Cushion Materials that Surpass Paper Help to Streamline Production

Top Board is a single-cushion material that uses unique Yamauchi know-how to form composites of heat-resistant materials. Dozens of paper cushions must be set up at a time, making it necessary to count the number of cushions before each set up. With single-cushion materials, you only need to set up a single sheet. This means that vacuum conveying and other automated conveying processes can be used to greatly improve work efficiency. Also, unlike disposable paper cushion materials, Yamauchi’s Top Board can be continuously reused hundreds of times. And, in addition to lowering costs, environmental friendliness is achieved due to the reduction in waste.

Following its creation of single-cushion materials to replace paper, Yamauchi has now developed the YOM (Yamauchi Original Mat) for customers who require even more enhanced performance. Featuring improved uniformity, with little change in thickness during use and very little lowering of its cushioning properties, YOM cushioning material exceeds conventional single-cushion materials in virtually every aspect. It is highly acclaimed by customers who need high-grade cushion materials.

YOM’s excellent cushioning properties and cushioning restoration give it highly precise panel thickness, providing superior performance as a countermeasure for pressure irregularities, concave-convex tracking, and voids. Also, unlike paper cushioning, single-cushion materials do not cause contamination due to paper powder or generate harmful gases, and they can be used in temperatures up to 230°C. As such, single-cushion materials solve a variety of problems in pressing and laminating processes.

The material combination for Yamauchi Top Board and YOM single-cushion materials can be changed to match your usage conditions. In this way, single-cushion materials have been used by various industries to solve compression and temperature irregularities in pressing and laminating processes for products such as printed circuit boards (CCL, MLB, FPC), cards, melamine boards, plywood, LCD, and solar cells. If your company has any problems with the cushioning materials that your are currently using, we hope you will consider using Top Board or YOM.