VANTICO SHOWS ITS ADHESIVES, TOOLING AND STRUCTURAL COMPOSITES RANGES AT JEC 2002
28 February 2002 - Huntsman Araldite

Vantico’s well known Araldite® composite bonding range offers high performance
products with the latest epoxy, polyurethane and methacrylate adhesive technology. The range includes adhesives with high strength properties for
bonding CFRP or GRE and metals as well as resilient and flexible adhesives for
bonding thermoplastic composites. From adhesives with long open times for large
applications to fast curing adhesives for early removal of fixtures and rapid throughput, the range includes adhesives which are resistant to high temperatures,
water and chemicals, are impact resistant and thixotropic for gap filling or vertical
applications.

It is this versatility that makes adhesives from the Araldite® composite bonding
range the preferred choice for structural applications in a wide variety of
manufacturing industries from aerospace to land transport and sports and leisure.
Key to the range is Epibond® 1590 A/B. Able to reach the performance levels of
heat-curing structural film adhesives, this two-component epoxy adhesive does not
need frozen storage facilities and an autoclave curing process. Thus Epibond 1590 A/B offers significant potential cost savings. Typical applications would be in aerospace or high peformance racing cars.

Tooling
RenShape Solutions, the new worldwide name for all tooling and modelling
products from Vantico, offers a comprehensive portfolio of synthetic materials
designed to help customers increase their pace to production.

RenShape Solutions provides a complete range of products to transform concepts
into three-dimensional reality. This includes advanced new stereolithography
materials for masters, polyurethanes used to simulate thermoplastics in the
production of prototypes and production parts, tooling boards and mechanically
applied pastes for making models, and specially formulated materials capable of
moulding prepregs and infusion systems. Together with high performance
products for foundry patterns, core boxes and for general pattern making, the
range is all that is required for the tooling workshop.

Structural Composites
Vantico’s product range for the manufacture of structural composites will be on
show. From building blocks to tailor-made formulations, the company’s structural
composites range is unique in offering to the composites industry solutions that
combine excellent processing ability with superior performance.

The comprehensive range of Araldite epoxy resins and Aradur hardeners allows
the selection of the optimum formulation for the manufacture of reinforced plastics
using technologies such as prepregging, wet-lay-up, filament winding, pultrusion,
pressure moulding, resin infusion and resin transfer moulding with all types of
fibres. These systems find broad application in the industrial sector including windcraft turbine blades, automotive interior and exterior parts, printing rolls, highperformance offshore pipes, concrete reinforcements as well as in recreational
goods such as alpine and cross-country skies, tennis rackets, fishing rods etc.

Recently developed high-performance systems for the production of large and/or
complicated parts by RTM will also be presented. These formulations have been
designed further to shorten production cycles in the windmill blade and automotive
manufacturing industries.

The Araldite and Aradur product range, such as EES expandable systems, for use
in combination with natural fibres for automotive interiors, meets customer
requirements for cost, weight and performance.

Composite parts made for new cars using Vantico products and various production
processes will be displayed at the show.

For the aerospace market, Vantico products comprising multifunctional epoxies,
Quatrex® and Tactix® specialty epoxy resins, and Matrimid® and Kerimid®
polyimide systems are proven across the world for delivering outstanding
performance and value to the industry. They feature a combination of mechanical
and thermal performance as well as excellent durability to meet the very
demanding specifications required in the aerospace industry.

Technical representatives will be available on the company’s stand throughout the
show to discuss customer’s individual requirements.

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