Agricultural Film 2008
AMI has just announced the programme for the first international conference on Agricultural Film, which will be held in Barcelona from 18-20th February 2008.
AMI - Sept. 25, 2007
Free Focused Training Modules For Injection Molders Now Available Online
A. Routsis Associates, Inc., a division of RJG Inc., has updated their website and released their new series of Focused Training Modules. This Free service can easily be obtained by subscribing.
RJG - Sept. 25, 2007
Vectra® LCP Gives LED Packaging from Spectrum Plastics Ability to Withstand Lead-Free Soldering
To gain the abilities for the millions of LED open-cavity packages it produces each year, Spectrum Plastics, a business of Barnes Group Inc., turned to the Vectra® S series liquid crystal polymers (LCP) from Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation.
Spectrum Plastics - Sept. 24, 2007
Masterbatch Technology Utilized in New Long Fiber Compounds from RTP Company
RTP Company’s expertise in color and additive masterbatches has extended to its engineered long fiber thermoplastic (LFT) compounds with the introduction of long cut additives. The long-cut masterbatches are available as cube blends with RTP Company’s line of LFT products.
RTP - Sept. 17, 2007
APTIV™ Film Made from Victrex® PEEK™ Polymer Enhances Design of America's Cup Racing Yacht
United Internet Team Germany entered this year’s challenge for the America’s Cup with a newly designed yacht, “GER 89,” featuring Victrex APTIV™ film to protect intensely stressed parts. APTIV film, made with VICTREX® PEEK™ polymer, was selected for its extreme wear-resistance and is applied to the hull and parts under the deck to protect them from friction and pressures arising from high sailing speeds.
Victrex - Sept. 12, 2007
Veritas Offers Charge-Air Components
Using Fortron® PPS Multifilaments
Veritas AG in Gelnhausen, Germany, has developed elastomeric hoses reinforced with Fortron® polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) multifilament to meet the performance demands of the highly stressed charge-air lines in diesel-engine turbochargers.
Veritas - Sept. 11, 2007
Victrex® PEEK™ Polymer Provides Complete Encapsulation for Miniature Sensor Used in Deep Drilling Equipment
When micro molder CG.TEC Injection, Frasne, France wanted to completely encapsulate a miniature sensor using a 2-stage duplicate molding process, it chose VICTREX® PEEK™ polymer, a high performance thermoplastic, because of its ability to withstand extreme environments and because it offered unrivaled design freedom due to the ease of processing on conventional equipment.
Victrex - Sept. 6, 2007
Waste Incinerator Dust Filter Using Fortron® PPS
Staple Fiber Gives Exceptional Longevity
The fabric filter bags that comprise the heart of a flue-gas dust separator in a German waste incinerator have shown remarkable longevity. Most of the bags, which use a needlefelt fabric made of Fortron® polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), are still in use after 110 months even though their service life was warranted for 36 months.
Ticona - Sept. 4, 2007
Metal Detectors ‘See’ Parts Molded From New DuPont™ Delrin® Grade
New DuPont™ Delrin® 400MTD acetal resin aims to open up more applications in food processing conveyors. Made with a proprietary metal filler, it can be detected by most metal-sensing equipment in the unlikely event of a part’s entry into the process stream.
DuPont - Sept. 4, 2007
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