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Overview Polyurethane Foam 101 Foam Brings Topography Alive LAST-A-FOAM FR-4300 builds Big Boot! Terracotta Sculptures LAST-A-FOAM Tooling Applications Full-Scale Model Aircraft Bronze Sculpture Egg-A-Saurs Blast-Tamer Demo GP Foam Protects Shuttle SRB Non-Lethal Foam Flash-Bang Voll Action Figure

Over the last four decades, General Plastics has earned an outstanding reputation for developing unique foam-based technical solutions to difficult problems. Here are a handful of these solutions as they appear in the real world.

		Polyurethane Foam 101 The polyurethane foam world is very large and diverse—chances are good you are sitting on some kind of flexible polyurethane foam right now—but the useful products for structural and composite-core applications are rigid polyurethane foams.

		Foam Brings Topography Alive Solid Terrain Models of Fillmore, CA uses LAST-A-FOAM FR-7100 Model and Prototype Foam to craft its highly-accurate topographical models and maps, widely considered to be the best available.

		LAST-A-FOAM FR-4300 builds Big Boot! Red Wing Shoes participated in the February, 2005 contest for the World's Record for the Largest Leather Boot at the World Shoe Association Show in Las Vegas, NV.

		Terracotta Sculptures General Plastics LAST-A-FOAM® FR-6706 was used to create mold patterns for terracotta sculptures used to decorate a Los Angeles DOT facility.

		LAST-A-FOAM Tooling Applications Architect Louis Kahn once said, “Even a brick wants to be something”-- that goes for tooling boards, too.

		Full-Scale Model Aircraft These two photos show full-scale models of aircraft that have been constructed either partially or completely out of LAST-A-FOAM®‚ materials.

		Bronze Sculpture Sculptor Joy Taylor of Newport Beach, CA used LAST-A-FOAM® FR-6712 to make a complex pattern for a bronze sculpture, shown in these pictures.

		Egg-A-Saurs This project was a design study for a toy manufacturer that led to the creation of the Fisher-Price "Egg-A-Saurs" toy.

		Blast-Tamer Demo This BLAST-TAMER demonstration was conducted at the Marine Corps base at Quantico, VA, in May of 1999 as part of the Force Protection Equipment Demonstration organized and presented by the Department of Defense.

		GP Foam Protects Shuttle SRB General Plastics Manufacturing Company participates in Space Shuttle operations in 2004 with components for the Reusable Solid Rocket Motor system.

		Non-Lethal Foam Flash-Bang Sturdy Last-A-Foam components make possible a non-lethal flash-bang device used to stun and distract hostage-takers during law-enforcement rescue activities.

		Voll Action Figure Product Designer Roman Kashalapov's "Voll Action Figure" is crafted using General Plastics Manufacturing Co.

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