British Plastics & Rubber articles from May 2002

British Plastics & Rubber archives from May 2002

Could this be the end of stock colours? (Process Additives & Colouring).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Pressure to reduce stock holding of materials, the advent of just in time production and demands to get products into the retail chain as fast as possible are forcing processors to seek greater levels of service. Fortunately the latest...

Pigment choice is important for a long cable life. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Polyone and Borealis join for a study)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... POLYONE and Borealis have joined forces to study the interaction between unimodal and bimodal polyethylene and coloured pigments in wire and cable jacketing applications. The formulation of a coloured polymer material calls for the right...

Gold and pearls in an easier to handle format. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... THE GOLD and pearlescent pigment ranges from Eckart are being revamped into easier-to-handle formats. The Mastersafe Gold range is now available in 24 types based on eight pigment formulations. They consist of 90 per cent metal pigment and...

Vita takes over Metacol masterbatch. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Vita Thermoplastic Compounds has bought the solids colouring business remaining after Metacol's liquid colouring business was bought in March by ColorMatrix. VTC is moving Metacol's four masterbatch extrusion lines to its Silvergate Plastics...

Continuing research into liquid PET additives. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... PET Solutions is the latest range of liquid additives for PET bottle preforms from ColorMatrix Europe. It includes an acetaldehyde scavenger effective at 100 to 500 ppm to achieve 70 to 80 per cent AA reduction. A reheat additive reduces by...

Great Lakes raises flame retardant price. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Great Lakes Chemical Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... GREAT Lakes Chemical Corporation has increased the price of its Firemaster 2100 flame retardant globally by $0.22/kg.

Magnetite adds weight and more to plastics and rubbers. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Minelco iron additive)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... AN IRON additive for plastics and rubbers which imparts electro conductive and magnetic properties is being produced by Minelco, a subsidiary of Swedish mining company LKAB. Magnetite ([Fe.sub.3][O.sub.4]) is used in numerous applications...

Ciba buys melamine flame retardant business from DSM...and gets more involved with rubber. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Ciba Specialty Chemicals acquires Melapur)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... CIBA Specialty Chemicals has bought the Melapur melamine-based flame retardant business from DSM. Melapur is a non-halogenated flame retardant which will be sold alongside Ciba's existing Flamestab and Tinuvin halogen-free products. Flamestab...

Ciba buys melamine flame retardant business from DSM...and gets more involved with rubber. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... COLOURS and additives for use in coloured rubber are being packaged by Ciba Specialty Chemicals into a product range for sale through specialist distributors. In addition, the company is planning new additives for use with black compounds to...

Mixed metals past muster against heavy metal stabilisers. (Process Additives & Colouring).(OMG PlastiStab 3000 series)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... THE TREND away from heavy metal heat stabilisers for PVC has brought a number of mixed metal stabilisers, notably calcium-zinc. A recent addition to the market is OMG's PlastiStab 3000 series available in five grades for different PVC...

Global sales co-operation for new nucleating agent. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Asahi Denka Kogyo product to be marketed by Ciba Specialty Chemicals and ADK)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A NUCLEATING agent for polymers, developed by Asahi Denka Kogyo, is to be sold globally by ADK and Ciba Specialty Chemicals. Under the co-marketing agreement the material will be sold as Irgastab NA 11 by Ciba and as Adkstab NA-11 by ADK. ...

Flame retardant and UV stabiliser combined 'for the first time'. (Process Additive & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... CO-OPERATION between Gabriel-Chemie and Ciba Specialty Chemicals has resulted in the introduction of a combined flame retardant and UV stabiliser masterbatch for thick walled PP products. Gabriel-Chemie says that it had previously been...

A wizard way of improving mould release. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... RELEASE properties of EPDM are greatly improved by the addition of MoldWiz INT-1117EL processing aid, claims Axel Plastics Research Laboratories. The company says that many EPDM materials have good physical properties but are difficult to...

Solid coagents 'better than methacrylates'. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Cray Valley Products Inc. offers sold coagents)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Sarat 75 EPM solid coagents from Cray Valley photocure resins division are said to have better performance than conventional methacrylate coagents. Good adhesion to metals and high flex fatigue strength are claimed. They are available in dust...

Added clarity puts PP into contention. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... USE of a clarifying agent from Milliken has enabled the Danish-based Scanbech Group, which specialises in bottles, closures and tablet containers, to launch three new containers in polypropylene and reap benefits that would not have been...

Clear HALS improves light stability in liquid polymer systems. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... CLAIMED to offer better performance than traditional ultra violet absorbers, Lowilite 92 is a new HALS (Hindered Amine Light Stabiliser) product available from Great Lakes as a clear liquid with good solubility in polyols. It is said to be...

