Applications

Where the material earns its place.

Five places where aluminum foam does what a flat metal sheet cannot.

  1. Facades & entrances
  2. Interior walls & partitions
  3. Ceilings & acoustic spaces
  4. Noise barriers
  5. Furniture & objects
Aluminum foam cladding panels on a building facade and entrance

Exterior · Building scale

Facades & entrances

Outside, a panel has to take weather and fire codes for decades. This one is metal all the way through: nothing to peel, nothing that can burn.

Fine cell aluminum foam Medium cell aluminum foam Coarse cell aluminum foam
FineMediumCoarse

Interior · Room scale

Interior walls & partitions

At arm's length the surface has to survive contact and go in without a metal shop. It cuts and fixes with ordinary tools and has no skin to scratch through.

Aluminum foam ceiling with a circular opening over a reflecting pool

Overhead

Ceilings & acoustic spaces

Overhead, weight counts twice. A metal surface light enough for ordinary hangers, with a pore field that breaks up flat echo.

Aluminum foam noise barrier panels

Infrastructure · Roadside

Noise barriers

Beside a road or rail line, one panel absorbs sound, cannot burn and does not rust, with no maintenance cycle. This is where the material has already been in service.

Table and cabinet infill
Table and cabinet infill
Kitchen back panel
Kitchen back panel
Fine cell sample in hand
Fine cell sample in hand

Furniture · Objects

Furniture & objects

At the scale of a table, a door or a lamp, the panel is the object. Stiff enough to be a surface, light enough for a hinge, sawn to the piece. Start with the three grades in the Designer Kit.