Dyplast Exhibiting at CAMX 2018

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Dyplast is excited about the upcoming CAMX Conference (Composites and Advanced Materials Expo) in Dallas where we will be exhibiting October 16-18. Our polyisocyanurate and polystyrene composite rigid foams are increasingly recognized as superior to alternative composite substrates such as balsa and honeycomb designs - - and lower cost in many cases. Dyplast’s high capacity production and quick turn-around on high-strength light-weight rigid foam sheets can add significant value to demanding composite applications - - including those with large dimensions and precision tolerances. To showcase our ability to customize rigid foams for unique projects we will be displaying a Texas Long Horn, the State of Texas, an Oil pump, and a bucking bronco. We’ll have a drawing at the end of the auction for companies interested in displaying these items in their offices.

We invite you to visit Dyplast’s booth and speak with our experts in composite applications.

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Dyplast Products Releases - QWIK GUIDE: GeoFoam (Geo-Technical EPS)

Dyplast Products recently issued another a one-page Qwik Guide on Dyplast® EPS GeoFoam. What is Geofoam? It is a large expanded polystyrene (EPS) rigid foam block, typically used as a light-weight/high-strength structural replacement for soil in geo-technical projects as shown in our case study entitled GeoFoam Project: Sharpes Ferry Bridge or as structural alternatives in applications such as stadium seating and swimming pool foundations in Florida's high-rise hotels and residences.  Dyplast GeoFoam is approximately 1% of the weight of most sandy and/or average moisture soils, and is particularly advantageous in applications where proper soil alternatives. 

This Qwik Guide can be found on our web-site www.dyplast.com under the resources drop down.

Dyplast Products receives Theodore H. Brodie Distinguished Safety Award for 2017

The National Insulation Association (NIA) announced Dyplast Products as the recipient of its 2017 Theodore H. Brodie Distinguished (Platinum) Safety Award at its 63rd Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida. This will be the 5th consecutive year that Dyplast has been honored with  the Platinum award, NIA's highest level.

Previously, Dyplast received its first Silver Award in 2012 and from 2013-16 received 4 Platinum Awards. Congratulations to the entire Dyplast Team on this outstanding achievement!

Dyplast to suspend operations in advance of Hurricane Irma

Dyplast Products, LLC of Miami FL will be impacted by hurricane IRMA and as such, Dyplast has activated its Hurricane Preparation Plan.

Dyplast will suspend operations Friday night September 8, 2017 and resume once the storm’s impact is fully assessed including the region’s ability to recover.

We thank all our Miami based employees for their shut down efforts. They are in our thoughts and prayers.

Dyplast personnel will communicate with you as soon as our operations resume. If you have any questions please contact your Account Manager or myself.

Thank you for your patience and support during this uncertain time.

Joe Hughes

VP Sales and Marketing

Mobile: 305-904-4059

Dyplast's latest Customer Bulletin, 0717 - ISO-C1® Polyisocyanurate Insulation Flame Spread and Smoke Development

Dyplast's latest Customer Bulletin, 0717 - ISO-C1® Polyisocyanurate Insulation Flame Spread and Smoke Development, is another in a series of white papers aimed at providing our clients, engineers, contractors, fabricators, and friends with objective information on competitive products and on items that affect our industry.

Marketing literature for insulation products on the internet and in printed media often address the flame spread index (FSI) and smoke developed index (SDI) as measured in accordance with ASTM E84 or comparable standards. This updated (0909) Customer Bulletin provides factual, clarifying information concerning ISO-C1's FSI and SDI as well as other important points relating to the combustion properties of polyisocyanurate foam.

Customer Bulletin, 0717 - ISO-C1 Polyisocyanurate Insulation Flame Spread and Smoke Development

On May 30, 2017 Dyplast sent to our readership another related document, the reprint of the American Chemistry Council's Center for the Polyurethanes Industry, Question and Answer: Smoke Toxicity document. The document contains two sections, General Information on Smoke Toxicity followed by a section with Information Specific to Polyurethane Products. 

Click the link below for more information. 

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For the past 8 years Dyplast has dedicated time and resources to producing Technical and Customer Bulletins in order to provide customers and potential customers information regarding a variety of timely topics that impact the insulation industry. The complete list can be accessed at...

Dyplast Technical Bulletins

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Dyplast Products Robert Sanchinel promoted Sr. Account Manager

Dyplast Products, LLC is pleased to announce that on May 10, 2017 Robert Sanchinel was promoted to Sr. Account Manager. Robert became a Dyplast (Apache) employee 25 years ago starting in the EPS production department. He became the lead CAD/CAM operator and was promoted to an EPS sales representative. In 2012, he expanded his EPS sales responsibilities by adding ISO-C1® to his portfolio as the Southeast and Caribbean Account Manager.

