The foam plastic industry has good development prospects and its application areas are constantly expanding.

Foam plastics, also known as microporous plastics, refer to polymer materials made with gaseous substances as the dispersed phase and solid resin as the dispersion medium. Compared with traditional plastics, foam plastics have the advantages of good electrical insulation properties, light weight, low density, sound absorption, and heat insulation, and have a wide range of applications. According to different hardness, foam plastics can be divided into three types: semi-soft foam, rigid foam and soft foam.

According to the “2022-2027 China Foam Plastics Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center, in Driven by national policy encouragement and market demand, my country’s foam plastic production continues to increase. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, my country’s foam plastic production will reach 2.601 million tons in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 1.4%. Guangdong, Zhejiang and Henan are the main foam plastic production areas in my country, and the above three provinces account for nearly 50% of my country’s total foam plastic production.

Foam plastics are widely used in a wide range of applications, including aerospace, automobile manufacturing, building materials, home appliances, medical equipment, national defense and military, etc. In the field of building materials, foam plastics can be used as thermal insulation materials and sound insulation materials. On the one hand, due to the stagnant air in the foam, the thermal conductivity is low, so it has excellent thermal insulation effect; on the other hand, the foam has a porous structure, which can absorb noise and has good sound insulation performance.

my country’s foam plastics industry started late, but the industry is developing rapidly. With the support of national policies, the prosperity of my country’s foam plastics industry continues to improve, attracting many companies to join the industry. Zhejiang Runyang New Materials Technology Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Crosslink Irradiation Materials Co., Ltd. and Hubei Xiangyuan New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. are my country’s leading foam plastics companies. Runyang Technology specializes in the R&D, production and sales of non-toxic and environmentally friendly polymer foams, and has a competitive advantage in the global market.

According to different raw materials, foam plastics can be subdivided into polystyrene (PS) foam, polyurethane (PUR) foam, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) foam, etc. In recent years, IXPE foam, as a new type of polymer foam, has gradually occupied a dominant position in the market. IXPE foam, also known as electronic radiation cross-linked polyethylene foam, uses radiation processing technology to cause structural changes in the raw materials to form a network of independent closed-cell foam. IXPE foam plastic has the advantages of environmental protection, corrosion resistance, sound insulation, high temperature resistance, etc., and can meet the application needs of many fields.

Industry analysts said that in recent years, the scope of application of foam plastics in my country has continued to expand, and market demand has driven the continued growth of its industry scale. Driven by environmental protection policies, IXPE foam plastics have gained broad development space as a new green and environmentally friendly product, and have gradually replaced traditional foam plastic products. As leading companies continue to make breakthroughs in production and research and development technology, the concentration of my country’s foam plastics industry is expected to further increase.