Our investment in sustainable, high-performance materials ensures that we remain the preferred partner for industries looking to push the boundaries of lightweight, durable and sustainable materials.
Innovation in advanced foam materials has always been at the heart of the Zotefoams business model. For more than 100 years, we have pioneered the development of uniquely sustainable materials using supercritical fluid foaming technology.
Breakthrough technologies
By combining localised innovation with cutting-edge materials science, we can collaborate more effectively with our customers to develop sustainable solutions across a range of polymers.
With over 100 years of supercritical fluid foam experience and producing first-class raw materials, we continue to work closely with our customers to deliver fully engineered solutions for their business needs.
Sustainability focus
Our focus is on sustainable innovation – both enhancing existing technologies and developing new solutions to reduce energy consumption, emissions and waste across the entire value chain.
"From highly engineered materials to commodity materials, our leadership in foaming technologies enables us to work with an extensive range of polymers."
Ronan Cox
Zotefoams Group CEO
Supercritical fluid foaming
The principle of foaming using supercritical fluids is simple: we borrow an inert gas from the atmosphere and turn this into a supercritical fluid which we dissolve into a polymer. Then, under controlled conditions, we allow the fluid trapped in the polymer to return into a gas state which, in doing so, expands the polymer into a foam.