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Materials
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| Ceramic / Glass | The supplier has the capability to convert ceramic or glass products. Ceramics are materials made of nonmetallic minerals, such as clay, that have been permanently hardened by firing at a high temperature. Most ceramics resist heat and chemicals. | ||
| Foam / Porous Materials | The supplier has the capability to convert foam or porous material products. | ||
| Laminate / Composite | The supplier has the capability to convert laminate or composite material products. | ||
| Metal | The supplier has the capability to convert metal products. | ||
| Paper / Paperboard | The supplier has the capability to convert paper or paperboard products. | ||
| Plastic | The supplier has the capability to convert plastics. Plastic includes any of numerous organic, synthetic, or processed materials that are mostly thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers of high molecular weight and that can be made into objects, films, or filaments. | ||
| Rubber / Elastomer | The supplier has the capability to convert rubber or elastomer products. Rubber includes natural compounds such as gum rubber (polyisoprene) and latex and silicones. Silicones are polymers in which organics groups, such as methyl and phenyl groups are bonded to the silicone atoms in chains of inorganic siloxanes (-Si-O-Si-). Their properties include heat, cold and weather resistance, electrical insulation, release, water repellency and defoaming. | ||
| Stone / Masonry | The supplier has the capability to convert stone or masonry products. | ||
| Textile / Fabrics | Textile types include both woven and nonwoven. | ||
| Wood / Natural Fibers | The supplier has the capability to convert wood, wood products or natural fibers. | ||
| Specialty / Other | Other specialty or unlisted materials. | ||
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Capabilities
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| Adhesives / Tape | Adhesives are organic or inorganic chemical compound for joining components. Requires clean surface compatible with the adhesive. | ||
| Building Materials | Building materials include materials used for flooring and roofing. | ||
| Coated Abrasives / Jumbos | Coated abrasives are a flexible-type backing upon which a film of adhesive holds and supports a coating of abrasive grains. The backing may be paper, cloth, vulcanized fiber or a combination of these materials. Various types of resin and hide glues are used as adhesives. The abrasives used are flint, emery, crocus, garnet, aluminum oxide and silicon carbide. | ||
| EMI / RFI Shielding | Shielding, gaskets, enclosures or other products that block out electromagnetic or radio frequency interference. | ||
| Insulation | Insulation types include electrical and thermal. | ||
| Masks / Masking | Masks or masking are opaque materials used to protect selected areas of a printing plate during exposure or the photographic film used to isolate portions of a wafer during a processing step. | ||
| Rope / Cable | Cable and assemblies wound from high strength metal strands for structural, mechanical actuation or motion control uses in OEM Industrial, automotive, building / seismic, marine, aircraft or other applications. Cordage includes all rope, cord, lines, and string. | ||
| Seals / Gasketing | Seals and gaskets are used to prevent fluid or gas leaks by providing a barrier between two mating surfaces. | ||
| Sheet / Film | A sheet is a broad, thin (down to 5/100 of an inch), flat mass of rolled material in widths from 24' to 80'; sold either in cut-to-length pieces or rolled into large, heavy coils. | ||
| Stock Shapes | Common stock shapes include bar, plate, tube, and pipe. | ||
| Wire / Filament | Wire is a ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences. | ||
| Wire Cloth / Screen | Wire cloth is a general term for material woven from metallic wires. Screens consist of a surface with openings of specific sizes. Screens, sieves or similar products are made by perforating a sheet, weaving metal wire or synthetic fibers or electroforms. | ||
| Specialty / Other | Other specialty or unlisted applications. | ||
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| Width Range: | The width range of the material to be converted. | ||
| Search Logic: | User may specify either, both, or neither of the "At Least" and "No More Than" values. Products returned as matches will meet all specified criteria. | ||
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| Thickness Range: | The thickness range of the material to be converted. | ||
| Search Logic: | User may specify either, both, or neither of the "At Least" and "No More Than" values. Products returned as matches will meet all specified criteria. | ||
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| OD Range: | The outer diameter (OD) range of the material to be converted. | ||
