‘Substrates’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release Designing joints and structural adhesives from ITW Plexus, which we summarised at the time by saying "Sally Sinai, technical manager of ITW Plexus, considers the issues that should be considered before designing joints to be bonded together with structural adhesives.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Epoxy structural bonding from Loctite from Henkel Loctite Adhesives: "The Loctite Hysol Epoxy adhesive range comprises one- and two-component epoxies that offer improved clarity, less odour, better flow, higher strength and greater durability than competitive products. ".

In October 2009, we covered the news from Vishay Micro-Measurements - take a look at Vishay provides web tension system for pilot plant which says: "Vishay Intertechnology has provided a web tension measurement system to Western Michigan University (WMU) for use in its Coating Pilot Plant.".

Take a look also at the news release from Henkel Loctite Adhesives, Henkel enhances threadlocking adhesives, as well as Newport unveils thin film coated mirrors from Newport Spectra-Physics, and Newport develops micromachining workstation from Newport Spectra-Physics.

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Thermal epoxy adhesive optimises heat transfer (September 2009)

Master Bond's EP30BN is a two-part boron nitride epoxy adhesive offering improved thermal management of heat-generating components.

MacDermid launches black electroless nickel (August 2009)

MacDermid has launched the Niklad Eclipse black electroless nickel, which allows the production of a deep black finish by the use of a post-plating immersion dip onto a duplex coating.

MacDermid shows its range of paint pre-treatments (August 2009)

MacDermid offers a range of paint pre-treatments that offer improved paint bonding and corrosion resistance.

Ceramic material delivers heat protection (July 2009)

The Zircotec lightweight flexible ceramic heat-shield material, Zircoflex, is said to reduce surface temperatures by up to 33 per cent.

Araldite adhesive bonds components and fixtures (June 2009)

Huntsman Advanced Materials has revealed how Araldite 2031 is being used by Bilsing Automation to join carbon fibre structural components with aluminium fixtures for its robot arm.

Thin film-based gauges monitor local environments (June 2009)

Reynard, a supplier of optical components and custom thin-film coatings, has introduced thin film-based environmental gauges.

Stemmer offers Printqual image processing tool (May 2009)

Stemmer Imaging has unveiled the Printqual Image Processing Tool for print quality inspection, as part of the Common Vision Blox hardware-independent imaging toolkit.

InAs offers extended blocking range (April 2009)

Reynard has announced the addition of polished and coated indium arsenide (InAs) to its list of manufacturing capabilities.

Elastomer compounds bond to multiple substrates

RTP 6042 elastomer compounds offer a wide processing window to moulders using either multishot or insert moulding techniques.
Substrates block vehicle noise

PGI materials are being expanded into package trays, hush panels, dash insulators and HVAC ducts.