wrapping and retail services to customers. Our precision engineering equipment can shape and contour sponge to any shape as well as laminating it to nylon as and when required according to customers desires.
As well as providing outstanding foam products, we also supply some of the most prestigious firms in the country with bath sponges and domestic sponges, including Morrisons, Mothercare, Tesco and Sainsbury’s and we always welcome enquiries about the multifarious applications and amazing properties of sponge.
Our retail sales director, David Hart, is one of the world’s leading authorities on natural sponges and welcomes absolutely any enquiries on both natural and synthetic sponge products from large and small organisations alike. For superb sponge products, always choose www.technicalfoamservices.co.uk
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March 5th, 2011
Flexible foams and various other foam products are firm favourites for use in packaging because of their strength, flexibility and durability. At www.technicalfoamservices.co.uk we specialise in flexible foams for packaging, including chip foam, high density foam and egg–crate foam. Protection, shipping and storage is very important for many products and our packaging foam ticks every box, every time.
We manufacture foams in a wide variety of densities, shapes and sizes as well as a range of different material compositions, including open cell foams such as egg-create and chip foam, which are suitable for the packaging of many types of sensitive and fragile products.
Super tough foam products such as jiffycell stratocell and plastazote are ideal for the safe storage and transit of delicate electronic components and equipment and sensitive electrical equipment such as speaker boxes, mixers and amplifiers.
Our bespoke packaging foams can be created in laminated forms as well as in absolutely any colour and shape, so no matter your unique requirements and particular products, we can most definitely satisfy your needs. Our depth of knowledge and technical expertise is unsurpassed, and we are the go-to people for prestigious corporations such as McDonalds and high street favourites such as Mothercare, as well as ethical and innovative companies such as The Body Shop.
Whatever your packaging needs, Technical Foam Services is more than happy to help you to develop the most secure and product-appropriate packaging possible. For more details of our packaging products and solutions, our site contains all the information you could need.
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March 2nd, 2011
Unlike other foam manufacturers, we are continually fascinated and inspired by the amazing range of uses and applications from foam products. And because we control the entire process from the design and manufacture of high grade engineering machinery to the manufacture and delivery of cutting edge foam products around the globe, such as memory foam, our service standards and product perfection is at an elite level.
Our engineers are technical experts but they are also artists, who can create beautiful and practical products which are aesthetically pleasing yet completely functional. We create foams for industrial uses in the HVAC and Construction sectors, automobile, transport, electronics, engineering and heavy industry and science and medicine sectors as well as foam for domestic uses such as cleaning, aquatic filters, motorcycle and car filters, cosmetic applications, stationery, bedding and furnishing, sorts, promotional products and printer inks.
It becomes obvious just how versatile and useful foam is and we use our engineering and technical skills to harness the dynamic properties of this wonderful material in order to fashion it into shapes and designs which not only look great but make our lives so much easier. We also manufacture and design a magnificent range of rubber products including gaskets and mouldings, silicone products and neoprene and nitrile products.
www.technicalfoamservices.co.uk have been in business for over twenty years and we intend to remain at the top of our game for years to come, but to do so we need to maintain our dedication to customer service excellence and product innovation. We look forward to building new product bases and relationships with a wide variety of customers in all sectors.
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