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American Insulock Making Environmentally-Friendly Concrete Forms - 8/1/2004 - Home Foundation Structure Framing

American Insulock Making Environmentally-Friendly Concrete Forms

07/21/2004
BURNABY, British Columbia -- American Insulock Inc. has begun producing Insulock Blocks (insulating concrete forms) using a new, environmentally-friendly resin developed by one of the world's leading producers of engineering plastics and polyurethanes. This new resin contains a "zero-ozone depleting" blowing agent. A blowing agent is a gas that is blended in with polyurethane resin. When the mixture is heated past its boiling point, the blowing agent causes small bubbles to be formed that make the polyurethane foam up. Polyurethane blowing agents used in the past have been identified by environmentalists and governments worldwide as being harmful to the Earth's ozone layer.

Insulock Blocks enable contractors to construct soundwalls and buildings that are highly effective at absorbing sound and have an R-30 or R-38 heat insulating value. The Company's Insulock Blocks are unique in that they are Polyurethane blocks are much stronger and have much higher heat and sound insulating values than polystyrene blocks, a material used by virtually every other manufacturer of insulating concrete forms.

The company's short-term goal is to produce an initial inventory of 5,000-10,000 blocks, which will be kept as inventory at the Company's Mesa, Arizona facility in order to ensure prompt delivery for any purchase orders. At present, the Company is negotiating with several firms to take purchase orders for Insulock Blocks.

For more information, please visit: http://www.insulock.com/


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