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LOCTITE® Adhesives Provide Speedy, Durable Solutions for Joker FX
Description: Joker FX can now complete projects in as little as 24 hours, thanks to LOCTITE® instant and structural adhesives. ...
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When It Comes to Bonding, 4moms Trusts LOCTITE® Solutions
Description: Thanks to 3-D printing and the support of LOCTITE® products, 4moms is able to achieve rapid product development in a demanding market. ...
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Why Adhesives are Important for Recycling
Description: To make recycling work, material compatibility is key. Our adhesives are a part of the solution. ...
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Pressure Sensitive Adhesives Q&A: More Answers from Avery Dennison
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: Our suppliers make great materials and provide helpful advice. Let's learn even more benefits of pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes from Avery Dennison design and applications engineer Michael Price. ...
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How to Choose Crucibles in TGA Experiments?
Description: Alumina Crucible (Ceramic Crucible) is the most commonly used crucible in TGA experiments. It is relatively stable for most samples and doesn't react with the samples. In the range of room temperature ...
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Can A Rubber Band Change The Way You Work?
Description: The Challenge: to find an innovative rubber band that could change flower delivery expectations for KaBloom Flowers, Gifts and More®! ...
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Guide to Monel 400: Insights and Advantages
Description: When manufacturing end use applications that will be used in extreme environments such as those which need to withstand extreme temperatures, high pressure or incredibly corrosive environments, ...
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High Performance Fastener Alloys for Critical Applications
Description: When an application calls for fasteners that can withstand atmospheric or chemical corrosion, elevated temperatures or a combination of both, fastener makers find themselves dealing with ...
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Silicone Benefits & Uses
Description: Five Reasons to Switch to Silicone for Industrial Rubber Parts UV & Ozone Resistance Extreme Cold & High Heat Endurance Range of Durometers Color Options Custom Variations From pharmaceuticals to food ...
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Titanium Facts & Characteristics: Manufacturers Guide
Description: Choosing the right metal for your application is crucial to ensuring a finished product that is not only able to serve its intended purpose but that also meets all safety specifications. Titanium is a ...
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How to Get a Stronger Weld Through Cleaning
From: Brighton ScienceDescription: Even though we look around us and see plastic everywhere, in every shape and imaginable application, metals are still a more commonly used raw material in machined products. Metals are the legacy ...
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What's the Difference Between Honing and Roller-burnishing?
From: Sunnen Products CompanyDescription: Hydraulic valves, piston pumps and cylinders require increasingly close fits between the piston or spool and bore to reduce internal leakage. The components also need precision surface finishes for ...
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3D Metal Printing - Optimum Process Conditions are Decisive for Component Quality
From: E+E ElektronikDescription: In the additive production of metal parts, the process conditions have a direct influence on the quality of the finished product. Gas management in particular plays a key role in 3D metal printing. ...
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Improve Composite Molding Efficiency with Tapes
Description: Molds are used extensively to lay-up large scale composite structures, such as wings, fuselages, propellers, antennas, wind turbine blades, boat hulls and vehicles (Figure 1). These molds are then ...
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Bonding Tapes Satisfy a Wide Range of Transportation Applications
Description: The selection of an appropriate tape for a given application is critical to ensure ease of installation, proper adhesion, cleaner appearance and long-term reliability. Transportation applications have ...
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Heat Sealing Tapes Improve Manufacturing Efficiency
Description: The value of a high-quality heat sealing tape is an important element in heat sealing machine applications. These machines apply high temperatures to plastic sheets or films to form air- or ...
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Manufacturing Face Shields During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Description: D2 and General Plastics Work Together to Keep Healthcare Workers Safe ...
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Alpha Titanium vs. Beta Titanium vs. Commercially Pure Titanium
Description: Titanium is a popular transitional metal that is used in the manufacturing of many products including jewelry, surgical tools, tennis racks, and much more. It has the strength of steel at half the ...
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Investment Casting
Description: Investment Casting is also called "lost wax casting" or "precision casting". It's an industrial process, actually one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques, to manufacture metal parts. ...
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Metal Ductility: The Key to Deep Drawing Stainless and Stainless Alloys
Description: Before we dive into metal ductility and how it may affect a manufacturing operation, let's backtrack and take a look at the history of metal forming. The history of manufacturing operations and metal ...
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Ulbrich Designs New PV Ribbon Solution
Description: Ulbrich's Engineers always show pride when seeing their PV ribbon products in solar modules. Our customers do not always appreciate that same look of shiny metal especially when solar modules are used ...