Single-source supply for PVC-coated fabric manufacturers. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... TEXTILE PROCESSORS supplying the PVC-coated fabrics market can now source bonding agents and PVC stabilisers from the same supplier. Akcros Chemicals has opened a 'one-stop shop' to supply both bonding agents and PVC stabilisers, offering...

Pelleted processing aid for sheet and film. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... CHIEFLY intended for film and sheet production, Maxithen SAN 792780 PPA (Polymer Processing Aid) is a new natural coloured masterbatch supplied in pellet form by Gabriel-Chemie. The product will adhere to the metal surfaces of the screw, nozzle...

Anchor addition expands Swan rubber range. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... CASABOND 1200 additives have been launched by Thomas Swan for improved dispersion and reduced energy usage in rubber processing. Other benefits are said to include less fuming and better handling characteristics. The additives have been...

UV inhibitor for agricultural film does not disappear over time. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... DOUGLAS Baker Plastics has developed a new masterbatch to inhibit UVA and UVB radiation. Known as BakerAgri, it is available for most thermoplastics materials but has greatest potential in the production of agricultural films to protect growing...

Conductive blacks for making ESD compounds. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... CABOT has introduced Vulcan XC605 and XC305 conductive carbon blacks for the production of electrostatic discharge (ESD) compounds. Both have good dispersion characteristics to create a network of conductive particles throughout the finished...

Paxton puts gravimetrics on trial. (Process Additives & Colouring).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... PAXTON is a large company producing PP renewable transit packaging containers, typically for supermarkets, bakeries and high street retailers. It has historically used masterbatch colouring, and has operated volumetric dosing equipment to...

Improvements to 'dosing cylinder' colour feeders. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Movacolor)(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... A HIGHER throughput capability has been added to the Movacolor MC-Balance gravimetric dosing unit, making it suitable for extruders running at 1,000kg/hr or more, and larger injection moulding machines. It can also now be used for adding...

Blending with no moving parts. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The dosing of additives to a pre-mix or the melt itself can be enhanced by adding a static mixer to the flow. A static mixer can be used to mix dry pellets upstream of the feed hopper, or can act as a masterbatch doser by incorporation ahead of...

Gravimetric batch blender is redesigned. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... COLORTRONIC has updated the design of its Ultrablend gravimetric batch blender to improve ease of use. The controller allows simple set up. Percentages of components required are input directly and technical analysis of important parameters has...

Colortronic is the C-Flex universal feeder which is intended for use with granular, powder and flake materials. (Process Additives & Colouring).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... * Also new from Colortronic is the C-Flex universal feeder which is intended for use with granular, powder and flake materials. The steep hopper walls are made in polyurethane and are externally massaged to ensure consistent mass flow of...

Wood filler has less moisture to ease processing. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... WTL INTERNATIONAL has lowered the moisture content of its wood fibre filler to widen its potential in wood/plastic composites. The new Fibretron Dri organic natural soft wood fibres have a moisture content of less than 2 per cent compared...

Granulated fibres make it easier to add wood. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... ALLCHEM International now offers a range of granulated wood fibres and composite materials for wood extrusion and injection moulding. Granulated wood fibres are said to overcome the problems associated with mixing wood fibres into polymers...

European wood process to make Puerto Rican houses. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ORDERS for equipment for the production of wood filled extrusions on a large scale have been placed with Cincinnati Extrusion. Industrias Vassallo of Puerto Rico is to make wood-filled profiles for 50,000 hurricane proof houses over the...

Everything you need for wood extrusion. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A complete package for woodfilled polymer extrusion from Crompton Corporation in the USA goes further than most packages in that Crompton supplies a range of additives for compound formulation and can supply the Woodtruder extruder built by its...

Berstorff rethinks silicone extrusion. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... BERSTORFF has revamped its technology for processing solid silicone rubber. It now uses a re-circulating hot air oven in addition to infra-red vulcanisation, with a shock oven upstream. The line is driven by a cold-feed extruder. Each of...

Expanded range of downstream from British manufacturer. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... BRITISH extrusion systems manufacturer Mapex is now building twin screw as well as single screw extruders, and has added a number of downstream units for producing pipes and profiles. The latest of these is an out of line slitting/drilling...

Increase output with a bigger barrel. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... DAVIS-Standard has introduced the IDI (Internal Diameter Increase) retrofit conversion to increase extruder output with minimum downtime and outlay. It involves the replacement of the screw and barrel, feed section and breaker plate with larger...

