Processing Technology

Various foams and materials with widely varied properties can be bonded together. That allows the best properties of various foams to complement each other. The FoamPartner group uses water-based adhesives.

For manufacturing three-dimensional foam parts. The foam is shaped and cut using compression. The tool determines a wide range of shapes. 

Rotary or oscillating blades follow a CAD-programmed template. The optimal nesting offered by the cutting programs makes the best possible use of the material and saves cutting time.

Productive die-cutting systems can be used to manufacture large series and large volumes of similar products in a very short time. Our die-cutting systems produce up to 1000 parts per minute.

Core drills allow cylindrical holes to be made in the foam.
Smaller diameters are created using a drill, while larger cylinders are produced using a contour cutting system.

The FoamPartner group’s adhesive film coating machines can be used to combine a large number of foams with different materials to create many different laminates.

In order to give foam surfaces textile properties, the entire surface can be flock-coated with a wide range of flock-coating materials.

Fusing permanently bonds various foams together in a thermal process. Fusing is a cost-effective alternative to adhesive bonding, with the advantage that no adhesive residue is left on the parts.

In addition to numerous horizontal and vertical cutting machines, FoamPartner also has auxiliary equipment that can produce many different shapes and geometries.

Hot stamping permanently shapes foams using heat and pressure. This process alters the foam’s pore structure, density and physical properties. Hot stamping can be used to produce fine or coarse-structured surfaces.

Post-treatment of the foam surface to obtain or improve specific properties (e.g. flame protection, electrical conductivity, hydrophobia, antistatic features, etc.)

Our long slitting machine can slit blocks 30 to 120 meters long and process them into rolls. 

Challenging geometries and shapes are produced on milling machines. The latest machines allow for rational machining. FoamPartner can produce three-dimensional parts in a single work step. The milling machines can cut deep pockets into the solid material, and permit flexible processing of many different foam types.

FoamPartner has many years of experience in manufacturing challenging concave and convex blanks using mold profiling technology

Our profile cutting machines can create various nubbed profiles out of foam sheets. They can also process bonded and laminated foams, which can then be bonded or laminated with other materials.

We have four modern reticulation centers located around the world for block and rolled goods. Our foams are reticulated in a controlled way; in other words, the cell membranes are targeted and removed completely. That makes the foams more open-pored and creates ideal semi-finished products for filtration and impregnation.

18-head water jet cutting systems manufacture blanks and molds with extreme dimensional precision. Even the smallest parts can be precisely manufactured using a rational approach, without any tool costs.