| Search Logic: | User may specify either, both, or neither of the "At Least" and "No More Than" values. Products returned as matches will meet all specified criteria. | ||
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Services
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| Assembly | Final materials and components are put together in a finished product. | ||
| Coating | Coating is applying a material, which is converted to a solid protective, or functional adherent film after application as a thin layer. | ||
| Cutting | Cutting methods include waterjet, pressure, hot wire, and laser. | ||
| Die Cutting | Die cutting produces loose pieces, cut to a variety of shapes and sizes using steel rule and rotary dies. Close tolerance is achieved cut after cut as the accuracy is built into the die. | ||
| Edge Conditioning | Edge conditioning includes cambering, sealing, skiving, and trimming. Cambering is an edge curving process. Skiving is filing the edge of a material. Trimming is a process where material is cut down to the desired size or shape. | ||
| Flattening / Straightening | Flattening is a leveling operation of material through a unit housing a series of small diameter rolls. | ||
| Finishing | General finishing capabilities include calendering, polishing or grinding, sizing, and sealing. Calendering is the process of forming thermoplastics sheeting by squeezing heated, viscous material between two or more counter-rotating rolls. Polishing is the smoothing of, metal surfaces or rubbing to a high luster with a fine abrasive. Grinding is a process by which particles are reduced in size, mechanically. Sizing is the surface treatment applied to glass fibers used in reinforced plastics | ||
| Heat Sealing | Heat sealing is the process of joining two or more thermoplastic films or sheets by heating areas in contact with each other to the temperature at which fusion occurs, usually aided by pressure. | ||
| Laminating | Laminating is the joining two or more layers, up to 48" wide, of foams, films, paper or foil, using pressure-sensitive adhesive products | ||
| Packaging | Packaging includes the assembly of finished product into containers. Labeling and printing may also be included. | ||
| Printing | Printing is the transfer of ink onto paper or other materials to reproduce words and images. Methods include flexographic, impact and non-impact. | ||
| Sheeting | Sheeting is the reduction of stock in continuous rolls to individual sheets of required length. | ||
| Slitting | Slitting is rewind or baloney slitting to your specified widths. A variety of materials, both adhesive backed and non-adhesive backed, may be slit to width. | ||
| Spooling | Spooling is a winding process that transfers long lengths of material to a spool. | ||
| Rewinding | Rewinders rewind the roll off the original winder. Because it is difficult to retain perfect consistency of thickness and grain when the sheet is being wound on directly off the machine onto the first winder, rewinding the sheet can help even out stretches and crooked sheets and other imperfections | ||
| Specialty / Other | Other specialty or unlisted processes. | ||
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Location
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| North America | Companies are located in the United States, Canada or Mexico. | ||
| United States Only | Companies are located in the United States. | ||
| Northeast US Only | Companies are located in the Northeast United States, namely Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. | ||
| Southern US Only | Companies are located in the Southern United States, namely Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington D.C., and West Virginia. | ||
| Southwest US Only | Companies are located in the Southwest United States, namely Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. | ||
| Northwest US Only | Companies are located in the Northwest United States, namely Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. | ||
| Midwest US Only | Companies are located in the Midwest United States, namely Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. | ||
| Canada Only | Companies are located in Canada. | ||
| South / Central America Only | Companies have facilities in South American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, or Chile; or in Central American countries such as Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, etc. | ||
| Europe Only | Companies are located in Europe, namely Germany, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom, etc. | ||
| South Asia Only | Companies are located in South Asia, namely India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc. | ||
| Near East Only | Companies are located in the Near East, namely Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc. | ||
| East Asia / Pacific Only | Companies are located in East Asia, namely China, Japan, Taiwan, etc. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted country or region. | ||
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