As a Sr. Account Manager, Robert is responsible for managing and expanding all the Dyplast EPS sales including developing new EPS business opportunities. He will continue to manage the ISO-C1 sales in Florida and the Caribbean.

The Dyplast Team wishes Robert continued success in his new position.

Dyplast awarded Manufacturer of the Year by South Florida Manufacturers Association

Dyplast was awarded the Manufacturer of the Year by the South Florida Manufacturers Association at the 38th Annual Recognition of Excellence Banquet dinner held on March 23rd at The JA World Huizenga Center at Broward College in Coconut Creek, Florida. Ted Berglund, Vincent Fuster, Ramon Betancourt and Yamilet Ramirez represented Dyplast at the event.

SFMA celebrates excellence in the manufacturing sector by recognizing both individuals and companies, who through a very demanding ranking process, demonstrate distinction in the categories of Employee of the Year and Manufacturer of the Year recipients. Dyplast was honored within its class (41 - 80 Employees) taking the winning spot of becoming the Best Manufacturer of the Year.  This recognition by the SFMA put Dyplast in the unique position of advancing to the state level competition - Florida Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence (SMBE) where once again through a rigorous ranking process Dyplast will be evaluated and considered for an award.  The SMBE award ceremony will take place in Orlando in June.

See Press Release by SFMA

Dyplast publishes new article, "Insulation Installation" in LNG magazine

The fifth Dyplast article published in LNG Industry magazine is entitled "Insulation Installation". Dyplast has devoted significant resources to producing and providing the insulation industry with in depth analysis and explanation of leading industry issues through its articles in LNG magazine. Previous Articles include...

LNG Industry Magazine (Mission Critical) July 2015

LNG Industry Magazine (Logical Thinking) Feb 2016

LNG Industry Magazine (Risk Mitigation, Beyond Standards) July 2016

LNG Industry Magazine (Commercial Quality Control The Missing Link) Jan 2017

Below is an exerpt of the new article..."Insulation Installation"

"Failures at a new LNG facility during the first few months of initial operations can be expensive and cause damage to a company's image. Therefore, most companies do everything possible to ensure a 'perfect start-up', but this is easier said than done. Identifying what may ultimately cause problems is a first step to controlling and eliminating those problems. Although it may be challenging to anticipate the main reasons for forced shutdowns or curtailments during the first months of operation, poor design and installation of the insulation system are clearly on the list.

While many of the principles that are discussed are applicable to any insulant, this article focuses on polyisocyanurate (polyiso) and cellular glass (cell glass), since there is more long-term experience with those insulants, with successful service, with no failures over periods of 20 years and more."

Click below to read full Article 

 LNG Magazine (Insulation Installation) March 2017 

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Dyplast new Article, “Commercial Quality Control: The Missing Link”, in LNG Industry Magazine

Dyplast Products has published its latest article in LNG Magazine titled “Commercial Quality Control: The Missing Link”. In an era with disparate pricing, a multiplicity of owners/stakeholders, long-term price volatility, multiple concurrent plant constructions, a shortage of skilled personnel, and increasingly complex technologies, owners/stakeholders in LNG projects increasingly face new risks.

This article introduces commercial quality control as an approach to move more impact factors to the controllable side of the ledger, and also as a way of better identifying and mitigating risks across the project lifecycle – beginning at project inception, but encompassing development, financing, construction and operations.

Click here to read full article 

LNG Magazine (Commercial Quality Control: The Missing Link)

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Ted TALK #3: “Due Diligence!”

Ted TALK: “Due Diligence!”

Dyplast’s ongoing survey of below-ambient insulation applications indicates that over 65% of projects fail to exercise reasonable due diligence that would have otherwise resulted in lower capital costs while achieving higher thermal efficiencies.

I’ve spoken on this before, particularly at Conferences, on Panels, and within Industry Magazines. Due diligence expresses the care that a reasonable person exercises to research, analyze, and prepare for a transaction, process, or strategy. 

My many esteemed colleagues will echo my personal astonishment regarding how many insulants are selected without the supplier even demonstrating compliance with applicable Codes and Standards such as ASTM, CINI, etc. - - measured by an independent third party - - not by an in-house lab, and not a product formulation different from the product delivered. And since insulants are meant to insulate over the long term, due diligence is also intended to ensure the life-cycle balance of cost versus performance is achieved.

