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'Plug-and-Play' Weight Reduction Solution by Hollow Glass Microspheres
Fillers have been in use since the early days of plastics. Today's enormous growth of the polymer industry is due to the unique. properties that fillers impart to polymers. Glass bubbles (low density hollow glass microspheres) as fillers have been incorporated into. thermoset polymers for decades
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Innovative High Strength Glass Microspheres for Extruded and Injection Molded Parts (.pdf)
High strength, low density glass microspheres (3MTM Glass Bubbles) have been developed and commercialized for use in extrusion and injection molding processes. The new and innovative 3MTM Performance Additives iM30K are low in density, and can survive extremely high compressive forces, providing
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Plastics Consultancy Network - Gob,spew and snot
the traditional glass and metalworking trades, from the shop floor artisan as well as from chemistry and engineering. In recent years it has been much influenced by modern German. Plastics Consultancy Network - Gob,spew and snot. Gob, Spew and Snot - the jargon of the plastics industry. by John
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Alkyd
dimensional stability and electrical properties are the outstanding characteristics of most alkyd molding compounds. For electrical-grade materials, absorption can be as low as 0.5%. Alkyds are relatively low-loss materials, especially the mineral-filled and glass-filled grades. Those containing
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Thermoset Composites
networks in the cured part. The early high-performance thermoset-matrix materials were called advanced composites, differentiating them from the glass/polyester composites that were emerging commercially in the 1950s. The "advanced" term has come to denote, to most engineers, a resin-matrix material
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Polyester
are mixtures of polyester resins, thermoplastic polymers, and glass-fiber reinforcement. These are used to mold parts with smooth surfaces that can be painted without the need for prior sanding. Bulk-molding compounds (BMC) are mixtures of polyester resin, short-glass fibers (1/8 to '/, in. long
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Grille guard garners top automotive accolade
A radical technique that insert-molds a 1.5-in.-diameter chrome tube inside glass-filled polypropylene (PP) gave a brush grille guard for GM SUVs and trucks the top automotive prize in an annual plastic parts competition. The contest took place during the Innovations Conference sponsored by Winona
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Hanil E-Hwa and 3M Team Up to Help Automotive OEMs (.pdf)
% in a number of their key. components, by replacing conventional talc filler with 3MTM Glass. Bubbles in a proprietary polypropylene compound. Driven by increasing demands to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,. automakers worldwide are in a race to find new ways for improving the. fuel efficiency