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Foaming and quality grades of WPC vinyl core layer

2020-07-10

For improving mechanical property, reducing density and costs of raw material, micro-cellular foaming technology becomes the first choice of improvement measures.


After foaming, the content of plastic resin can be cut in half, the cellular structure of WPC rigid core is successful in preventing crack growth, thus improving impact resistance and ductility dramatically. Besides, the density of composite by foaming was obviously reduced. With the 1.5% foaming agents added, the density was reduced by 17% and the impact strength was increased by 20%. And a more precise dimension can be achieved by foaming.


However, foaming performance of WPC vinyl floor is impacted by many factors, such as the choice of plant fibre, grain diameter and content of plant fibre, foaming temperature etc.. We’ve met several foam structures from different suppliers, which could be different in content of plant fibre, plastic resin and foaming agent:



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Pic.1 Different Foaming Results



These pieces of WPC vinyl flooring are a bit different in density, ductility, tensile strength, impact strength, shrinkage and water absorption. Surely that the flooring performance would not be the same either.

In WPC vinyl flooring, half the cost comes from plastic resin, that is, increasing plant fibre will result in reducing cost. But, it is not unlimited. In China, the plant fibre reaches to about 50-60%, and 80% is the highest value that accomplished as we known.

We know that, the added of chemical foaming agent results in an increase of voidage. However, this increase of voidage will cease when the amount of foaming agent reaches a specified level.


In addition to the above situation, we found a regrettable thing in our inspection that, a few WPC vinyl flooring suppliers use quite a little regrinding resin to replace virgin material, and the share of regrinding material is getting more and more. Here are some comparison pictures, which are showing the differences clearly.



Virgin vinyl material Regrinding PVC material


Pic. 2  Virgin Material (Left) and Regrinding Material (Right)






Pic. 3  Comparison Between WPC Vinyl Flooring Cores with

Regrinding Material and Virgin Material



In Picture 3. from left to right, there are WPC vinyl flooring cores that made from 100% virgin material, 50% virgin material and 50% regrinding material, and 20% virgin material and 80% regrinding material. We compared those and found that:

1. No matter how much the regrinding material is, it is definitely darker than virgin one cause there are many colors of reclaimed PVC inside.

2. Regrinding material is weak in buckling strength and tenacity. Conversely, Virgin material is quite flexible and much more excellent in compression resistance.

3. Unlike regrinding material, the fractured side of virgin core is clean without broken bits.

4. The foam structures of virgin material core and regrinding material core are nearly no difference.


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