Foam gives designers great flexibility to use special and distinctive shapes. Designs that can be realised easily and economically. IFG gladly advises you on all possibilities and options regarding the use and applications of foam.

The basic materials that IFG uses are synthetic materials. This means that they are manufactured via an industrial chemical process. They are so-called ‘polymers’. A polymer is a substance that consists of molecules linked together in a sequence of several identical parts.

Foam is created by creating gas pockets during the production of the polymer. The pockets of gas can be closed or open (open-cell or closed-cell foam). This structure obviously has an effect on the technical properties of the foam.

The structure of the gas pockets determines, among other things, the weight, resilience and strength of the foam. By combining and varying, these foam properties can be expanded in various ways.

For example, there are crosslinked and non-crosslinked types of foam. In the first variant, the molecules of the foam are linked together to form a three-dimensional network. The second variant does not. This leads to unique properties.