CompositesWorld
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OCTOBER 2015 46 CompositesWorld Autometrix Inc. (Grass Valley, CA, US) will emphasize its entire cutter lineup, including several static cutting tables and a newly released conveyor system called Catalyst. PatternSmith, a full 2D CAD software package, includes machine control features, developed in-house at the Autometrix facility in northern California. The company will demonstrate the cutting of composite materials on the new Catalyst conveyor system in the booth. Software demos will be available as requested on site, as well. www.autometrix.com Axia Materials Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) will introduce its new LiteTex, LitePan and LitePreg products to the US market. This new continuous fber-reinforced thermoplastic composite material was devel- oped by using Axia's own polymer matrix resin and process technology and ofers thermoforming capabilities. Axia can produce 3m-wide continuous rolls of LiteTex, coiled in rolls of 190m or greater length. LiteTex can be produced in a variety of thicknesses, reinforced with carbon fber, aramid fber, glass or other fber according to customer needs. Single-structure LitePan composite sandwich panels are available in sizes up to 3m wide by 12m long in customer-specifed thickness. All of Axia's products are VOC-free and will be distributed by Bercella USA Inc. (Stamford, CT, US) out of its warehouse in Midlothian, TX, US. Target markets include temporary housing, frameless buildings and mobile storage for the construction, mining and oil and gas industries. Bercella, a subsidiary of Bercella SRL Italy, a leader in the feld of composite materials for automotive, aerospace and defense, will show parts such as a race car body, a radar antenna and other solutions. LiteTex and LitePan will be used in the CAMX 2015 Axia display construction to demonstrate its performance and advantages. www.bercellausa.com Becker Pumps Corp. (Cuyahoga Falls, OH, US) is emphasizing its full line of rotary vane pumps, dry rotary screw pumps, central vacuum systems, regenerative blowers and radial blowers. Featured will be the company's VariAir patented intelligent speed technology. www.beckerpumps.com Design Systems (MDS), which includes solutions for micromechanics, microstructural optimization and life prediction of complex materials. The company's technology integrates modeling, simulation, testing, uncertainty quantifca- tion and optimization of composite materials and structures at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Altair also will highlight its Altair Partner Alliance (APA) composites analysis and design tools, ofered by third parties and accessible under the Altair HyperWorks licensing system. These include solutions for structural analysis, micro- mechanics modeling, failure modeling, complex stress analysis, material databases, injection molding analysis and mapping of material data from injection molding simulation of fber-reinforced plastics. www.altair.com Armacell Benelux SA (Thimister-Clermont, Belgium) will showcase its two product lines: The frst, ArmaFORM PET Core, is polyethylene therephthalate-based structural foams used in sandwich constructions for the building and construction, rail and road transportation, marine and wind turbine markets. They ofer excellent fatigue properties (threshold >60%), high mechanical strength, very good tempera- ture stability (with curing temperature up to 180°C), as well as process compatibility with all resins and manufacturing methods. In addition, the foam is thermoformable (3D shape) without property degradation in the case of grid scoring and without adding weight and costs because of corresponding resin intake. New to the ArmaFORM PET range are thin PET sheets made from 100% recycled PET material, called ArmaFORM PET Foil. Available in thicknesses starting at 1 mm, and at densities from 70-300 kg/m 3 , and customized formulations, ArmaFORM PET Foil is designed to provide a sustainable and improved alternative to crosslinked, extruded polyethylene and extruded polypropylene products. Particularly, its improved stifness and compression proper- ties in combination with thermal and chemical stability reportedly diferentiate ArmaFORM PET Foil from other thermoplastic foil products. The closed and fne cells provide a smooth surface structure for better laminating, die cutting and forming. It is temperature-tolerant (-40°C to 180°C) and its heat resistance is said to provide a signifcantly broader thermoforming window than comparable XPE and XPP products, simplifying processing and shaping. www.armacell-core-foams.com SHOW PREVIEW