What is a VIP?

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 only one tenth of the conductivity of conventional insulation materials like mineral wool or foams: ca. 0.004 W/mK compared to 0.040 W/mK. Thus a 20 mm vacuum panel is thermally equivalent to 20 cm thick conventional foam or fibre insulation.

• Up to 10 times higher insulation performance compared to conventional insulations
• Space saving but highly insulating constructions possible
• High quality and long product life time
• Patented production technology va-Q-seam
• Patented quality control via va-Q-check

VIPs are suitable for applications where only little space is available, but very high thermal insulation is needed. va-Q-vip allows for highly insulating and thin constructions, especially in the following areas:

• Packaging: Shipping containers for frozen, cooled and warm goods, etc.
• Buildings: Facade, internal and external insulation, etc.
• Vehicles: Insulated trucks, electrical cars, etc.
• Appliance and technical applications

Covered by the high barrier film the vacuum panels are automatically protected against incoming humidity. Thus a major problem of conventional insulations (e.g. fibres or aerogels) is solved, where a dramatically decreasing thermal performance results, if the insulation becomes wet.