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Understanding the Difference Between Annealing and Tempering
Description: When it comes to annealing and tempering, there are often different explanations for both, but it is important to understand the difference when it comes to the production of metal and what each means ...
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Case Study: Using & Monitoring Composite Insulators on Overhead Lines under Natural Pollution
From: OFIL SystemsDescription: The 500 kV Xingó-Angelim II Line that runs through northeastern Brazil, connecting the Xingó Hydroelectric Plant in Alagoas State to Angelim II Substation in Pernambuco, suffered a series of shutdown ...
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Cost Comparison: OE750 vs Combustion Analysis for Titanium Alloys
Description: We send out a regular email newsletters and information. Please let us know if you would like us to contact you by email or not, by selecting one of the options below. The ultra-specialist use of ...
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Products for Primary & Secondary Aluminum Protection
Description: Before discussing aluminum protection, it is important to offer an explanation of what is meant by 'primary' and 'secondary' in the production, treatment, and application of the metal. ...
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High Tech Coatings and High Touch Service
Description: From industrial paint for the Pacific Northwest to high temperature paint and high temperature powder coatings for global heat resistant paint customers, FORREST Technical Coatings provides ...
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How do High Temperature Powder Coatings for Exhaust Systems Work?
Description: Powder Coated Tough called on FORREST Technical Coatings Coatings Research Chemist Dr. Sasha Tavenner Kruger, Ph.D. to write a feature article for their July 2020 extreme temperature powder coatings ...
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How Does the Porous Ceramic Vacuum Work?
Description: Ceramic Vacuum Chuck is a kind of uniform solid or vacuum body produced by using nano-powder. A large number of connected or closed ceramic materials are generated in the material through ...
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4 Ways Custom Die-Cutting Adds Value to Acrylic Foam Tapes
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: Acrylic foam tapes are high-performance, durable PSA adhesives, often replacing mechanical fasteners. See how converting these awesome tapes into custom die-cut parts can take them to the next level. ...
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Understanding Adhesive Tapes: A Primer on Peel Adhesion, Tack, & Shear
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: Selecting a suitable pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape for the job starts with the basics. Let's learn more about peel adhesion, tack, and shear and how they can help you pick the right tape. ...
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Ensuring the Optimal Dryness of Plastic Pellets
From: VaisalaDescription: When manufacturing injection molded plastic products, correctly drying the raw material - plastic pellets - is crucial. This is done with the help of warm, dry air. The air used in the drying process ...
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How do Alloy Characteristics Impact Formability and Deep Drawing?
Description: Deep-drawing stainless steel and nickel alloys means balancing many opposing factors. Adjusting hardness values to suit process requirements aids the decision-making process. A print comes into the ...
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Metal Grains: The Hidden King of Metal Manufacturing Operations
Description: At the center of every hated high school science class are the theories and laws surrounding atoms. Atoms make up our world and everything in it. They are the food we eat, the table we eat off, and ...
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How Do Coatings Prevent Corrosion?
Description: We all know unprotected ferrous substrates exposed to moisture and oxygen will eventually oxidize (rust). Manufacturers rely on metal and coatings technology to answer the age old question: how can ...
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The Most Impact Resistant Coatings for ATV Exhaust Systems
Description: All-terrain vehicles are one of the most popular choices for off-road work and play for Americans; the U.S.-based ATV manufacturing industry has enjoyed steady growth over the past decade, and this ...
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What are ESD (ElectroStatic Dissipative) Coatings?
Description: ESD coatings can be found in many forms. These include powder coatings, waterborne, solvent borne, and UV-cure. Ranges of resistance typically fall within 106 to 1011 ohms, and an individual coating ...
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Polyurethanes Contribute to Sustainability
From: FSIDescription: Polyurethanes are instrumental in helping achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of reducing the carbon footprint of infrastructure and transportation while promoting ...
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How to Solve the Problem of Fragile Ceramic Parts?
Description: As we all know, advanced ceramics are special material with a variety of physical properties. They as structural ceramics and functional ceramics apply in machinery, electronics, chemical industry, ...
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Specialty Material Spotlight: Replace Mechanical Fasteners with Acrylic Foam Adhesive Tapes
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: Who needs screws and rivets when thin, flexible, and strong acrylic foam tapes will do? Let's look at some of the nearly limitless applications for these specialty adhesive tapes from 3M and Avery ...
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Innovative Module Features for Advanced Inverter Designs
From: Isabellenhutte USADescription: The most fundamental challenges in connecting power electronics to PCB materials relates to reliability and lifetime expectations. Today the majority of connections regarding power electronic modules ...
