Reticulated Foam for the automotive air filter market
Reticulated Foam is an ingenious product that has been widely used in industries such as automotive, heating and ventilation. It has properties that make it ideal for use in the automotive air filter market and is versatile enough to be designed and shaped in any way that works best for a specific application. In fact, this type of Polyester Foam has changed the way that air filtration components are created today and provided a wealth of options for improving the ultimate effectiveness of designs.
What is Reticulated Foam?
It’s a type of Polyester Foam that has an open cell structure, which makes it ideal for air filtration. Creating Reticulated Foam means using a de-membraning process and it’s this that results in the ideal open cell foam for use in the automotive air filter market. Reticulated Foam has the lower pressure resistance that makes it well suited to air filtration but it is also great when it comes to dust holding properties. When you’re looking at Reticulated Foam it’s important to understand how it is graded, as this is done in pores. Each foam is graded on the basis of counting the number of cells per inch. The range of grades runs from 10ppi to 60ppi.
How does Reticulated Foam work?
This type of Polyester Foam is available in a range of different formats, including sheets, cylinders and cut pads. It can also be sewn to wire frames where the design requires and accommodates this very easily thanks to its natural properties. The idea of using the metal mesh is to provide additional stiffness where necessary — to create a more rigid panel from the Reticulated Foam. Using Reticulated Foam means having access to an incredibly versatile material, which can be shaped and converted into your required pad size easily. There are also ways to change the functionality of Reticulated Foam — for example, this type of open cell Polyester Foam can be combined with different pores sizes bonded together in order to deliver two stage filtration.
Where is Reticulated Foam used?
It’s a very common component in the automotive air filter market, as it has ideal properties for this application. The versatile nature of the foam, the way it can be made into rigid panels with the addition of metal mesh, as well as the fact that it can be converted easily into the right pad size — and formed into cylinders, cones and a range of other shapes — means that it’s ideal. You’ll also find Reticulated Foam used as air filters in other industries, including heating, ventilation and the air conditioning sector. It’s possible to upgrade the performance of the foam, depending on the desired application — an impregnated version is ideal where flame retardancy is required, for example. Carbon impregnation is also available.
Reticulated Foam has a lot of properties that make it the perfect component for the automotive air filter market. From its flexibility to the open cell design of this Polyester Foam, it’s the ideal choice.
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Originally published at https://www.kewell-converters.co.uk.
