It’s the beginning of December. Have you started to make your list for Santa yet? Perhaps these new products will appear under the office Christmas tree: See Flo. No, we’re not telling you to look at a person or a moving river. It’s the name of Sealant Equipment & Engineering, Inc.’s new fixed-ratio, positive...
Below are 10 close-up photos of objects made of composites in the auto, sports and recreation, construction, renewable energy and other market segments. Everyone who posts the correct answers by Dec 15 will be entered in a drawing to win a free registration to COMPOSITES 2010 in Las Vegas, Feb. 9-11.
Testing, testing, one, two - Zwick is offering a patented new fixture for the testing of fiber-reinforced plastics. The company says its Hydraulic Composite Compression Fixture (HCCF) fixture offers several technical and cost saving advantages compared to existing mechanical fixtures such as Celanese or IITRI devices.
Composites companies are continually introducing new products into the marketplace. Here are a few products released this past week: Advanced Composites Group has a new kid – er, block – on the block. CB1100 is a high-grade ceramic tooling block material offering a combination of high temperature resistance and exceptionally low coefficient of thermal...
Airtech International has added a new member to its Econostitch line it hopes will be quite a-peel-ing. Econostitch G is a polyester peel ply designed to be used with both polyester and epoxy resins. The company says the G has black tracers with high visibility to reduce the risk of peel ply being left...
Spectronics Corporation, Westbury, N.Y., released the MAXIMA ML- 3500C UV lamp, designed to reduce cure time for adhesives, coatings, inks, epoxies, resins, printed circuit boards, plastics and other materials. The lamp uses Micro Discharge Light technology, which the company says enables the lamp’s 35-watt bulb to deliver more UV-A energy. BGF Industries, Inc., Greensboro,...
BinMaster Level Controls, Lincoln, Neb., released the PROCAP capacitance probe with a flexible, extendable cable designed for high, mid or low level detection when the capacitance probe must be mounted on the top of the bin. It is intended for applications where a probe is used as a high level alarm or needs to...
ConProTec, Salem, N.H., introduced a MIXPAC S-50 system for two-component adhesive dispensing. The system is designed for usage with DTIC Dispensing Technology’s electric hand-held adhesive dispenser. According to the company, the new system can accommodate an additional volumetric ratio of 3:2 in addition to the standard MIXPAC System’s ratios of 1:1, 2:1, 4:1 and...
Nida-Core, Port St. Lucie, Fla., announced type approval of its isotropic NidaFusion SXO core material by DNV (Det Norske Veritas). NidaFusion SXO uses triangulated fiberglass pin truss system within the foam structure to mechanically link the skins in the sandwich structure. NidaFusion SXO is specifically designed for structural applications within wind energy, marine, architectural and transportation industries. Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries now offers TUFROV...
Axion International Holdings, Inc., Basking Ridge, N.J., has just completed the construction of two 100 percent recycled plastic bridges for the US Army. The eco-friendly structural building materials used in the bridges have been specifically engineered to allow for the crossing of armored military vehicles. The composite bridges, commissioned by the military and built...
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