COMPOSITES EUROPE 2012 Blog

Visit the Huntsman Advanced Materials stand (Hall C2, Stand B04) at COMPOSITES EUROPE in Stuttgart from 27th – 29th October 2009 and see the latest advances in new composite materials and energy saving technologies.

New OLED markets for Araldite® Highly Flexible Composite, HFC
For the first time you can see how Huntsman is helping the Organic Light Emitting Devices, OLEDs, market to broaden its market. Huntsman has in conjunction with the Philips Holst Centre won a major award for its Araldite® HFC for a new multi-layered composite foil. This composite foil combines OLED technology with the award winning Araldite® HFC to open up an enormous range of new generation lighting and signage design opportunities.

Designers have the scope to create lighting and signage in shapes and forms that will not shatter or splinter on impact on a scale that has never before been possible. Plus the composite foil has the potential to be 70% more energy efficient and is more environmentally friendly than other light sources.

Corporate logos, brand names or warning signs can be creatively displayed on the spoilers of sports cars or motorbikes. Interior designers can add light sources on to flat carbon surfaces on furniture, aerospace and car interiors. And for the fashion conscious designer, he can add style and safety features to items such as skis, snowboards and yachts. The list is endless.

Ground breaking Fuel Cell Resins
Two new awarding fuel cell resins for lighter weight ground breaking graphite composite fuel cell bipolar plates offer significant benefits. The resin for cars is based on benzoxazine and the resin for back-up power and stationary power applications is based on bismaleimide. Every major manufacturer in the world is considering how best to utilise fuel cell technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the reliance on fossils fuels and these new resins represent the way forward.

Materials to meet new solar technology demands
Huntsman is exhibiting a range of materials suitable for the solar energy market. This is a market with unique requirements where products may have to withstand high temperatures. Materials on display include Araldite® 2015 which is used in heat removal devices which improve solar panels efficiency.

Nanotechnology improves performance
Araldite® EP1000, the patented new concept based on nanotechnology which significantly improves fracture resistance without affecting other properties. It is ideal for the aerospace sector. Also there is Araldite® nanotech toughened RTM – the extremely small size of the nanostructures coupled with their extremely high surface-to-volume ratios leads to improved performance factors such as strength, stiffness and wear resistance. It has been used for high impact sports sectors such as at ice hockey world championships.

Huntsman working with Busch S.A. has developed a world beating “one piece” hockey stick which was used by the Swiss team at the recent world Ice Hockey Championships and is now being considered by other world ice hockey teams such as Russia, Austria and France.

New building blocks added to the Araldite® Epoxy Resin Range
The first building block is Araldite® MY 816. This bi-functional resin based on a Naphthalene backbone presents good balance between temperature resistance and toughness together with lower water uptake and good flame resistance. The second new Araldite® building block is Araldite ® MY0610 which is a high purity version of the now famous meta-aminophenol based, trifunctional epoxy resin Araldite ® MY0600.

Araldite ® MY0610 provides the same features as Araldite® MY0600. It increases modulus, increases toughness compared to other multifunctional resins, whilst it also shows improved stability on storage and much lower viscosity. Those two new building blocks are added to a range of specialty epoxy resins suited for making high performance formulations intended for composites parts manufacturing in high end applications such as Aerospace and Formula One Racing.

Latest additions to the Araldite 2000+ range
Also on show are the recent additions to the Araldite® 2000 Plus range which include the latest polyurethane adhesives with their ability to bond plastics and a new methacrylate adhesive which because it requires minimal surface treatment is ideal in dynamic environments such as boats and for road and rail transportation.

Be Sociable, Share!

•