Rotary Die Cutting – Foam Fabrication Capability
What Fabrication Processes Are Available to Business Owners? Anytime a business needs to produce large numbers of identical and highly accurate shapes through cutting, forming and shaping sheet or rolled metal, or some other material, such as paper or plastic,...
An Overview of Die Cutting and Its Benefits
Die cutting is a dynamic process involving the creation of just about any shape from the material of your choice. We’ve been fabricating unique components made of foam for a range of industries since 1948, and we love what we do. Die cutting offers a range of benefits...
Team, Family and Customization: Three Core Values
2015 is nearly finished. Before we say goodbye to the current year, we want to pause to say “Thank You” to our clients, suppliers, and employees! From the beginning of our company history in 1948, relationships have been the common thread that knit the fabric of our...
Memory Foam: An Interesting Past-A Bright Future
As our space program becomes privatized, it may be a good time to consider all of the products that we have today because of space research. They include freeze dried meals, home blood pressure kits, non-stick cooking surfaces, hand-held vacuum cleaners, marathon...
Cutting Up and Down: The Digital Knife Machine
Imagine wanting to cut shapes from thin sheets of foam. You’d probably reach for an X-Acto knife. A very sharp thin blade means it cuts readily while being easy to maneuver. That’s why it’s often the first choice for cutting materials like card,...
Advanced Cushioning & Gasketing with PORON® Urethanes
PORON® Urethane foams from Rogers Corporation offer high performance solutions that help solve a variety of industry problems. Serving a range of markets, from mobile communications to automotive to more general industrial needs, PORON® Urethane foams exceed...
Using Rogers PORON Medical® Urethane Foams
Next time you leave wet footprints on a dry floor notice how little of your sole actually contacts the surface. It’s mainly just the heel and the area in front of your toes. In most people those parts are well-padded, but diseases like diabetes reduce that...
Twisting the Knife: Complex Shapes from Horizontal Contour Cutting
The continuous or circulating horizontal bandknife machine slices the largest blocks of foam into thin layers or sheets. Add the ability to rotate the bandknife and the machine becomes a horizontal contour cutter, able to produce complex foam shapes quickly and...
Polyester Polyurethane Foam or Polyether? Know the Difference
There’s much to consider when buying flexible polyurethane foam (PU). Density, tensile strength and Indentation Load Deflection are all important, but before looking at those there’s a more important property to consider: which type of foam will work best...
All About Foam Convolution
Foam Convoluting is a process through which the surface of a piece of foam is customized to fit the requirements of a particular application. If a piece of foam in a hospital bed, for example, a unique pattern can be designed to allow for both levels of full body...
All About Precision Foam Skiving
Precision Foam Skiving Skiving is a manufacturing technique you don’t see very often. Google it and you’ll learn about thinning leather or shaping metal gears. What you won’t see much of is how it’s used for precision foam sheeting....
All About Pressure Sensitive Adhesive
Foam is a fantastic cushioning material, used in industries from automotive to medical for providing comfort and protection. It’s not the easiest material to work with though. Cutting accurate, high-quality shapes takes specialized equipment and more than a...
The Art of Roll Slitting
Ever bought foam weatherstripping or double-sided tape in individual lengths? Somehow it just doesn’t work. You’d have to peel a backing strip off the pressure sensitive adhesive, there would be joins where you didn’t want them, and you’d have...
4 Reasons Why Our Membership with the GFA Benefits You As proud members of the GFA, or Gasket Fabricators Association, Merryweatherfoam is committed to delivering the best cutting-edge solutions to their customers. Through our engagement in GFA resources and events,...
Introducing Spunbound Materials
Spunbond materials are a subset of what’s termed non-woven fabrics. That is, they are webs of material without the interlacing of threads produced by weaving on a loom. That means the fibers are randomly oriented and not interlocked, so a bonding process or...
Our Rogers Preferred Convertor Status – What It Means to You
At Merryweather Foam, we are proud of the relationships we build with our customers and suppliers. We understand companies still do business with people, and we are proud of our knowledgeable and friendly team. Sometimes the results of these relationships are...
Custom Bagging and Assembly
Here at Merryweather Foam, we have worked for the past 68 years perfecting the art of fabricating custom foam products for clients in many different industries. But there’s a lot more to what we do other than manufacturing high quality foam components. We have a...
Foam Gutter Guards by Merryweather Foam
For much of the country, it is that time of year when leaves fall and air becomes brisk as the temperature cools. What could be better? How about if your darn gutters didn’t get full of leaves every year? There is a solution to the leaf problem. Put flexible...
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