Could this be the bean that rules them all? We like to believe so, why? Because our beans are twice the density of our key competitors and density is the number one factor in the stability of polystyrene beads.

Why does density affect quality?

Polystyrene starts out life as tiny glass like pellets. Each pellet is a fraction of an inch in size. Each of our bean bags starts out with 1000s of these pellets. The pellets are placed into an expansion chamber and steam is added, similar to popcorn, the steam causes the pellets to expand. After a few minutes the pellets are fully expanded and then the beads are passed over a drying bed to remove the moisture before packing. They may expand up to 80x the size they start at and this is where the density factor comes in. The smaller the expansion number, the higher the density of material.

The above process is fairly consistent across the polystyrene industry, so what makes SupremeX an awesome quality filling? Well here goes some inside knowledge, like the food industry is known to pump water into meat to increase its profits, most if not all of our competitors are pumping in extra air to increase their profits.

So how do they achieve this if the beans are all expanded in the same way? Well the above process may be repeated multiple times with the same filling, in other words dry the expanded filling and then return it back to the expander, add more steam and voila, the beads grow again. Each time this happens the beads grow bigger and also a lot weaker, the strength degrades not just down to less material but also due to the process of forcing additional expansion.

Having reviewed the market, we have found that the most popular expansion is a massive 3x. This means the manufacturer has expanded and dried the same filling on 3 occasions. Resulting in a low density, low quality polystyrene in the bean bag. Filling that is severely weakened and ready to compress or fall apart with barely any pressure.

This is great for the supplier because not just do they save on the cost of material but you are left buying more fillings from them almost immediately. For you as the customer this is no good at all.

Whilst we cannot promise our SupremeX beans will go on forever, they won’t, we have chosen the quality first approach to ensure you have the best quality available in the market.