i am wondering where the manufacturers of these ICFs are i would like to stay near to maine if possible but for future reference for anyone who passes this way ..
listing the ones i found.. so far will add/edit please add them in and if the address is the corp headquarters and thier manufaturing facilitys are else where please correct :)

amvic buiding sys
toronto ON Can
also found a pacific in nevada

horizon insulated system
--website dead--

IntegraSpec
Phil-Insul Corporation
kingston ON CAN

Lite Form Technologies
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE usa

Quad-Lock Building Systems
surry BC can
 
reward wall sys
omaha NE usa

greenblocks kudos to the easy to find info to plants and warehouse and corprate HQ locale
jerome ID usa
post falls ID usa
mexacali mexico ("coming soon")
colorado city CO usa
becker MN usa
nixa MO usa
orlando FL usa
boston MA usa

ECO block
Cobourg, ON

build block
Oklahoma City, OK usa

A-ONE Forms, manufactured and distributed by Tasler, Inc.,
 Webster City, Iowa usa


ps i am also lookin at waffle wall(it seems engineered not jut a wall with foam boards around it) and icf floors and SIP roof. preliminary ofcourse

Posted By judas on 13 Nov 2010 08:47 PM
i am wondering where the manufacturers of these ICFs are i would like to stay near to maine if possible but for future reference for anyone who passes this way ..

Many, if not most, ICF mfrs use contract molders all over the country. Finding out who the actual molder is, and where they are located, for a particular brand  may be problematic. Buildblock shows a plant in West Brookfield, MA, but doesn't say who it is.

My Amvic blocks came from Diversified Plastics in Nixa, MO.

ps i was researching leed is why i ask .. besides there is transport costs. .. but thanks all

I think all but Nudura are contract moulded. But I don't think there is anything wrong with that, if anything it promotes competition. I have visited three moulders and they made at least a dozen brands between them. I was impressed by each of them.

integraspec makes there own block

Polycrete uses no contract molders. All Polycrete Big Block ICFs are made on proprietary Polycrete machines. They have to be, as no one else can mold EPS around the .16" steel wire mesh. Manufacturing plant is in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, halfway between Montreal and Quebec City on the St. Lawrence.

Okay, to make this slightly easier I would recommend checking out the following link or pdf file. It seems to cover most of the locations of ICF manufacturing facilities.

http://www.icfmag.com/documents/ICF_COMP_CHART/ICF_Comp_Chart.pdf

renangle

Judas, I would not worry about where your ICFs are made. The location of your contractor and distributor are more important.

He's trying to calculate the transport distance for LEED points, but I have heard that it's not possible for EPS, as you cannot trace the raw materials (oil) to a specific source. With Polycrete, we can at least trace the steel component to the mill where it was recycled.

Bruce, If he's looking for LEED points he's wasting his time but it's at a much higher level than bead/oil raw materials. He needs to read LEED 5.1 and 5.2 carefully... these two points are available based on weight and are awarded (with rare exception of use of cost) based on the typical slab weight % of buiding (locally sourced concrete) and ICF wall installed weight % of building (locally sourced concrete). There's been a great focus on the 500 miles in the industry and inside 500 miles is great in the spirit of LEED but it's not going to get you anyadditional LEED points. Regards.

If I understand correctly, the EPS can contribute to LEED 5.1 but not to 5.2. Can someone confirm?

Bruce,  I will let someone else comment.  However, what i was saying was that EPS can contribute to either or both 5.1 or 5.2.   The issue is since the points are awarded based on weight of building components utilized in the building (e.g: steel, tile, sheetrock, wood, CMU, concrete, ICF, etc., etc. i recall that furniture may be excluded) the ICF is such as small percentage of the weight and the concrete of the slab and concrete of the ICF are so high that it really doesn't make any difference.   Also, the target weights for percentage of the building for 5.1 and 5.2 are so low (like 20% and then an additional 10% if I recal correctly for each point respectively) that you might almost get there with the slab alone on a typcial building.   Regards.

IntegraSpec ICF's US and CDN manufacturing facilities are in the following locations:

Kansas City, KS

Reno, NV

Uxbridge, MA

Decatur, AL

Plymouth, WI

Quebec City, QC

Montreal, QC

cool i will read the regs closely when it seems interesting again. i am trying to determine if its actually any real benefit to LEED. i of course dont mean building local(putting local manufacturers to work and not burning fuel to transport cross country/world . i think LEED is a interesting but misguided attempt i would rather have/support US canadian reclaimed wood or managed forest than plantation stewarded forests in boliva where there use to be jungle or where the bamboo is stripped in china when its not even mature but i am heading off on a rant lol
there is a dragon cement plant 5~10 miles away and a coal co-generation plant ~93 miles away , dont get exited its co generates for a paper mill not residential. but if i dont pay X amount to get LEED i will be in the spirit of it and keep records of everything major.... but i still like the idea of the ICFs loaded into purchased containers that ya see near ports cheap (ie boston) loaded prefered on trains and sent to my area and dropped in my site and used for storage afterwards. reclaimed barn wood and other stuff bike/small tractor in the off season . organic garden storage you name it

and a big thanks to all that posted locations of manufaturers