Dyplast Helps Create Portable Produce Pod with Huntsman Corp and Kroger

“Dyplast participated with Huntsman Corporation, Kroger, and others to create a “Portable Produce Pod” - - much like a big, mobile walk-in cooler for the Montgomery County Food Bank (MCFB) in Texas.

MCFB collects and distributes food to partner agency food pantries, and aims to have fresh produce make up at least 50% of its total distribution. However, most of their receiving food pantries do not have sufficient refrigerated space to hold and re-distribute perishable products. Hence the need for a refrigerated Pod.

The whole process of designing the Pod and finding manufacturers and suppliers took less than a year. Dyplast is proud to have been able to offer its ISO-CF polyisocyanurate (a modified polyurethane) insulation with the requisite thermal resistance, strength, and other advantageous properties.

To view more detail, click here (Montgomery County Food Bank Press Release). Dyplast views this a just one more example of how technologies can merge to create better products to benefit society-at-large!”

Dyplast Launches New Qwik Guide for Expanded Polystyrene Products

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Dyplast has just releases its latest Qwik Guide for its EPS products, which include Holey-Board roof insulation, composite foam core applications, packaging, GeoFoam, special cuts/shapes, and standard sheets for insulation. Dyplast’s unique credentials involving testing, QC, manufacturing capacity, expanded inventory, and new equipment capabilities create significant added value for our clients. We invite you to read our one-page Qwik Guide, and contact us for any additional information or support.

QWIK GUIDE - Expanded Polystyrene (EPS)

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Re-Launch: Dyplast CEO pens "Open Letter to the Mechanical Insulation Industry"

Dyplast sent out a media announcement yesterday and a minor “units error” in our attachment was identified by our friends. Dyplast herein restates its message (now with an updated attachment)  that Recently Dyplast was made aware of several marketing documents from Pittsburgh Corning comparing FOAMGLAS® to PIR/PUR systems. These include "Truth in Performance", "Polyisocyanurate Foam versus FOAMGLAS Insulation", and "FOAMGLAS Response to Dyplast Customer Bulletin dated 6/2010". These marketing pieces are misleading and contain numerous false statements. While Dyplast will not waste your time going through every misrepresentation, this letter will address key areas in order to let you decide if there is any reason to give credit to the Pittsburgh Corning claims. Additionally, Dyplast will outline key facts about Dyplast ISO-C1® products because real data and actual infield performance are a better basis to evaluate products.

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Open Letter to the Mechanical Insulation Industry.PDF

Dyplast Receives 2018 Florida Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence Award

ORLANDO - Dyplast Products received statewide recognition as a  2018 winner of the second annual Florida Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence Award. The award, recognizing high performing manufacturers in six categories, was announced and presented June 1 at the Governor's Sterling Awards Banquet in Orlando.

The Florida Sterling Council and FloridaMakes collaborated on these statewide awards. Companies were judged on leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce and operations.

Dyplast was selected from among 27 award finalists; 120 manufacturers were nominated. FloridaMakes will feature the finalists in webinars, plant tours and events that share best practices to benefit Florida's manufacturing sector and at the Make More Manufacturing Summit to be held on July 26 in Orlando.

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 releases new Polyiso vs. XPS Technical Bulletin

Dyplast released its latest Technical Bulletin 0418 which is an update to the 0214 Bulletin on Polyiso versus XPS in low temperature pipe insulation applications. Whereas the previous version was focused primarily on examining the cost of insulation systems versus energy savings and long-term performance of polyisocyanurate (polyiso or PIR) and extruded polystyrene (XPS) insulants in refrigeration and chilled water applications, this more recent Bulletin revision is more-so focused on the misinformation and/or lack of full disclosure so prevalent in the marketplace. Dyplast aggressively advocates for:

• honest presentation of physical properties and pertinent information, yet also
• full-disclosure, complemented with
• third-party verification and audit of physical properties and the quality process.

Polyiso versus XPS

Dyplast releases new Foam Core website v.1

Dyplast Products, LLC  www.dyplast.com  has launched a new polyisocyanurate ISO-CF® Foam Core and sheet web-site  www.dyplastcomposites.com. The web-site has a clean design with stream lined navigation and readability. It can be viewed on desktops, laptops, as well as being mobile friendly.

The web-site includes technical information on Dyplast polyisocyanurate core and sheet foams: ISO-CF®, ISO-HT CF®, and the Dyplast® EPS family of products.  The Foam Cores includes all our technical data, Technical Bulletins, Qwik Guides, and application information. 

Dyplast has the fabrication capabilities including CAD to produce sheets or other custom shaped core pieces that can be used in process temperatures up to 350 °F (177 °C). The core foams have an application range from -297°F to 350 °F (-187.8 °C to 176.7 °C). 

The web-site features a link to our newly designed Dyplast Products, LLC website with specific information about our low temperature polyisocyanurate insulation for mechanical pipe insulation and other applications.  The Dyplast Products web-site also includes information on our Dyplast EPS family of products.

Dyplast invite you the fabricator, engineer, composite designer, and OEM end user to study the new Dyplast web-site to increase your knowledge of Dyplast’s foam cores.  

The new Foam Cores web-site will be formally launched at the CAMX 2017 in Orlando Florida on Tuesday December 12, 2017. Visit Dyplast personnel at Booth A44 for more information and technical discussion of your core needs. 


