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43 CompositesWorld.com CAMX 2017 Choppers, gel coaters and more GS Manufacturing (Costa Mesa, CA, US) is featuring its line of choppers, gel coaters, granite spray systems and more. The company describes itself as "pioneers of high-flow structural adhesive and putty dispensing systems" for the composites industry. Booth E27. www.gsmfg.com Composites repair systems and accessories HEATCON Composite Systems (Seattle, WA, US) is featuring its full line of hot bonders, heat blankets, repair tools and systems, prepregs, resins, honeycomb and bagging materials in Booth G43. New this year is a touchscreen hot bonder. This unit is durable, lightweight and compact, which allows for easy transport. The touch screen technology reportedly gives users the power to easily program and monitor cures, making menu naviga- tion efficient and seamless. Also featured is the company's thermally uniform stretch heat blankets. HEATCON is now using Mosites Rubber Co. Inc. (Ft. Worth, TX, US) material in its stretchable blankets, which is said to provide improved flexibility, durability and conformability during cures over complex contours and shapes. www.heatcon.com | www.mositesrubber.com High-performance RTM system Machinery specialist Hennecke Inc. (Lawrence, PA, US) is emphasizing its role in the production of a composite license plate holder for the KTM 1290 Super Duke R, a 1300-cc, 170-hp, V-engine high-performance motorcycle. Hennecke worked as part of the R.A.C.E. project (Reaction Application for Composite Evolution) to industrialize the new CAVUS-technology from KTM Technologies, which allows the production of hollow composite parts, using an automated high-pressure resin transfer molding (HP-RTM) process. This technology was applied to the license plate holder and helped reduce its weight from 765g to 265g, a weight savings of 60%. Hennecke's STREAMLINE resin metering machine was used in the HP-RTM process and reportedly played a critical role in development of the license plate holder. STREAMLINE includes pressure control, sensors in the mixhead outlet, hydraulically controlled back-pressure function and mold filling monitoring. Booth K56. www.henneckeinc.com Thermoset molding compounds IDI Composites International (Noblesville, IN, US) is showcasing innova- tions from its Structural Thermoset Composites (STC) line of molding compounds. The new materials were developed in IDI's 3i Composites Technology Center and show an even higher specific strength and specific stiffness than materials previously developed in this advanced line of thermoset materials. The Center is IDI's research and development division, created to meet demand from OEMs and molders for stronger, lower density and higher performing materials. Booth R18. www.idicomposites.com