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Camera-based Identification Empowers Retail Industry Distribution Centers
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: Warehouses that used to focus on replenishing retail stores with pallet-sized shipments have transformed into fulfillment centers adept at shipping e-commerce orders direct to consumers and store ...
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Harsh Ambient Conditions in the Electronics, Semiconductor, Solar and Battery Industry
From: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Description: Electronics are a part of our daily life. Whether in semiconductor chips in mobile devices, in solar modules for power generation or in batteries for electrical buses and cars - electronics are ...
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Liquid Heat: Thermal Fluid Systems in Gas Processing
Description: A growing number of natural gas processing facilities are utilising thermal fluid heating systems throughout various stages of the gas treatment process. Thermal fluids, also commonly known as heat ...
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How to Control Additive Blooming in Polymer Films
From: Brighton ScienceDescription: We all take the ease of peeling open, and resealing packs of double stuff Oreos for granted. The plastic packaging that maintains the freshness of our favorite snacks and foods has become so ...
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Frequently Asked Questions about Fluoropolymers
Description: Fluoropolymers are highly versatile polymers that are used in a wide range of applications because they provide unique and desirable characteristics. As a leading global supplier of fluoropolymers and ...
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New AFLAS® Fluoroelastomers: Advanced Polymers for Today's Toughest Applications
Description: Fluoroelastomers have the highest heat resistance of all synthetic rubbers, which gives them a distinct advantage in challenging applications. AFLAS® fluoroelastomers are a unique material ...
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PPG CEO Highlights how Paints and Coatings Play a Significant Role.
Description: This editorial was taken from the May 18th edition of Chemical Engineering & News:https://cen.acs.org/materials/coatings/Paint-coatings-industry-plays-role/98/i19 ...
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Which Tooling Option is Best for Rapid Prototyping?
Description: The tooling option you choose affects the project budget, time-to-market, and product quality - so which method is best for your application? ...
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Mitigating Corrosion Under Insulation in Petrochemical Applications
Description: The petrochemical industry is used to adapting to changing markets and conditions, but with the current challenges of oil supply volatility and the COVID-19 epidemic, plants and operations are finding ...
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How to Address COVID-19 with Wet Abrasive Blasting
Description: As more businesses and public spaces are available to reopen and return to regular operations, it is important to make sure the necessary precautions are taken. Remediation for COVID-19 requires more ...
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Taking Control of CUI
Description: Brandon Stambaugh, Owens Corning, USA, looks at the materials and methods for the limitation and risk mitigation of corrosion under insulation. ...
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Case Study: Ninh Binh Relies on FOUNDRY-MASTER Smart for Compositional Control of Structural Steel
Description: Ninh Binh Mechanical and Electrical Company manufactures and supplies specialized steel structures and lifting equipment of up to 100 tons. Established in 2009, the company produces casting products ...
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Determination of Magnesium Alloys with OE750
Description: Magnesium has a much lower density than many other metals. This makes magnesium alloys an attractive alternative to steel or aluminum alloys, especially in transportation industries, to substitute ...
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What is Alumina Ceramic Membrane?
Description: The ceramic membrane is an asymmetric membrane formed by inorganic ceramic materials prepared by a special process. It is divided into two types: tubular ceramic membrane and flat ceramic membrane. ...
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Advantages of Fluorinated Solvents Over Aqueous Cleaning
Description: What are Fluorinated Cleaning Solvents? ...
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New Silica Gels Boost SPF and Reduce Chemical UV Filtering Agents in Cosmetics and Skincare Formulations
Description: In May 2019, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which raised concerns about chemicals, like oxybenzone, avobenzone and ...
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Next Generation Turbine Oils Combat Oxidation, Thermal Degradation and Varnish
From: Phillips 66 LubricantsDescription: Turbines are a critical technology in power generation, pipeline transmission, marine, chemical and other industries with intensive power requirements. ...
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Bring Beauty and Tranquility to a New Corporate Office Space through Wall-mounted Photographic Art.
From: MactacDescription: With the construction of a new corporate office underway, MTM, one of the most experienced and qualified non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) brokers in the U.S., envisioned office walls ...
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Interior Brick Wall Graphic Installation Containing Approximately 12 Different-sized Circle Graphics
From: MactacDescription: Challenge: Keeping original charm and character, transform a large interior brick office wall into a platform to promote The CI Group's core values. Trinity Graphic is a digital print solutions ...
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Key Benefits of UV Acrylic Adhesives
From: MactacDescription: One of the most common questions those in the industrial tape industry ask Mactac's adhesive experts is: "How are UV acrylics different from other acrylics?" And, the truth is, UV acrylics really ...
