Reasons to Use Protective Foam Packaging

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By Joe Maldonado


Do you thing you know everything about protecting your products? You have now idea in how many ways protective foam can help you with your packaging!

In transporting you product the most important thing is its safety, or at least the diminution of risks in case of an accident. That is why you need a material with multiple properties and easy to use. In that case, foam can be a solution. It can protect an item if shocks occur. Foam has a lot more properties than that one. It is also a good thermo-insulating for the product that needs shifting and storing. An object you may want to transport can be composed by different materials. For example, a cellular contains: plastic, copper, iron, in a perfect order and display. But, there might be a thing you are not aware of, and that is that these materials contract and dilate at different temperatures, and that way your cellular can suffer damages. Only using foam you can maintain a certain temperature, and your product will be in perfect state.
Another quality of foam is that it is very easily modeled and it can turn very flat, prevent your fragile product to scratch.

A good example would be the appliances which were before packed and transported in wooden boxes, a rough material which caused several damages to the product. Making use of foam's proprieties we can easily transport the same fragile objects, without damage the product, because the foam is very smooth and the risk of friction is low. It can be modeled after the product or even poured over it and then removed when the object arrives at destination. Both pouring and removing can be easily and risk free done, because it doesn't contains acids or other substances that, by erosion could damage the product. We just tube of foam for the product. Arriving at destination the foam is easily cut and that way the product doesn't suffer any changes. Using the same principles we can transport even more fragile objects, as any product made of glass, a real nightmare for those who have to transport them. Now, all the worries are in vain, because you have the protective foam packaging. Whether you need to protect a heavy piece of equipment, or a delicate electronic component, the performance of polyurethane foam can be fine-tuned to meet most packaging needs. Industry sources suggest that flexible polyurethane foam can surely absorb impacts efficiently and recover its physical shape fast, and repeatedly. It is appropriate for packaging fragile items with a wide range of weights and sizes. In addition, flexible foam can easily be cut and shaped easily for bracing, supporting and wrapping objects. Two basic properties of flexible foam polyurethane foam are the keys to packaging performance. Density is the weight of a cubic foot of foam and is an indication of how much material is available to absorb energy. Density is independent of firmness.

It is demonstrated that protective foam packaging is the best way to make your product arrive safely to the destination but you may consider it a good solution for other products, that are not so fragile.




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