Vita Foam

Everywhere you look today squishy, flexible polyurethane foam makes our lives more comfortable. From packaging, carpet cushioning, and most memory foam and latex mattresses PU foam is all over our world. As an $87 Billion-dollar global industry it makes sense that Canadian foam manufacturers are looking for efficient, cost-effective manufacturing processes that often start with steam.

VPC Group Inc (Vitafoam Products Canada) has risen from its beginnings in Toronto in 1962 to become Canada’s leading manufacturer of urethane foam products with 10 facilities across Canada. Vitafoam manufactures all types of flexible and molded polyurethane foam for various purposes. Offering a full range of foam products and processes from furniture uses to lamination, die cutting, convoluting, contour cutting, molded products and a full range of bonded carpet cushion. 

Vitafoam uses steam from 2 boilers for heating their facility as well as heating chemicals inside railcars and processes called re-bonding where they recycle scraps and foam by-products. VPC Group knows the importance of using of technology and advanced methods to deliver exceptional products to their customers so in 2017 when considering replacing an existing boiler, Miura was a clear option. 

At the time, VPC was working with 1 traditional boiler and 1 Miura LX model. “The non-Miura boiler was old with high maintenance cost and more gas consumption giving hard time to our production due intermittent downtime.” Says Hassan Gharahbagheri of VPC Group. “We replaced it with high efficiency Miura LX-200 boiler. Now we have two to combat redundancies.”