Measure eight layers in a coex pipe at the same time. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... THE latest UMAC-CI ultrasonic thickness measurement gauge from Zumbach can measure up to eight layers in a coextruded pipe simultaneously with a minimum layer thickness of 10 microns. It can also measure tube with walls as thin as 0.01 mm and...

Probe tests. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... INTENDED for users of ultrasonic probes, as fitted in thickness gauges, new Sonatest Probe Tester software enables a digital flaw detector to be employed to test these components in both pulse echo and through transmission. A database of probe...

Rapid payback from downtime saved by universal calibrator. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A PAYBACK time of five months has been achieved at Wavin with the use of adjustable calibrating sleeves from Rival, and a similar result has been achieved by Uponor. Pipe manufacturers typically need three to five calibrating sleeves, but...

Line speed module gives more control flexibility. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... PlastAdviser has added a master line speed module to its gravimetric measuring and control unit which allows a profile line to be started at moderate speed for feeding the extrudate through guides and jigs. The operator may then ramp up the...

Wall thickness gauge has open layout. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... SCANTRON has launched its Ultragauge 4000 ultrasonic wall thickness measurement system which uses four point focus sensors mounted around the product. Wall thickness of standard tubing can be measured as well as three coextruded layers. The...

High accuracy cutting at high extrusion line speeds. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... AC brushless servo motors with digital control are fitted to the new Gillard Servo-Torq Ultra rotary cutter to maintain length accuracies to within [+ or -]0.06 mm at high line speeds. Each caterpillar infeeder belt has its own AC servo drive...

Ink jet printers mark pipe where hot foil coders couldn't cope. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... EVERY metre of Geberit (UK) Terrain brand pipe produced from 21 to 160mm diameter is marked by Imaje S4 and S4+ inkjet printers. The company makes 200 tonnes of soil, waste, rainwater and drainage pipes a week and each length is marked with the...

New technology nylon 12s extend pipe and tube applications. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Special grades of nylon have been developed by Ube Industries for automotive fuel tubing -- already an application for PA12 -- and also for gas pipe where despite its higher price it is said to be a cost-efficient alternative to PVC and...

Systemised approach to pipe coiling. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A NOVEL system for the production of coils or straight lengths of PE, XLPE and polybutylene pipe up to 40mm in diameter has been developed by Pipe Coil Technology. It can be supplied as an upgrade for an extrusion line and comprises a haul off,...

Smart Hopper controls up to eight layers. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... DESIGNED to monitor the material consumption of extrusion lines and control the extruder, the new Colortronic Smart Hopper II is said to achieve an accuracy of [+ or -]0.5 per cent. Coextrusion with up to eight layers can be controlled....

Eurocell invests in six more lines. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... EUROCELL PROFILES of Alfreton has bought six Battenfeld extrusion lines for building profiles including window profiles and foamed extrusions. Included in the installation is equipment for dual strand extrusion of window profiles. These...

Robots pick and place profiles faster than people can. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... To demonstrate how robots may be used in extrusion downstream handling, Conair has fitted a Fanuc M6i articulated-arm robot to palletise PVC fence profiles coming off a high-speed line in its Pittsburgh, USA, technical centre. With large...

Independent AC drive on each haul off track up to eight. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... NEW caterpillar haul offs have been produced by Pipe Coil Technology. Four, six and eight track models give line pull capacities from 1.2 to 5 tonnes and suit pipe diameters from 40 to 800 mm. Accurate line speed control derives from the...

Battenfeld buys its pipe socketing supplier. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... BATTENFELD Extrusionstechnik has taken over the pipe socketing equipment operation of Thyssen Krupp Group subsidiary Nothelfer. The two companies have cooperated for a number of years, and Nothelfer equipment has been sold in this country...

More performance-related materials options for cables. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... NEW cable jacketing compounds have been introduced by Borealis and PolyOne. Borstar HE 6081 from Borealis is a high-density polyethylene compound designed specifically for All-Dielectric Self-Supporting (ADSS) cable applications. It is...

Stretching PVC cuts pipe weight. (Pipe & Profile Extrusion).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... NEW Wavin Apollo PVC-O biaxially oriented pressure pipe is available in black and intended for buried water distribution systems for non potable applications such as irrigation and sewer pumping mains. It is tougher and lighter than standard...

Just because it's fixed doesn't mean it's right; hot runner control: the factors that really matter. (Injection Moulding).
May 1, 2002... WITH reference to last month's letter from Chris Siddall of Eastern Plastics Machinery commenting on our technology for controlling hot runner operation by measuring cavity temperature I would like to add that it is not our goal to question the...

