Overview
Performix Coatings is a recognized leader in flexible, durable foam coatings engineered for custom foam shapes, modern foam furniture design, and commercial manufacturing. Traditional furniture manufacturing methods rely heavily on fabric or leather upholstery over rigid wood or metal frames, which can severely restrict design flexibility.
Coating a custom shape directly from a cut foam block empowers designers to bypass traditional framing constraints. The advantages of eliminating conventional frames are significant, allowing designers to stretch their imaginations like never before. Whether it’s coated foam shapes for high-traffic science museum displays, foam archways for children’s indoor playgrounds, life-size puzzle pieces, or ultra-contemporary chairs, ottomans, cubes, and loungers, Performix delivers the ideal coating for your project.
Challenge
Customers required a protective coating that supported design flexibility while delivering highly specific end-use properties under demanding daily use, including UV, chemical, abrasion, impact, puncture, moisture, tear, fire retardancy, and anti-microbial protection.
Solution
By working closely with raw material suppliers, our product development team—bringing 120 years of combined experience—developed targeted solutions for these complex design and performance challenges.
Performix Coatings offers a full range of specialty coatings used by major manufacturers around the globe, leading the industry with the widest selection of protective coatings for fabricated foams used in modern furniture, custom displays, and commercial products of all types.
Products Referenced
Performix products referenced in this case study may include the following Coatings for Foam products: