New Products
NEW PRODUCTS
automated material delivery system
Fluid-Bag Ltd. (Jakobstad,
Finland) has developed the
PowerBagPress, a ���exible container designed to discharge
highly viscous and semisolid
materials from the company���s
900 and 1,000 liter (237 and
264 gal) Fluid-Bag MULTI and
FLEXI ���exible reactive chemical containers. The company���s
new press enables suppliers
who use the tubular containers to safely ship their products
(e.g., adhesives and other resin
products), and it allows the
customers who use those products to avoid the common problem of leaving
a good deal of product in the container as waste. During discharge the ���exible container, ���tted into the customer���s press, is squeezed ���at and rolled up,
much like a tube of toothpaste. Fluid-Bag claims that material residue in the
containers can be reduced to as little as 0.5 percent. The PowerBagPress was
speci���cally developed to reach a material ���ow of more than 35 kg/min (77 lb/
min), but in its ���rst implementation with a solid adhesive resin it reportedly
achieved a rate of 50 kg/min (110 lb/min). The press allows for two-component
mixing and is designed for use in the manufacture of large components, such
as aerospace structures, wind turbine blades and other sandwich constructions. www.���uid-bag.com
high tensile modulus glass fiber
Glass ���ber manufacturer AGY (Aiken, S.C.) has developed a new glass ���ber with
a tensile modulus of 99 GPa/14,359 ksi ��� a level AGY says is unprecedented in
commercial glass ���ber products.��Trademarked as S-3 UHM Glass, the ultrahigh
modulus material was developed using AGY���s advanced Modular Direct Melt
(MDM) production technology. Its mechanical properties, however, are the result
not only of the improved ���ber manufacturing technology, but also, says AGY, an
in-depth understanding of the constituent chemistries that enabled the company
to realize a tensile modulus 40 percent higher than that of traditional E-glass
���bers.��The new material reportedly makes it possible for composites designers
and manufacturers to use glass ���ber reinforcement in applications previously
open only to other types of ���ber.��S-3 UHM is available in a range of formats,
including yarns, rovings and chopped ���bers. www.agy.com
Precision Tooling and CNC Machining
for the Composites Industry
Precision
Steel
Invar
NVD Nickel
Weber Manufacturing Technologies Inc
Tel 705.526.7896 ��� Midland, ON
www.webermfg.ca
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