It is increasingly incumbent on engineers, specifiers, asset owners, and stakeholders to be diligent regarding the facts, the relevance of the facts, and full disclosure of facts. A life-cycle costing of the insulation system is also warranted in the majority of applications.

Respectfully

Ted Berglund

President

Dyplast Products

www.dyplast.com

Ted TALK #2: “Honest Talk”

Ted TALK: "Honest Talk"

Okay, yes, a rather direct statement - - yet more-so a promise from Dyplast to customers and others in the industry. You’re receiving this message either because we’ve either worked together in the past, may work together in the future, or you have somehow followed us. In my first Ted TALK I jumped into the fray with the “Mechanical Insulation Value Chain” blog assuming you knew me and understood the context. The responses were positive but I wanted to step back and explain where I was coming from. 

Dyplast is entrenched in Mechanical (pipe/equipment) Insulation and Panel Insulation, indeed mostly for temperatures less than ambient, yet we’re also innovative in Composite and Core Foams. Within those product/market contexts, you can expect to hear honest comments about issues and trends that affect us.  To the extent that you disagree with me, I welcome your input. In this highly technical and complex industry, I have heard that you feel many suppliers misrepresent or do-not-disclose the real story which is why I will be offering you my honest opinion to help inform you.

In my next Ted TALK I’ll get back to meat-and-potatoes issues.

Approaching the Holiday season, everyone at Dyplast extends to you our best wishes!

Respectfully

Ted Berglund

President

Dyplast Products

www.dyplast.com

Dyplast Products attending NIA's 2016 Fall Summit

Dyplast Products invites you to join us November 2-3 2016 at the NIA Fall Summit, at the Hilton Crystal City in Arlington Virginia. NIA’s Fall Summit is an annual 2-day members-only event that includes topical speakers, open committee meetings, tailored industry sessions, and networking opportunities to develop new business relationships. Designed to “Educate, Engage, and Elevate,” the goal of the Fall Summit meeting is to provide actionable content for attendees that companies can implement immediately to improve their businesses.

Joe Hughes (VP Sales & Marketing ) will be representing Dyplast to discuss the latest in polyurethanes technology used in the Dyplast Products family of polyisocyanurate rigid core foam insulation. The ISO-C1 products are an integral part of the design and successful operation of refrigeration systems and mechanical pipe insulation systems.

We look forward to participating and seeing you at this important event!

Dyplast publishes New "Ted TALK" series of Insulation industry conversations

Ted TALK:

Mechanical Insulation Value Chain:

I actively encourage my staff's dialogues with individuals and companies up, down, and across the value chain for mechanical insulation for low-temperature pipe and equipment. ISO-C1® polyisocyanurate is of course Dyplast's brand, yet this blog is generic. You may ask me "why exert so much effort to engage all these conversations?" My answer, which I hope is echoed below, is we each benefit and the industry benefits!

The value chain for the End-User (typically the Asset Owner) ends when the optimal insulation system is finally installed. Yet where does it begin, and where can it be broken? Frankly, the value chain has many participants and the more players there are, the higher the risk.

This first Ted Talk blog on the subject of Value Chain focuses on Installation Contractors, who clearly play key roles and each of whom can be considered the last cog in this value chain. They are often the final contractors squeezed by schedules, blamed for late commissioning, and when a system's thermal performance is "less than design" can be sued.

When Dyplast calls or visits an Installation Contractor we're almost always welcomed openly and with respect. Then when the conversation is all business we hear:

"We only "put on" what we're told"

"We're just basically a middleman"

"We do not actually buy the insulation"

"We don't write the specs"

"But what can we do?"

My general response is:

"Like it or not you each know you have potential liability!"

"Wouldn't it be better to know that what you are putting on is of the highest quality?"

I relate the story when I was asked by an "old time" player "why did Dyplast do all that testing?" My reply was "I really like to sleep at night."

If you've been so kind to read my blog thus far, I guess you know I can be a bit long on words. Indeed!  Yet in my own defense - - this is a complex subject. I will strive to use more sound-bites. Don't hold your breath!

Respectfully

Ted Berglund

President

Dyplast Products

www.dyplast.com

Dyplast Products exhibiting at 2016 CAMX – Composites and Advanced Materials Expo

Dyplast Products is proud to announce we will be exhibiting at the 2016 CAMX – Composites and Advanced Materials Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center – Anaheim, California from September 26 – 29 2016.

CAMX is the largest, most comprehensive composites and advanced materials event for products, solutions, networking, and advanced industry thinking. Joe Hughes (VP Sales & Marketing) and Tom McGettigan (Sr. Account Manager) will be talking about the latest in polyurethanes technology used in the Dyplast Products family of polyisocyanurate rigid core foam insulation in the EXPO Hall at our exhibit (J92).

