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)

Visit our Website and see additional Qwik Guides, Articles, & Case Studies

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Contact Us Today!

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ISO-C1 Polyiso                            ISO-HT Polyiso

                    Dyplast EPSD            Composite Foam CoresF

Contact one of our Staff Today!

(305) 921-0100

(800) 433-5551

info@dyplast.com

Dyplast Exhibiting at CAMX 2018

Join Us at Booth BB51

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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.

Join Us at Booth BB51

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CAMX on YouTube

Meet our Experts and see what we have to Offer!

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Dyplast Sales Staff are Insulation Industry Subject Matter Experts. Drop by our Booth and put them to work for you!

  

Contact Us Today!

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ISO-C1 Polyiso                            ISO-HT Polyiso

                    Dyplast EPSD            Composite Foam CoresF

Contact one of our Staff Today!

(305) 921-0100

(800) 433-5551

info@dyplast.com

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.

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 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 Announces Additional ISO-C1® and ISO-CF® Fabrication Capabilities

Dyplast Products manufactures high-quality rigid polyisocyanurate insulation bunstock for mechanical insulation, sheet, and foam cores offering many superior properties.

Dyplast manufactures ISO-C1®, and ISO-CF® bunstock on a continuous production process yielding 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, and 6.0 lb/ft3 densities. Today Dyplast announces that we have installed a SmartShop® CNC router to execute preformed routed cuts on our polyisocyanurate sheet and foam core family of products. Dyplast has extensive sheet fabrication capacity, and now has the capability to produce preformed routed cuts for prototypes and production pieces to respond to increasingly complex customer requirements. Our experienced staff can fabricate the large bunstock into sheets and shapes utilizing computer-aided-design (CAD). 

Dyplast's production capacities allow us to meet market demands for large or small volume projects.

Dyplast invites you to discuss your projects and needs. Please contact Dyplast's Sr. Account Managers at (800) 433-5551 or e-mail us at info@dyplast.com or via our web-sites.

"Leading Edge Technology for Insulation & Foam Cores"

Please visit Dyplast's web-sites 

www.dyplast.com and www.dyplastcomposites.com

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Dyplast Announces Additional EPS Fabrication Capabilities

Dyplast Products manufactures high-quality rigid expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam blocks using a molding process at densities of 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, and 2.0 lb/ft3. Today we announce that we have completed installing additional fabrication capacity to better serve increased demand and to offer more options for complex customer requirements. Our experienced staff can fabricate the EPS blocks into sheets and shapes utilizing computer-aided-design (CAD).

Dyplast EPS insulation is light-weight and resilient, offering many unique properties. Dyplast's production capacities allow us to meet market demands for large or small volume projects.

Dyplast EPS invites you to discuss your projects and needs. Please contact Robert Sanchinel Dyplast's Sr. Account Manager at (800) 433-5551 or e-mail rsanchinel@dyplast.com

Please visit Dyplast's web-sites 

www.dyplast.com and www.dyplastcomposites.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 CSIA's Platinum Safety Award

Dyplast Products was presented with Central States Insulation Association's "Best Practices in Safety" Platinum award on the 3rd of May 2017 at the Belterra Casino in Florence, IN. Tom McGettigan was honored to accept this on behalf of the Dyplast Products' team.

 

The inaugural program award was presented to CSIA members who have demonstrated a commitment to continuously improve jobsite safety. 

 

Several years ago, Dyplast developed and implemented the "Be Safe, Stay Safe" program. Because of the company's continuing efforts, Dyplast has been recognized with numerous consecutive years awards by industry associations such as NIA and MICA. Dyplast is proud to be recognized by CSIA in their program's inaugural year. Safety remains an integral part of Dyplast's culture.

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 

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

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 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 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