A neat little gizmo has popped up on the promotional product market that’s claimed to save up to 30% of the helium gas you would normally use to fill a latex balloon.

The Helium Saving Balloon Valve (HSV) is simply inserted into the neck of a balloon, allowing common-all-garden air to be drawn in at the same time as the helium.

Helium has become increasingly expensive owing to demand and the cost of extracting it. So HSV looks set to make a dramatic difference to the industry, making it cheaper to fill balloons and helping the environment too.

Liquid helium is used in MRI scanners. And indeed there has been controversy around balloons using up the planet’s scarce helium supplies, though in reality helium gas for balloons is in fact a recycled by-product from such applications.

Even so, as the demand for helium balloon gas increases so too does the need for the raw material from which it’s recycled.

Being light, the balloons still float for at least six hours, which is fairly standard for most other balloon valves. When filling a latex balloon from a disposable retail helium tank, the HSV can make the helium supply last longer than it normally would. It’s also child-safe, complying to EN-71 Toy Safety test standards.

At Arcadia, we are constantly looking for new innovations to offer to our clients that include eco-friendly and biodegradable alternatives of popular products.

For more information on balloons and other innovative, good quality, compliant promotional merchandise, contact us on 0845 130 2620 or email sales@arcadiaonline.co.uk.

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Jason Markwick

Having worked in Promotional Merchandise for the last 25 years I have been exposed to all aspects of the industry. Starting out as an account manager working with some of the worlds leading brands, I have learnt to understand the needs of a client, manufacturing processes, and what it takes to deliver a successful promotional campaign that is on brand, on time and within a given budget.