Thermoware Particle Foam Machinery BV

24/05/2024

At Thermoware, our commitment doesn’t end with delivering machines. We go the extra mile to ensure seamless integration into your operations.
Our team provides comprehensive service and installation support, ensuring your machines are set up correctly and ready to perform at their best.
Need assistance after installation? No problem! Thermoware offers planned service visits to keep your equipment running smoothly and efficiently

18/04/2024

European and regional contribution for a biologically recyclable alternative to EPS

A biobased and biodegradable alternative to EPS (expanded polystyrene) packaging materials based on starch foam. With a new process technology, companies from Barneveld, Doorn, Ede and Enschede will start working towards the goal of developing a sustainable alternative for packaging products heavier than 5 kilos. This alternative is recyclable, just like paper, but can also be composted.

Products, such as heating and ventilation equipment, furniture and white and brown goods, are currently packaged with fillers and corner pieces based on expanded polystyrene (EPS). There is an increasing need in the market for more environmentally friendly alternatives. Not only because legal restrictions are imposed, but also because companies and consumers no longer want to receive plastic and EPS. The material to be developed by PaperFoam and project partners must have comparable properties to EPS with regard to density, resilience, tensile and bending strength, but with a low carbon footprint.

The consortium consists of the following five partners: PaperFoam B.V. from Barneveld, Innograaf from Doorn, Thermoware Particle Foam Machinery from Barneveld, Jadima Fijnmetaalwerking from Ede and Vaventis from Enschede. Together they receive a subsidy of €583,538 from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), with co-financing from the province of Gelderland and Overijssel. The total investment costs amount to € 1,167,077.

The entrepreneurs have submitted a subsidy application for the project to the European Fund for Regional Development in the East of the Netherlands (ERDF East). The ERDF contribution is a subsidy for test and demonstration projects. This subsidy is intended for testing new applications and solutions from SMEs, so that innovations can be brought to the market more quickly. Innovations are important for the competitive position of companies and therefore for the regional economy. ERDF East is a European subsidy program to which the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and the provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel also contribute. Helga Witjes, deputy for Economy & Innovation of the province of Gelderland: “For an increasing number of companies in our province, circular working is no longer a future but an everyday practice. They know this is the only way forward. They earn money and create new jobs with circular innovations.”

26/03/2024

Thermoware’s in-house manufacturing of complete moulds and mould parts

Our mechanical engineers produce the CAD-drawings. After ‘translation’ into CAM-files our CNC milling and turning shop manufacture all required parts.
Fast, efficient, lowest costs, shortest lines of communication – ‘on the ball’…!!

14/12/2023

Last week Dave Gijsberts and Rik Lodders exhibited at FoamExpo in Stuttgart.

How to reduce the energy consumption of the moulding process how to (better) mould small and complex EPP parts proved to be major issues for the moulding industry.

Thermoware has the answer to this with its dry moulding process!

Please contact us.

23/11/2023

Last week, we celebrated Johan's 25-year working anniversary. A milestone to be proud of!

We also said goodbye to our colleague Henk. After more than of 35 years of working at Thermoware, Henk is going to enjoy his well-earned retirement.

09/11/2023

Visit us at our booth 117 in Stuttgart, Germany on 5-7 December 2023.

We are eager to discuss the possibilities our Dry Moulding technology offers for the manufacturing of thin-walled and detailed foam parts out of as EPP, EPS, etc.

Register now

26/10/2023

In parallel finalizing a large order of EPS production lines for Latin America, as well a EPP moulding machine for a European customer.
This next to development work on EPP and EPS thin-wall prototyping, several biobased foams, and ongoing installations in several continents.

12/10/2023

Thermoware has been nominated for the Innovation Top 100 of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce!
Much appreciated!

Recognition for the efforts made by our team over the last years, as well as a stimulus to keep pushing…
More and more our dry moulding technology is delivering on operational benefits as well as sustainability.

27/09/2023

Just added a new 5-axis CNC milling machine with automated component and tool change to our existing CNC turning and CNC milling machines.

- For the manufacturing of complete moulds and mould (parts).
- In order to optimize:
o cost price
o lead times
o flexibility
- Both for large series of production moulds, as well as for prototyping.

31/08/2023

The dry-moulding technology has proven to outperform conventional particle foam moulding for thinner parts (roughly 2 – 50 mm depending on type of material type):

Ability to manufacture very thin foam parts
1. Most often single molds are used, to allow for optimal filling and steaming of all cavity parts
2. Customized filling systems diminishes issues with filling of the cavities
3. Indirect heating and the absence of condensate and moist leads to optimal fusion, also of very thin segments of the produced part
4. Much more possibilities to steer the process than conventionally, to allow for optimal process settings of the tools

Lower production costs
1. Faster cycle times – up to 50%
2. Lower steam consumption – up to 50%
3. Lower electricity consumption
4. Less material:
-Ability to reduce the material density due to better fusion of the particles
-Ability to reduce the thickness of the parts
-Much lower rejection rate due to optimal processing
5. Lower tool costs – extremely high lifetime due to usage of bronze
6. Lower machine costs – relatively small and simple machines
7. Lower operational costs:
-Less floor space required in factory
-(Often) no need to dry parts after production
-(Often) lower labour costs

Higher product quality:
Optimal processing of the particles in the mold cavity leads to a higher product quality.
This is achieved due to a combination of factors.
- The usage of single molds are used, to allow for optimal filling and steaming of all cavity parts
- Indirect heating of the (particles in the) cavity and the absence of condensate and moist in the fusion process leads to optimal fusion of the particles

Higher sustainability
- Up to 50% less steam required
- Less material – lower densities, thinner parts, less scrap
- No pollution of the waste water with excretions from the material or mold (microplastics, residues of coatings, etc.)
- Much longer lifetimes of tools due to the usage of materials such as bronze