We look forward to participating and seeing you at this important event!

Dyplast Products attending CSIA/ESICA 2016 Fall Conference

Dyplast Products will be attending CSIA/ESICA Fall Conference 2016 at Marriott Myrtle Beach, South Carolina from September 8 – 10 2016

ESICA represents both small and large mechanical, commercial, industrial and asbestos abatement contractors as well as various suppliers and distributors of products and services to the industry. CSIA is a non-profit trade association working with member firms to insure customers get the best mechanical insulation systems. Dyplast has been supporting CSIA and ESICA over many years, and is eager to again be part of this valuable Conference.

The Dyplast family of ISO-C1® polyiso insulation mechanical pipe insulation system is an integral part of the design and successful operation of mechanical pipe insulation and refrigeration systems. ISO-C1® has been successfully used for many years as mechanical pipe insulation and is a proven economic insulation technology.

Dyplast Senior Account manager, Tom McGettigan will be attending this year. He will be looking forward to meeting all those attending this important event!

Dyplast attending SEICA Spring Meeting

Dyplast Products will be attending the 2016 SEICA Spring Meeting from 26-28 June at The King & Prince Beach & Golf Resort in St. Simons Island, Georgia.

The Southeastern Insulation Contractors Association, SEICA, is an organization interested in promoting better relations between private owners and public bodies, their architects, engineers, mechanical contractors and insulation contractors. Dyplast has been a member of SEICA for many years and looks forward to being a part of this important meeting.

Robert Sanchinel will be the Dyplast representative and looks forward to discussing the ISO-C1® ASTM C591-15 and CINI 2014 results. We forward to seeing you there!

Dyplast publishes new article, "Logical Thinking" in LNG Industry Magazine

Dyplast Products’ new article in LNG Industry Magazine titled "Logical Thinking" is an examination of the complexities surrounding insulant performance at cryogenic temperatures.

Physical properties of a particular insulant are often measured only at ambient temperatures. This article aims to use logical thinking to examine the performance of insulants at LNG (cryogenic) temperatures.

Fortunately, standards such as ASTM and CINI increasingly require physical properties to be measured at cryogenic temperatures, so that in the future such logical extrapolations may be less necessary.

Click the below link to read the full article...

Dyplast LNG Article Logical Thinking

Dyplast Products releases Qwik Guides for Polyisocyanurate and Extruded Polystyrene

Dyplast uses Qwik Guides to condense into one page the information otherwise contained in DataSheets and longer technical materials. Dyplast’s latest release is a Qwik Guide for Polyisocyanurate and Extruded Polystyrene (XPS). 

Other Qwik Guides are available at www.dyplastproducts. com/resources/qwik-guides. The latest Qwik Guide offers information on comparisons between polyisocyanurate (PIR) and XPS. Click on the link below to view the Qwik Guide on XPS or to view the other Qwik Guides Dyplast has released to date.

Qwik Guide: Polyisocyanurate and Extruded Polystyrene

 

Dyplast Website Qwik Guides Page

 

If you have any questions please contact our professional Sales Team at sales@dyplast.com

Dyplast Releases Technical Bulletin 1115 on Thermal Aging of Insulation in Low-Temperature Applications

Technical Bulletin 1115

Thermal Aging of Insulation in Low-Temperature Applications

Dyplast's latest Technical Bulletin addresses "Thermal Aging", which is the gradual reduction of thermal insulation performance over time experienced by some insulants due to latest-generation (highly efficient) blowing agents diffusing out of the closed cells within the insulant. There are many insulants with initially "poor" thermal efficiencies that exhibit no thermal aging (i.e. they remain poor), and alternatively there are insulants with initially "superior" thermal efficiencies that even after aging continue to have superior thermal efficiencies. Thus over the lifetime of the insulation system this latter class of insulants offers energy savings that far exceed those of non-aging insulants!

1)  Insulants manufactured with Hydrocarbons, HFCs, or HFOs generally have better (i.e. lower) thermal conductivities than those blown with air or air-equivalents;

2)  Testing methods such as those used by ASTM strive to predict thermal aging and provide apples-to-apples comparisons between alternative insulants, yet it is incumbent on engineers/specifiers to execute due diligence;

3)  Thermal aging protocols typically age specimens at ambient conditions that vary rarely reflect the conditions present at the actual application;

4)  Thermal aging is mitigated (sometimes dramatically) by a number of factors – particularly low process temperatures and physical impediments to gas diffusion such as insulant layers, vapor barriers and jackets.

Technical Bulletin 1115 

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