Custom Foam Seals & Gaskets
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Highly resilient and water resistant FOAM-TITE® seals are the norm in the residential window industry to seal out air, water and dust. These high performance seals are designed and manufactured to meet the custom engineering needs for a variety of industrial and commercial markets. |
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Foam-Tite Products: An extruded TPE (more specifically; a thermoplastic vulcanizate or "TPV") foam shape is surrounded by tough but pliable TPV skin and heat fused onto a Polypropylene carrier. The combined composite product can be enhanced with the addition of co-extruded components or extrusion design features to provide an infinite variety of end product shapes, sizes and configurations with as many as six materials, all from a single, efficient, continuous extrusion manufacturing process. Since each component is extruded independently, all components can be color matched to one standard or individual components can be colored as required. |
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The Foam: A patented TPV foam process generates a unique, nearly closed-cell, water-blown foam with cell sizes in the .005" to .010" range with densities from .14 g/cm3 to .50 g/cm3. The extruded foam is available in a variety of custom shapes including rounds, squares, hollows, and c-folds. Size availability is from .01 in2 to .44 in2 in cross sectional area. Foam is available in shapes in which the thickness is greater than 20% of its width. |
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The Skin: A patented coating process applies TPV skin over at least part of the combined foam/carrier, bonding them together. The skin can be applied in a layer from .005" to .030" thick in configurations as required. Skin materials are available in multiple durometers (hardnesses), and are typically 87 Shore A. Features such as Pro-Slip HDPE stripes, fins, or CladFT non-woven fabric laminate may be applied to provide specialized performance value to the end product. |
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The Carrier: A polypropylene extrusion is the platform for mounting the seal to the substrate. Typical mounting methods include barb insertion legs, edge clips, t-slots, darts and two sided tapes. We'll work to create a mounting method that best suits your application. |
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Performance
- Compression force (CLD): Design range of 5lbs to 30lbs per inch @ 50% compression @ 70°F
- Compression set: Our foam will recover to 75% to 95% of its original, uncompressed size depending on part geometry and application parameters.
- Foam can be elongated to as much as 200% of its length.
- Recommended temp range: Remains flexible and has useful range through -40°F to 160°F.
- FR: Not Rated.
- Water Resistance: Foam-Tite's non-wicking foam provides for minimal water absorption. A water gain of up to 1% is typical.
- Chemical resistance: Unaffected by most cleaning agents, detergents, common household cleaners, and mild acids and alkalis. Our products and are not recommended for use with organic solvents.
- Abrasion resistance: Typically shows minimal wear after 100,000 cycles.
- Tear resistance: Tough skin resists punctures and tears. Custom skin thicknesses are available.
- Aging: Excellent aging characteristics provide for a pliable, functional product for up to 25 years of outdoor exposure.
- UV Color fading: No color fading on most colors after 1,000 hours of UVB exposure.
- UV degradation: No physical degradation after 2,000 hours of UVB exposure.
- AAMA: All seals are tested to AAMA 702 standards and have received category 1 ratings in compression set and shrinkage.
- Recyclability: Thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPV's) are part of the thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) family and are fully recyclable materials.
- Weldability: Foam-Tite products can be heat fused at temperatures from 350 - 450 degrees F.
How to order
Volumes: 100K foot minimum annual requirement. Although most Foam-Tite products are designed for specific applications there are already well over 200 standard products that come in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors. Our Product Development Team will assist you in optimizing a design to meet your needs.
Product development: Send us your design drawings, applications or discuss your needs with our Engineering team. Confidentiality is our specialty.
Pricing: Most products can be purchased for less than $.25 per foot, but the minimum commitment for custom products is 100,000 feet per year.
For inquiries, contact Maxine at 1.800.217.5757 or Contact Us
Location:
57 Hunt Road
Amesbury, MA 01913
978-388-0581
800-289-6699 (fax)
