Will you use foam in your life? Perhaps
many people will shake their heads subconsciously when they hear this word for
the first time, but in fact, each of us will use foam more or less in our
lives. The birth of plastic is only a hundred years old, and it has been
integrated into every aspect of our lives. However, in the face of a large
number of non-biodegradable EPS foams, the foam recycling machine has
become a new breakthrough.
We have been with foam for many years, one
of the most widely used and common plastics. Expanded polystyrene, a
thermoplastic, melts when heated and turns solid when cooled. Foam has been
used across the centuries for its technical versatility and low cost.
Commercially developed in Germany in the
1930s, Dow scientist Ray McIntyre invented extruded polystyrene foam
(Styrofoam) in 1941, a lightweight waterproof material originally used to make
life rafts. The Dow Chemical Company subsequently manufactured it as a brand
name for a rigid blue insulating material. Today, it has become an important
part of creating economic benefits.
A large amount of foam is used as packaging
products, especially in the logistics industry and manufacturing, they are
satisfied with the stability of EPS foam, even in the first few decades of EPS,
everyone is very satisfied with it, until When more and more foam piled up and
couldn’t handle it, people’s evaluation of foam took a sharp turn.
White pollution, ocean killers, environmental
destroyers are all aliases for foam, and those names really don’t sound
friendly, but should we say no to EPS foam? I’m sorry, nothing can completely
replace foam right now, and no matter what we think of it, we won’t be able to
part ways with it any time soon.
The foam densifier is a mechanical
equipment used to recycle compressed EPS foam. This equipment can squeeze out
the air and even the moisture in the foam. After the hot melt treatment, the
volume of these white foams is greatly reduced , even up to 90:1 compression.
The processed EPS foam compressed material will become a new commodity for sale
in the international market.