Loading ...As we reach the middle of spring, many people are suffering from allergies due to the changing amounts of pollen in the air. These companies, however, are not allergic to changing the composite landscape as they offer new products:
As we reach the middle of spring, many people are suffering from allergies due to the changing amounts of pollen in the air. These companies, however, are not allergic to changing the composite landscape as they offer new products:
Mother’s Day is this Sunday. You could say these companies might be sending cards and flowers to necessity, for it’s the mother of invention.
With spring in full force, the increased amounts of pollen are causing many with allergies to hunker indoors for the time being. But these companies aren’t allergic to progress, as evidenced by their new product offerings:
As we celebrate Earth Day, let’s take a look at new products put out by companies from a variety of places on this planet we call home:
Putting some pizzazz into recycling, Acrilex, Inc. created Ecoglas, a new line of acrylic sheets. Made from 30 to 50 percent recycled plastic materials, the environmental sheets resemble beach glass, stained glass, jungle or desert camouflage and hard candy. Designed as a fusion between the art of acrylic casting with inclusion of colorful post-industrial...
This week marks the beginning of the new baseball season, and these companies hope to hit a home run with their new products: ITW Plexus is all about bonding; specifically, with three new structural adhesives designed to produce strong yet flexible bonds on composites and offer medium to long working times for large assemblies....
The name’s Bond…Tru-Bond. At least, that’s the name of ITW Devcon’s newest product. Tru-Bond Dual Cure Adhesives are designed to cure to a hard, scratch-resistant surface with UV light, visible light, heat, or combinations of light and heat. The company says the adhesives overcome oxygen inhibition barriers to allow curing with low-cost, low-intensity black...
Sterling Heights, Mich.-based MAG Industrial Automated Systems, which works with composite tooling, used consolidation as the motivation for its acquisitions. “In previous years, there were a lot of discussions about the machine tool industry and how fragmented it was,” says Rich Cronin, research and development manager for MAG. “It’s quite amazing; if you went...
Spring has officially sprung! The warmer weather is enough to re-energize many spirits, and these companies are feeling rejuvenated as they offer new products to the marketplace: Asahi Kasei Plastics North America Inc. is addressing creep resistance (the mechanical kind, not the unsavory individual kind) by launching a new polypropylene (PP) technology.
What was once CompositePro is now Helius: CompositePro Version 4.0. Developed by Firehole Technologies, Inc., this software is designed to give users access to fundamental composite analysis methods such as micromechanics and classical laminate analysis, as well as design tools for analysis of composite plates, sandwich panels, beams and tubes.
