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Zotefoams

February 2018

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For some, a company making foam might conjure up a somewhat prosaic business making the stuff that plumps up your sofa. This had certainly included me before I went down to meet Zotefoams (ZTF; 443p). I have to say that until a few days ago I hadn’t realised that the company’s speciality was foaming polymers.As finance director Gary McGrath explained whilst walking me around the site in Croydon, the company’s technology has three stages. Part one is to take polypropylene, blend it with additives and colour and then send it away to get radiated so that the polymer forms cross-links. When it returns, the plastic blocks are then placed into a steel chamber for stage two where it is impregnated with nitrogen using a m ...

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