ZircoFlex^® - Our flexible ceramic heat shield material

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ZircoFlex^® is a revolutionary flexible ceramic heat shield material, offering superb thermal barrier performance at minimal weight and minimal thickness. The material is produced as a thin aluminium or gold backed foil that is:

• Flexible - ZircoFlex^® is easily bent and manipulated to suit different geometries, and can even be folded tightly through 180^o without damaging the thermal barrier.
• Lightweight - ZircoFlex^® I weighs only 0.46kg/m² (0.23kg/m²  for ZircoFlex^® Gold)
• Extremely thin - at 0.25mm overall (0.17mm for ZircoFlex^® Gold) needing only minimal space for installation
  
• Metal backed, so the material is robust and easy to handle.
  
• Easily cut and installed by hand or machine.
• Easily fixed in place using mechanical fasteners or high temperature adhesives (supplied separately by Zircotec).

ZircoFlex^® is available in a number of formats

• ZircoFlex I^® - this is ZircoFlex^® in its single thickness format (as outlined above);
  
• ZircoFlex II^® - an engineered double thickness format offering additional thermal barrier performance and a little more rigidity; still thin (~0.5mm) and lightweight (~1 kg/m²);
  
• ZircoFlex III^® - an engineered triple thickness format offering yet more thermal performance. This is a relatively rigid material that can be used to construct small self-supporting structures, though it is still easily cut and bent to shape and is still relatively thin (~0.85mm) and lightweight (~1.5 kg/m²). 
  
• ZircoFlex^® Gold - a high performance yet ultra lightweight and ultra thin heatshield material offering exceptional levels of protection against both radiant and conductive heat in a single easy to use product. Its real gold backing provides maximum levels of heat reflectivity. 
  

Follow the links to each specific ZircoFlex^® product for further technical details including performance data, available sizes and formats.

Typical applications