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EPS Foam Plant Paul Russell

EPS Processing Pre-expansion Aging The Molding Process The Pre-expansion phase of manufacturing is simply the swelling of the small bead to almost 50 times its original size through heating and rapid release of the gas from the bead during its glass transition phase.         Aging  After the expanded beads have been dried they are blown into large open storage bags for the aging process. The beads have been under a dynamic physical transformation that has left them with an internal vacuum in the millions of cells created. The Molding Process  After the aging is finished, the beads are then ready for molding into blocks. Since this is a confined environments, the only way the beads can expand is to fill up any voids between them causing the soft surfaces to fuse together into a polyhedral type solid structure. Shape molding machines   Expanded bead fills the mold cavity via pneumatic filling tubes. The mould walls are also equipped with holes to connect the mold with the steam chamber. Steam is applied to the EPS bead filled cavity of the mold. The steam causes the beads to soften again and to expand. The expansion pressure (around 1 bar) compresses the beads against each other and at the same time forces them against the mold walls so that they fuse together. The resultant part is then cooled by spraying water onto the mould and by applying a vacuum. When cooled down sufficiently, the final molded part can be taken from the mould. Curing  Heating curing is the next step of our process. This not only accelerates the curing process of the freshly molded blocks, but also assure that the material is dimensionally stable and provides a completely, dry material for best fabrication results.

Material Ingredients 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% EPS <0.1% Rest-Monomer 6% Pentane 80% 60% 93.9% PS 40% 20% 0% EPS

Infrastructure - $2.0 million (boiler, pipes, material storage, pentane destruction, drying/curing ovens) Molding Machines: between $200,000 - $400,000 each, Operating the plant: unless you have about the equivalent of $500,000/month in coolers being produced the plant won’t make money. http://usa.foameps.com/english/layout.asp

Typical EPS Molder Plant (Base-Functions) Cotton-Silos for Pre-expanded beads Production Warehouse (much larger) Drying-Chamber Tool Preparation Maintenance Pre-Expansion Raw-material Storage (separate Building) Tool-storage Often separate building or outside Steam, Vacuum Office Sample-Making QA Returned-EPS Recycling Centers, Usually outside Old-EPS Shredder Example: Revenue: $20 Million Employees: 150 Size: 30.000 m² Machines: 38 EPS + 8 EPP Annual Weights: 3500 tons EPS, 400 tons EPP Others: approx. 30 Mio. Parts/Year, 720.000 m³ Volume

Pre-expander

Principle of Bead Expansion and Bead-Fusion Theoretical shape of a bead, cut at the end of an extruder (at raw-material vendors like BASF). The extruder is permanently pressing the hot, liquid and pressurized mixture of polystyrene and liquid PENTANE in cooling channels, in which the material is cooling down and turning into solid spaghetti, then cut into little cylinder shaped pieces. The gas Pentane is thereby kept in the solid PS and cannot expand, only if the PS is softened by the impact of heat. Soft and partially melted beads are sticking together. The impact of heat is softening the rubber ball allowing the spring to expand. The happens as well in the pre-expander and later again within the tool. Pre-expansion is required, because the tiny raw-material pieces would cause problems in the material injection process. To explain the principle: a compressed spring inside a rubber-ball

Pre-Expansion Process Steam Raw-material Level-sensors Silo Online Scale Air afterwards up to 3 days intermediate storage in cotton-silos. Not the raw-material, but mainly the pre-expansion process defines the later material-density (only EPS, not EPP) Pre-expander (batch)

Aging process

AB‘s Tool, the Part, Molding AB-cushion AB-owned Tool

Molding Process Steps Ejector Water-spayers Fill-Injector Tool Tool-Support-Beams Steam-Chamber moving Steam-Chamber fixed

Ejector Water-spayers Fill-Injector Tool Tool-Support-Beams Steam-Chamber moving Steam-Chamber fixed

Ejector Water-spayers Fill-Injector Tool Tool-Support-Beams Steam-Chamber moving Steam-Chamber fixed

Molding

Possible Tool-Layouts Break line, approx. 9 mm wide (usually not containing cooling functionality) Min-distance 20 mm for cooling R L L R R L R L 4 Cavities, 2 Set Tool 2 Cavities, 1 Set Tool 8 Cavities, 4 Set Tool R L R L 8 Cavities, 4 Set Tool, separated in 2 x 2 Sets, which can be operated separately, interesting for tool-changes during product lifetime. 6 Cavities, Sets not connected by a break-line