Smithers-Oasis BIO FOAM as a packaging Material
“Happy Birthday - Ma” My kids like to make crafty stuff for all of us in the family. This was an art project where my kids took a ceramic tea pot, painted it and then turned it into a “watering…
Viva La Fish
This is the second and final installment of testing foam in aquariums as the filtration media. To recap what is happening with the experiment. The first round of testing was comparing an under the substrate filtration systems. The difference is…
Smithers-Oasis Carving Foam with Mr. Cohen at the Rhode Island School of Design
A while back we received a request for a quote on a sheet of foam for “carving.” We receive a fair amount of requests like these. Sometimes the users/ artist/ designers/ sculptors do not like certain aspects of the foam.…
What is Phenolic Foam – Physical Characteristics and Unique Attributes
100% Plastic Deformation – The foam does not bounce back. This attribute makes the foam great for the following applications; impressions, holding a shape and size, measuring an irregular shaped object. The foams base chemistry makes this an ideal where…
Addition of Poly Urethane foam to the Smithers Oasis product portfolio
As mentioned in the previous blog post, we have acquired some new researchers to our organization with a different chemical background. These researchers have come from the Poly Urethane industry. With new additions to the organization we are adding to…
Sky is the limit for our Engineers
You may have noticed a new section in our applications tab called “Sky is the Limit”. The reason is quite simple. We are pushing the bounds with our applications and solutions using newly gained foam technology to Smithers Oasis Engineered…
More Rock Climbing Sculptures from Dmitry in the Ukraine.
Looks like the theme to the next rock climbing wall will be a playful “Under the Sea” motif. We asked Dmitry what his secret is to making such great holds and he shared the following link with us on how…
Smithers Oasis Engineered Products’ QMS Implementation
We manufacture temperature-controlled tertiary packaging solutions for the biggest names in the cold chain industry, both food and pharmaceuticals. Our products are phenolic foam bricks, a key component of an “ice brick” refrigerant used in temperature controlled packaging solutions. These…
Train Locomotive Bumpers and Pedestrian Safety
Did you know it takes a freight train, travelling at full speed, over 1 kilometer to come to a complete stop? We at Smithers Oasis Engineered Products did not know this little factoid. A few engineers, physicists, and professors took…
Dmitry and 3-D Foam Vultures
Every so often we hear from our friend in the Ukraine. Over the holidays he was taking some of the high density (HD) foam and making some vultures. This guy is a jack of all trades with foam. From designing…