Composite Products Worth Seeing

You hear about people creating their summer reading lists, but Composites Manufacturing gives you a reading list of our own every week. No matter the season, you can always find some new products to read about, such as these three:

Buehler reveals its new ReVel diamond abrasive discs

Buehler has some revealing news: the company says its ReVēl (pronounced “reveal”) diamond abrasive grinding/polishing discs feature technology that prepares specimens from planar grind to final polish in four to seven minutes, reducing total polishing time by 63 to 78 percent, on respective materials. The discs are also designed to reduce cleaning/changeover time by 25 percent, reduce the number of steps by 25 percent and reduce the number of consumables to order by 33 percent. ReVēl’s diamond abrasive nanotechnology features diamond particles (coarse for high removal rates) coated with smaller colloidal silica particles (fine for polishing) to create a simultaneous material removal/polishing action. The company also claims two minutes of use with a disc that replaces all intermediate polishing steps between grinding and final polish.

LumenGel Ltd. is reaching the finish line with its new in-line gel coat finishing system for pultrusion products. This patent pending technology allows pultruded parts to be gel-coated in-line with a durable, near zero VOC gel coat developed by Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co., Inc. The in-line coating system allows users to finish parts with a durable gel coat that provides significant advantages over post painting at competitive prices. The system is designed to provide cost savings through lower energy cure requirements, rapid production of finished parts, low scrap rates, modular production/fabrication ability, low labor costs, and less manufacturing space required. This advanced coating system is easily retrofitted to existing pultrusion lines and is now available for world wide applications.

Wheeling onto the page is Kistler Group’s new RoaDyn S615: a wheel force transducer tailored to address issues such as weight and rolling resistance. Reduced vehicle masses and narrower tires allow further reduction of the weight of the carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) components of the transducer. It consists of an aluminum rim ring and matching wheel disk manufactured from carbon fiber reinforced plastic. The positive and frictional connection of these components ensures great strength. The inner part represents the connection with the hub and is also made of CFRP. It is optimized for recording load spectra for durability, vehicle dynamics and power train investigations.