Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) transform the principle of a thermos bottle to a flat panel shape.

VIPs are built from open pore materials like pressed powder boards, glass fibres or open cell organic foams. The core materials are wrapped in a high gas barrier film using a special procedure and then evacuated and sealed.

The  thermal conductivity of VIPs produced by va-Q-tec (e.g. va-Q-vip) is about 5 times better than conventional insulation materials like mineral wool or foams:

ca. 0.008 W/mK compared to 0.040 W/mK. Thus a 20 mm vacuum panel is thermally equivalent to 10 cm thick conventional foam or fibre insulation.

Especailly va-Q-tec uses the unique "va-Q-check" quality check system within the production processes to reduce the VIP failure rate significantly and offers the highest quality of VIPs on delivery, and may be confident of maintaining that quality through their installation into other products or components.

 

va-Q-vip with silica core material