Clamshell containers, cups and other food ware items made from expanded polystyrene foam are popularly—though incorrectly—called Styrofoam, which is a registered brand name for styrene foam ...

This is as true for insulation board as it is for the ubiquitous expanded polystyrene kind of foam used for everything from coffee cups to packaging material. Those stick-type hot wire cutters ...

With some polystyrene products facing bans and deselection, a new PS industry alliance aims to boost recycling of their ...

“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. But hot-wire cutters ...

When it is used in home construction—maybe as a marketing tactic—it’s not typically referred to as foam in the specification process, but rather as expanded polystyrene or EPS, which is a ...

Fortuna Cools makes coolers out of that waste instead of the commonly used expanded polystyrene foam, often incorrectly called styrofoam. We make more than 14 million tons of this hard-to-recycle ...

In 2023, the Oregon legislature passed Senate Bill 543, which bans many uses of polystyrene foam (commonly known by its brand name, Styrofoam) in ...