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Dyplast Products Redesigned Web-Site v.1

Dyplast Products, LLC  announces today that we have re-designed the Dyplast web-site, www.dyplast.com. The redesigned web-site has a cleaner design with stream lined navigation and readability. It can be viewed on desktops, laptops, as well as being mobile friendly.

The web-site still includes all the previous technical information about our family of products including our polyisocyanurate foams: ISO-C1®, ISO-HT®, and Dyplast® EPS.  The new information includes ISO-C1® 2.5# cryogenic test results meeting the international standard CINI-2013. Dyplast continually update the web-site

In addition to all our technical data, Technical Bulletins, Qwik Guides, and application information, Dyplast has added new sections with our published articles and blogs along with a revised Career page. The web-site features a link to our new Foam Cores web-site with specific information on our ISO-CF®.

Dyplast continues to provide "leading technology for low temperature insulation application and core foams".

Dyplast invites you the fabricator, installer, contractor, engineer, estimator, or end user to study the new Dyplast web-site whether you are a frequent user or a first-time user looking to increase your knowledge of insulation.   

Please visit Dyplast's web-site www.dyplast.com

Dyplast Reopens after Hurricane Irma

Dyplast and our employees very much appreciate the thoughts and prayers so many of you offered to us and indeed all in the path of Hurricane IRMA. All of our personnel are safe although a number still do not have electricity and water.

 

The Miami plant sustained minimal damage, and we appreciated the efforts that our staff made to be at the plant this morning. They came in spite of personal hardships.

 

Dyplast anticipates being operational on or before Friday September 15, 2017. We still have spotty telephone service at the site.

 

We further anticipate that we will be back to normal operations next week fulfilling all orders. If you had already placed orders before Dyplast suspended operations these shipments will have priority.

 

Thank you for your patience. Please contact your Account Manager if you cannot get through to Customer Service, and you can always contact me directly via my cell.

Joe Hughes

VP Sales and Marketing

Mobile: 305-904-4059

 

www.dyplast.com

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 Products receives Florida Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence Award

On June 2, Dyplast Products, LLC received the “First Runner Up” award at Governor's Sterling Awards Banquet in Orlando. The Florida Governor’s Sterling Award is for Performance Excellence. The awards are presented annually by the Governor to both private and public companies that are high performing, role-model organizations demonstrating superior management approaches and role model results.

The finalist and winners were selected from among 28 award finalists representing 120 Florida manufacturers nominated in 6 categories. Dyplast received statewide recognition in the “up to 100 employees” category.

Dyplast personnel attending were:  Ted Berglund President and CEO, Vincente Fuster, Sr. VP Operations and Finance, and Yamilet Ramirez, Asst VP and HR Manager. Ted stated he was pleased with the award and congratulated the Dyplast team for their commitment to excellence.

Clearing the Air…on Polyurethane’s Smoke Toxicity

In Dyplast Products, LLC continuing effort to provide our customers with accurate information about our ISO-C1® family of products, we are sending out 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. 

The document in a Q&A format makes, two important points about polyurethane combustion products: that combustion decomposition toxicity products are not unique as compared to other common synthetic or natural materials, and that polyurethanes do not present a greater health risk than fires involving synthetic or natural materials.

Dyplast believe that this informative document should dispel some commonly misunderstood beliefs concerning Polyurethane combustion products.

Click below to read full Article 

 CPI - Question and Answer - Smoke Toxicity 

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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 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 

Please visit Dyplast's web-site www.dyplast.com for more information.

Dyplast Selected as a Top Workplace

We were delighted to receive notification that the Sun Sentinel named Dyplast Products as a South Florida Top Workplace. Dyplast scored very high on the survey for the most-desired qualities and for creating a positive work environment. The South Florida companies chosen for recognition were selected through employee surveys conducted by Workplace Dynamics. The surveys measured such qualities as company leadership, communication, career growth, working environment, managerial skills, pay and benefits.

We are proud of our company's achievements. 

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 attending 2016 Polyurethanes Technical Conference

Dyplast Products is proud to announce we will be attending the 2016 Polyurethanes Technical Conference at the Hilton Baltimore - Baltimore, Maryland from September 26 – 28 2016.

Fostering both technical and professional development, the Polyurethanes Technical Conference is the premier destination to learn about the latest in polyurethanes technology used in the Dyplast Products family of ISO-C1® polyiso 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 Products attending the Thermal Insulation Association of Canada’s 2016

Dyplast Products will be attending the Thermal Insulation Association of Canada’s (TIAC) 2016 Annual Conference at Delta Bessborough Hotel Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from September 17 – 20, 2016.

The 2016 Conference program will feature timely presentations by industry experts and leaders, business meetings where you can engage in sector-specific discussions and networking opportunities to connect with friends new and old.

The Thermal Insulation Association of Canada is the national industry association for contractors, distributors and manufacturers of commercial, industrial and institutional thermal insulation, asbestos abatement and firestop. Dyplast Products has been an active supporter of TIAC for many years and is eager to be a part of this Annual Conference.

Claude Hartdegen will be representing Dyplast to discuss the ISO-C1® ASTM C591 and CINI 2014 results and other topics related to polyisocyanurate insulation. We look forward to seeing you there!

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!