COMPOSITES EUROPE 2012 Blog

Neumayer Station III, shortly Neumayer III, named after the geophysicist Georg von Neumayer, is a German polar research station of the Alfred Wegener Institute in the Antarctic.  It is located on the Atka Bay on the 200-meter-thick Ekström Ice Shelf.

In February 2009, the third generation of the permanently occupied Neumayer research station in the Antarctic inaugurated, with the target, to gather long-term and precise data of climate, geophysics and environment in the Antarctic. The operation is designed for 25-30 years, the entire project will cost 39 million €.Besides the main directions of meteorology, geophysics and atmospheric chemistry that are researched since the 1980s, there have been five years, research on infrasound and since 2005 on marine acoustics. All interior rooms of the station are composed of containers which are conjoined with each other, without adjacent inside walls or with a gangway connecting passage, depending on the room size and which all are adjacent to a central connecting passage. All bottoms, ceilings and walls of these living containers have been bonded with COSMOPUR 890/805 to a high strength connection onto the steel frame. The produced container has to withstand a load of 3.000 kg (certified by the “Germanische Lloyd”), cold resistance up to -60°C with sufficient flexibility and flame retardant properties of the adhesive according to Wheelmark (verification certificate of SEE-BG). COSMOPUR 890 / 805 by Weiss Chemie + Technik fulfils all these conditions.

Weiss Chemie + Technik is a producer of adhesives and special cleaners for the manufacturing of PVC-, aluminium- and wood windows and doors.
They furthermore offer a wide range of products for the fields of industry, automotive, navy and trade. Meet them at COMPOSITES EUROPE in Essen  show (14-16 September 2010) in Hall 10-11/C04.

Webcams at Neumayer Station III: http://www.awi.de/NM_WebCam/

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