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Low Surface Energy and Environmentally Friendly Adhesive Tapes for Automotive Interiors
From: MactacDescription: Adhesives have long been a mainstay in automotive assembly and have played a significant role in the laminating and assembling of automotive interiors for both aesthetic and performance reasons. As ...
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Pride Exterior Floor Graphics
From: MactacDescription: To show its support for Toronto Pride, a month-long Pride celebration that is among the largest in the world, longtime Pride sponsor Toronto-Dominion Bank wanted to install a large, circular rainbow ...
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Surface Energy: The Basis of Bonding
From: MactacDescription: When it comes to pressure-sensitive adhesives, there are two driving principles behind adhesion: surface energy and rheology. In this post, we will discuss surface energy, how it influences adhesion ...
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Translating the Benefits of UV Acrylic Adhesives to Applications
From: MactacDescription: In our most recent post, we discussed key benefits of UV acrylic adhesives. Today, we'd like to focus on how these benefits translate into applications. If you recall, one of the most notable benefits ...
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Use Interior Wall and Floor Graphics to Bring the Cleveland International Film Festival's "Welcome" Theme to Life.
From: MactacDescription: For its 43rd festival, the Cleveland International Film Festival, which promotes artistically and culturally significant films, wanted to transform its venue, Tower City Cinemas, into a warm and ...
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Use Interior Window Graphics to Create Show-stopping Naval Air Warfare Logo that Reinforces Brand Identity.
From: MactacDescription: After changing out its logo a few times over the years, the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division wanted to find a way to solidify its brand identity by prominently displaying its new logo for ...
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Use Interior Window Graphics to Enhance School Privacy Yet Maintain an Inviting Environment.
From: MactacDescription: When Austin Achieve Public Schools discovered how easy it was for the public to see into the school through the school's doors and windows, they began considering graphics that could be applied to the ...
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Use Interior Window/Door Graphics to Enhance Privacy while Letting in Natural Light.
From: MactacDescription: When a residential client wanted to turn their living room into a home office, they wanted to enhance the space's privacy while still letting in natural light. One of the ways the client sought to ...
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Use Vehicle Wrap to Beautify and Protect a 1989 Chevrolet Truck.
From: MactacDescription: When Mitchell County High School Career, Technical and Agricultural Education Teachers Beau Sherman, Christopher Graham and Erica Thomas wanted to learn how to design, print and install a vehicle ...
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Wall, Door, Counter, Window and Backlit Graphics; Standing/Easel Displays; Menu Boards
From: MactacDescription: Roti Modern Mediterranean, a Chicago-based restaurant chain serving "Food That Loves You Back™," has experienced considerable success in their mission to introduce consumers to the delicious ...
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How to Use Ceramic Cavity Reflectors for Nd:YAG Lasers?
Description: The ceramic reflectors used in Nd:YAG lasers are with reflection 97% at wavelength 600-1000nm and 95% reflection at wavelength 400-1200nm. Today let's talk about the cautions when you use the ceramic ...
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How Metal Density Factors into Manufacturing
Description: Density is a material characteristic we all know well. It hides itself within materials though, so we end up not thinking about it very often. We even have jokes about it because of this unintentional ...
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Primary Effects of Alloying Elements on Metal Properties
Description: It is very common for alloying elements to be added to certain metals in order to achieve specific characteristics required for an application. The inclusion of particular substances can change many ...
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Special Metals Make Unparalleled Medical Devices Possible
Description: From traditional metals, such as titanium and copper to more modern alloys like Nitinol, the metals industry continues to meet the needs for advancing the medical device industry. Around the world, ...
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The Basics of Stainless Steel Temper Conditions
Description: The word "Temper" gets thrown around a lot in the metals industry. The most common connotation refers to a hardened state of material, or the act of hardening through tempering. If we consider the ...
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Leaded Acrylic: Shatter-Resistant, Versatile Solution to Radiation Shielding
From: MarShieldDescription: MarShield, an industry leader in radiation shielding materials carries a variety of sizes and thickness of leaded acrylic and can fulfill custom orders according to requirements of a client. ...
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Whitepaper: The enhanced oxidative stability of metallocene polyalphaolefin base stocks
Description: Base stocks with improved oxidative stability lead to better energy efficiency, improved oil drain intervals and less oil make up. In this whitepaper ExxonMobil experts test and compare the oxidative ...
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Advantages of Tapes over Mechanical Fasteners
From: Techsil LimitedDescription: Traditionally mechanical fasteners were seen as the strongest and most reliable fixing method, however, double sided structural adhesive tapes can often exceed this strength, provide longer lasting ...