When temperature is so important, why cut corners? (Injection Moulding).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... I STAND by what I said in my letter in April about cavity temperature control alone not being the answer to hot runner imbalance. However I do agree with Mr Bader's comments on the need for accurate control based on relevant condition...

'Bolt-on' module improves flexibility for 2K moulding. (Injection Moulding).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... CAP moulder Kutterer has retrofitted a Windsor PlugXPress WKT1injection unit with 24 mm screw and 46 g shot capacity to an existing machine at its Karlsruhe, Germany, factory to permit two component moulding. The company serves L'Oreal, Nestle,...

New nozzle cures many moulding ailments. (Injection Moulding).(Spirex)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... THE Spirex Eliminator nozzle tip can be used, claims the manufacturer, to eliminate stringing, drool, cold slugs, freeze off and sticking sprues in amorphous, semi-crystalline and shear-sensitive materials. One moulder reported incurring 10 to...

Mecaplast merges with Neyr. (Injection Moulding).(Neyr Group)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... FRENCH automotive moulder Mecaplast has taken over control of the struggling Neyr Group, also French. Together they form a [euro]600 million group with some 5,500 employees in 15 countries. Neyr has a moulding plant in Peterlee.

Demag is Broanmain's latest. (Injection Moulding).(Broanmain installs Demag molding machinery)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... BROANMAIN of Dorking has taken delivery of a 25 tonne Demag machine fitted with magnetic platens to reduce set-up times. The company moulds both thermoplastics and thermosets, and now has more than 30 moulding machines.

Cast PP opens the door to speciality films. (Film & Sheet).(polyolefin film)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... WITH UK polyolefin film production running in excess of a million tonnes a year, the 24,000 tonnes of cast polypropylene that is produced seems quite small beer. But with an annual growth rate around double that of polyolefin films overall at 7...

Design software investment yields new series of air rings. (Film & Sheet).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... PLAST-CONTROL has invested in gas and fluid simulation software, as used in the aircraft industry, which takes CAD designs and calculates flow rates, turbulence, pressure points and pressure drops to reduce development time. It has used it to...

Italian supermarket adopts fully compostable biopolymer packaging. (Film & Sheet).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... AN ITALIAN supermarket chain is to introduce a 'natural in natural' package during the summer when it starts to sell fresh food and pasta in thermoformed containers with heat-sealable film overlays made in Cargill Dow's NatureWorks polylactide...

The best things in life are free: more than 300,000 copies of the Campus materials database have been distributed worldwide. The program is free, which is good, and now does even more, which is better. Clive Maier looks inside. (Software Review).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... THE best free offer in plastics just got better. The introduction of version 4.5 of the Campus plastics database brings significant improvements, not the least being new coverage of thermoplastic elastomers and film grades. With more than...

Gear design by browser: the tools available on the internet are increasing in number all the time. Clive Maier looks at the latest aid to designers, a gear design calculator from Ticona. (Software Review).(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... THE injection moulded gear is a common component in mechanisms of all kinds. It provides smooth nearsilent running at a fraction of the cost of a machined metal gear. Nylons and acetals are the usual materials of choice but for all its...

E-promotion arrives. (Software Review).(Cabot Corp. offers two carbon blacks for electrostatic discharge applications)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... TIME was when you had a new product line you wrote a news release, printed a brochure, and waited for the press and the sales force to run with it. That's the old way. Now move over for the e-promotion. Yes, it is product promotion by the...

VX offers more for moulds. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... THE NEW version 6 of VX Corporation's VX CAD/CAM includes enhancements for mould designers and mouldmakers. A mould design wizard now automates the creation of electrodes, using any component designed in VX as its source. The wizard handles...

New features for Polyflow. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... FLUENT has released version 3.9 of Polyflow. The program simulates laminar polymer flow through dies and moulds in processes such as extrusion, blow moulding and fibre spinning. Adaptive and non-conformal meshing now helps in the...

Software directory. (Software Review).(Brief Article)(Directory)
May 1, 2002... INJECTION MOULDING Estimating PlasWare Estimating & Costing Plastics Software Ltd (01428 656595). E-mail: sales @plasware.co.uk Web site: www.plasware.co.uk Single user price: From [pounds sterling]1,500. ...

WRAP. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... The Waste and Resources Action Programme, otherwise known as WRAP, has launched a web site with the intention of increasing recycling levels in the UK. It aims to do this by providing companies with a one-stop shop for all the information they...

PolyOne Corporation. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... The web site of polymer producer PolyOne is now a truly global operation. From the home page you click on one of three regions -- North America, Europe, Asia -- to be taken to a subsite where the content is pertinent to the locality. The...

