Custom Foam Cutting, Packaging & Inserts

Order custom foam inserts tailored to your unique specifications at Trifibre. We use market-leading foam cutting techniques to design and manufacture bespoke case foam inserts in all shapes and sizes. Commission high-quality standalone inserts or foam trays, as well as inserts designed to meticulously fit your flight cases, hard cases, plastic cases, and soft cases.

Custom Foam Cutting

We provide the leading CNC custom foam cutting service in the UK, using a variety of foam types, depending on the size and weight of the items the insert will contain. We’ll advise you on the best materials to meet your precise needs and budget.

Trifibre supplies a wide range of technical foam materials used across multiple manufacturing industries.

We also combine our advanced custom foam cutting techniques and self-adhesive coatings to provide additional services including:

  • Tapes
  • Acoustic panels
  • Laminated foam
  • Filtration products
  • Sheets
  • Profiles
  • Embossed parts
  • Die cut parts
  • Angle cut parts
  • CNC Routing
  • Gaskets
  • Seals

Custom Foam Inserts

We design and manufacture custom foam inserts for our own bespoke flight cases, and plastic cases and containers. Our inserts can also be made to fit any off-the-shelf injection-moulded plastic trays or metal stillages.

With over 40 years’ experience and the most precise foam cutting technology on the market, we have vast experience in crafting custom foam inserts for a range of applications, using the highest quality materials.

Our foam inserts are ideal for supporting and protecting expensive or fragile equipment, including:

We can also create custom designs that match your branding.



Our Foam Cutting Process

1. Get a quote

Contact our team to get a tailored quote for your custom foam insert needs.


2. Design

We combine CAD files, image-to-vector tracing, technical drawings and manual measurement to design your bespoke case insert to your exact specification.


3. Manufacture

Using industry-leading foam cutting techniques including CNC Routing, our experts create your custom insert at our 70,000 sq ft factory in Leicester, UK.


4. Shipping

Most orders are dispatched within 7 to 10 days of your order being received, so you can start protecting your products straight away.


We Use CNC Routing

Trifibre is proud to be one of the market leaders in CNC foam cutting, with specialist services developed for multiple industries. Thanks to CNC Routing, we’re able to create bespoke case foam inserts with extreme accuracy to ensure a high-quality production. We have five CNC Routers and other state-of-the-art facilities that enable us to complete multiple different projects on time, including our foam engineering services and bespoke routine projects for plywood and plastic.

We use leading CAD/CAM software for programming our CNC machines, and can also accept customer-supplied CAD in all major formats, including Auto CAD® DWG, DXF, Solidworks, STP and IGES.


Materials

Our custom foam inserts can be made from the following materials:

foam

Plastazote Foam

  • Available in a range of densities and colours
  • Designed for top performance and reduced weight
  • No chemical agents
  • Uniform cell structure and density
  • Zotefoams provides the world’s lightest crosslinked foams

Ecozote Foam

  • Closed-cell, cross-linked low-density, polyethylene (LDPE) foam
  • Ecozote offers similar performance to Plastazote foam, but with 30% recycled material
  • Ideal for high-performance foam inserts for cases and other specialised protective packaging

Foam Inserts

Polyurethane Open Cell Foam

  • Open-cell foam with a porous structure
  • Less expensive than other options
  • Suitable integrity for packaging fragile items
  • Well-suited to large runs of pressed foam inserts created using a press tool, ensuring consistency and efficiency

Polyethylene Foam

  • Also known as PE foam
  • Highly versatile
  • Comes in sheets/rolls of different densities and colours
  • Accessible and cost-effective – made in the UK and worldwide
  • Used for everything from packaging to insulation

Antistatic Foam

  • Cost-effective option for packaging, transporting and storing ESD-sensitive items
  • Protects against shocks during handling or transit
  • Safeguards products from static discharge, providing a route for the charge to dissipate from the packaging, acting as a shield or barrier

Foam Inserts

Stratocell Foam

  • A laminated polyethylene foam offering superior protection
  • Recyclable due to non-crosslinked structure
  • A cost-effective option for custom foam inserts

Past Projects

Take a look at some of the custom foam inserts we’ve created for happy clients in the past.

Our Foam Machinery

Take a look at some of our in house foam related machinery

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Enquire About Our Custom Foam Inserts

Make your packaging extraordinary with custom foam inserts by Trifibre. We look forward to collaborating with you to create the perfect solution for your unique needs. 

Contact us on 0116 232 3166, email [email protected] or fill in the form to get your custom foam insert quote.

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We’re proud of all the work we do, be it large corporate supply, or a simple box for personal storage. Our decades of experience means we’re the best at what we do.

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