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Design Guidelines
Description: Things to consider when designing a plastic mating component clearance hole. ...
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Installation Methods - Installing Threaded Inserts
Description: Overview of various methods for installing threaded inserts in different types of plastics. ...
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Overcoming the Challenges of Bonding Composite Materials
From: Techsil LimitedDescription: In this white paper, Techsil analyses key adhesives types such as cyanoacrylate, epoxies, polyurethane and UV adhesives and by defining a few key performance or manufacturing requirements can quickly ...
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Performance Advantages of Silicones for Circuit Board Conformal Coating
From: Techsil LimitedDescription: Various conformal coating materials are used to provide protection and improve performance and reliability of PCBs. This white paper, written by Kazuhisa Ono for Momentive Performance Materials Japan ...
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Threaded Insert for Plastics Selection Guide
Description: Summary of Tri-Star's threaded inserts for plastic. ...
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Threaded Inserts Installation Quick Reference Selection Chart
Description: Threaded inserts Installation Quick Reference Selection Chart ...
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Threaded Inserts Troubleshooting Guide
Description: Common problems encountered with threaded inserts and installations, including tips on how to solve them. ...
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Using Electrically Conductive Adhesives Instead of Solder
From: Techsil LimitedDescription: Electrically conductive adhesives play a vital part in the electro- and electronics industries. These adhesives are the perfect choice for attaching and connecting electrical or electronic components. ...
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UV Curing Adhesives Compatible with Medical Sterilisation Processes
From: Techsil LimitedDescription: Adhesive technology can be a cost-effective solution to connect components for single use medical products. When bonding transparent or translucent substrates, using a UV curing acrylate adhesive has ...
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What are Threaded Inserts?
Description: Background information related to threaded inserts for plastics. ...
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Technical Cleanliness
Description: The more compact the parts and fasteners, the more susceptible they are to contamination particles. Even microscopic metal particles down to 500, 200 or even 100 microns in size may cause ...
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Introduction to Plastic Materials
Description: overview of the types of plastics available, benefits of each ...
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Performance Material Spotlight: 3M™ VHB™ LSE Series - An Acrylic Foam Tape for Bonding Low Surface Energy Materials
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: Let's learn more about 3M's VHB™ LSE™ Series acrylic foam tapes and how their very high bond strength tackles even some of the most difficult to bond to substrates like polypropylene and ...
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Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) Failure - A Guide to Prevention
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: Why do pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) tapes fail and can you prevent it from happening? Our helpful guide will show you 5 common adhesive tapes failure modes and how to make sure they don't happen ...
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Coated Industrial Fabrics for Oil & Gas Insulation
Description: The term "industrial fabrics" covers a broad range of products comprised of high-performance raw textiles with a choice of end-use formats. This versatility enables one underlying material to service ...
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Demystifying the Greatest Metal Brazing Process Challenges
From: Brighton ScienceDescription: When thinking about what manufacturing looks like, most people envision sparks flying, metal clanking and fires blazing. This isn't too far off the mark since metals have been used for bonding joints ...
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Outlining Silicone-Coated Rope
Description: One of the primary components manufactured using silicone rubbers is silicone-coated rope, which is designed as a high-temperature resistant sealant for numerous industrial applications. ...
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Selecting the Best Thermal Insulation: 5 Things to Consider
Description: Commercial- and industrial grade thermal insulation covers a wide range of materials and product formats. Most insulation types are primarily designed to inhibit costly or potentially damaging heat ...
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Thermal Insulation: What is it & How is it Used?
Description: Thermal insulation refers to the many ways we attempt to inhibit the transfer of heat from one object to another. These two objects may be the hot and cold faces of processing equipment in industrial ...
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5 Main Points of Secondary Containment Regulations
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: Confused and bewildered about federal secondary containment regulations? Trust us, we know how mind-numbing this stuff can be. So we broke it down for you into the five main things to consider under ...
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Modification of Fluoroelastomer Based on Tetra-Fluoroethylene-Propylene (TFE-P) Copolymer to Improve the Cure Speed, Physical Properties and Mold Release.
Description: In this work, modification of TFE-P copolymer was studied to improve the cure speed and physical property as well as mold release, and a new type of FEPM was developed. This new FEPM has a specific ...
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Piezo Ceramics Enable Precise Liquid Handling for in Vitro Diagnostics
Description: In vitro diagnostics (IVD) opens up numerous possibilities to diagnose and detect diseases and other conditions at an early stage. Tests are performed using samples of blood, saliva, urine or tissue ...