Cinpres Gas Injection. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... The company has redesigned its site to form a comprehensive guide of more than 130 pages to assisted injection moulding. The topics include water injection and Scorim as well as internal and external gas assist processes. The site contains...

Dow Wire & Cable Compounds. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... Dow is a leading producer of polyolefin-based products for the wire and cable industry, and has set up this site to market its materials online. It is a global site with regional zones for North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America....

Dow Corning. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... Dow Corning has added a 'Custom Compounder' e-business tool to its web site. The module has been designed to match user-specified needs as effectively as possible with the company's range of Silastic silicone rubbers, liquid silicone elastomers...

Ambersil Industrial. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... Ambersil's new site details its wide range of industrial consumables and maintenance chemicals. Products are broken down into key market sectors for moulding, engineering, electrical servicing, general maintenance and specialist applications....

Design composites within CAD systems. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... VERSION 4.0 of Vistagy's FiberSIM transforms CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER and Unigraphics CAD systems into specialized environments for composite components. The tools automate the design process, assess the feasibility of composite parts and generate...

Delcam automates slide and cooling channel design. (Software Review).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... PS-MOLDMAKER, Delcam's automated injection mould design software, now has wizards for designing slides and cooling channels. The Slide Wizard acts on any area of the part identified by the undercut shading option within PowerSHAPE. The...

CDs stand out with Edge Glow. (Colour Effects).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... GE Plastics has developed a coloured 'Edge Glow' effect for CDs and DVDs. Fluorescent dyes are used to colour the polycarbonate so that light-piping creates a colour accent on the disc edge. Edge Glow is being promoted as an attractive...

Paint for plastics-coated cladding. (Coatings).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... Quentsplass, a Boston Chemicals company, has developed a finish specifically for reviving plasticscoated sidings. Such materials are widely used for buildings and fencing, and were initially intended to need no painting or finishing. However,...

Extra-tough butyl rubber in pellet form. (Elastomers).(Advertisement)
May 1, 2002... Elementis Specialties has developed a cross-linked pelletised butyl rubber for use as a base resin in butyl sealants and vibration control compounds. Kalar 5280 provides butyl properties at compound concentrations as low as 5 per cent. The...

Elastomer goes global. (Elastomers).(DSM Elastomers )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... DSM Elastomers has made its Keltan 7631A EPDM a global grade, available worldwide. The material was initially developed for Asian markets where its dynamic performance and heat stability made it particularly suitable for automotive applications...

Barlo brings colour to Spectar sheets. (Sheet).(Barlo Plastics)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Barb Plastics has extended its Spectar line of PETG sheets to include a range of colours and two new thicknesses of 12 mm and 15 mm. The new colours include white, black and grey, together with a bronze shade. The range is completed by...

LabVIEW link to Lloyd and Chatillon testers. (Control and Analysis).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Lloyd and Chatillon materials testing systems can now be controlled using the industry-standard LabVIEW visual programming software from National Instruments. What makes this possible is a new software utility developed by Ametek Lloyd...

New dynamic mechanical analyser. (Materials Characterisation).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Triton Technology has released its latest dynamic mechanical analyser, the Tritec2000. The company believes this offers the lowest cost of ownership, virtually no calibration requirements for most applications, an excellent specification and...

Stress checks in real time. (Quality Control).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... By automating photoelastic stress analysis, VisEng has made the technique suitable for use in a production line where it can provide real-time quality checks on products such as CDs and bottles. The company's GPF2000 greyfield poleidoscope...

Commodity-priced purging compound. (Purging Agents).(introduced by Blackbrook Chemical)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Canadian company Blackbrook Chemical has produced a purging compound costing a claimed 60 to 80 per cent less than competitive products. HD-Purge is a high-density pelletised material said to result from two years of development work with...

Retrofit chamber for hot and cold testing. (Temperature Testing).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... The effect on products of temperature extremes can be gauged with the aid of a new range of temperature test chambers from Hounsfield Test Equipment. Units are available for all major brands of testing equipment, and the company can also...

Bending thin materials. (Fabricating).(with Awltech semiautomatic machine)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Awltech has introduced a semiautomatic machine for bending thin material from 0.4 mm to 0.75 mm, for items such as name badges and point of sale displays. The machine can produce name badges at a rate of more than 1,000 an hour, and...

Pressurised water units enhanced. (Temperature Control).(advertisement)
May 1, 2002... Tricool Engineering has enhanced its range of pressurised water temperature control units with the introduction of a number of new features. An auto shut-down system is now fitted as standard. This employs a solenoid valve, level switch...