Luxembourg, 17 September 2024 – Armacell, a global leader in flexible foam for the equipment insulation market and a leading provider of engineered foams, today announced the launch of a new cutting-edge aerogel technology.
Following the incident that impacted Armacell’s Cheonan (South Korea) plant on 7 September 2024, and in order to support its customers, Armacell has accelerated the launch of this new product platform, which will significantly expand the company’s aerogel-based ArmaGel portfolio.
The proprietary aerogel blanket technology and ArmaGel XG production line will complement Armacell’s revolutionary aerogel-based product range. The product will be fully compliant to ASTM C1728 and enhance the existing ArmaGel offering, with benefits such as best-in-class thermal performance.
Built on Armacell’s breakthrough innovative technology developed in house, the first product to be known as ArmaGel XGH, will be available from October 2024. Armacell will disclose detailed product features at the launch date.
ArmaGel XGH will initially be manufactured in China as significant capacity is available. Parallel to that, Armacell is investing in additional ArmaGel XG capacity in Pune (India), next to one of its largest and most advanced plants worldwide. By mid-2025, this brand new manufacturing facility will reinforce the company’s aerogel capacity by adding 1 million square metres per annum to meet the rapidly increasing demand for aerogel-based insulation solutions.
"This strategic investment illustrates Armacell's strong commitment to innovate and provide bestin- class energy efficiency solutions to the Industrial and Energy segments", says Laurent Musy, Armacell’s President and CEO.
Looking ahead, Armacell also expects this new technology to offer optimised aerogel solutions to mitigate thermal runaway in battery cells for applications such as electric vehicles.