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Insulating with STYROFOAM
The excellent water resistance, high insulation value and superior compressive strength of STYROFOAM* Brand Insulation
make it the preferred choice among builders, designers and owners for use in walls, floors and roofs in residential and commercial
buildings, civil engineering projects, cold stores, laminated panels, refrigerated trucks and containers.
INFOMATION ON STYROFOAM
Invented by Dow more than 50 years ago and identified worldwide by the distinctive Blue** color, STYROFOAM* products
are the most widely recognized brand in insulation today. In the early 1900s, The Dow Chemical Company invented a process
for extruding polystyrene to achieve a closed cell foam that resists moisture. Recognizing its superior insulating properties,
buoyancy and "unsinkability," it was originally adopted in 1942 by the Coast Guard for use in a six-man life raft. That was
the start of many other wartime applications by the Coast Guard and Navy.
Today, the Dow STYROFOAM brand includes a variety of building materials (including insulated sheathing and housewrap),
pipe insulation and floral and craft products. But there isn’t a coffee cup, cooler or packaging material in the
world made from STYROFOAM.
These common disposable items are typically white in color and are made of expanded polystyrene beads. They do not
provide the insulating value, compressive strength or moisture resistance properties of STYROFOAM products. In order
to protect the Dow trademarked name “STYROFOAM”, such other material should be referred to by the generic term
“foam.”
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