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GE ADVANCED MATERIALS' UPGRADED POLYMER COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT LAB HELPS SPEED CUSTOMER INNOVATION PROCESS
13 April 2005 - GE Advanced Materials
| GE Advanced Materials, Quartz has opened the doors to its newly upgraded Polymer Compound Development Lab, located near Cleveland, Ohio. |
GE Advanced Materials, Quartz has opened the doors to its newly upgraded Polymer Compound Development Lab, located near Cleveland, Ohio. GE's investment marks a significant advance in the company's ability to accelerate product development and innovation cycles for customers by offering joint testing capabilities and more thoroughly researched product recommendations. GE's $250,000 (USD) investment represents a major step up in its value-added services for customers, and signifies the company's continuing commitment to helping drive profitable growth for its customers. Improvements to the lab enable customers to collaborate with GE on product development by sharing proof-of-concept and other qualification work with rapid turnaround. In addition, the Polymer Compound Development Lab allows for exploration of next-generation ideas in filler and compound technology. GE equipped its improved facility with the tools to measure thermal, rheological, and physical performance, enabling OEMs to evaluate the impact of filler technologies on their designs. The lab incorporates state-of-the-art analytical tools to help further advances in the use of fillers in a broad range of electronic applications including thermal interface materials and thermoplastic components. GE's Polymer Compound Development Lab came online in January 2005, and now offers customers the ability to apply an array of compounding technologies to a wide range of polymers, including silicones, epoxies, acrylics, and thermoplastic resins. 'The investment that GE Advanced Materials made to upgrade this facility signals the company's strong commitment to supporting rapid product development qualification by customers in the electronic and basic materials industries,' said Greg Strosaker, industry manager, Electronic Materials, GE Advanced Materials, Quartz. 'It showcases our efforts to achieve successful collaboration in a fast-changing environment.' Additional capabilities of GE's Polymer Compound Development Lab include:
* Compound preparation via various mixing, milling, and blending processes;
* Sample preparation via pressing, moulding, stamping, and milling;
* Thermal conductivity measurements using laser flash and transient plane source techniques; and
* Physical measurements of shear, tensile and impact strength, friction performance, viscosity, and other material characteristics. The Polymer Compound Development Lab is located near Cleveland, but will serve customers globally by enabling GE application development engineers throughout the world to access data and tap into the lab's capabilities remotely.
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About: GE Advanced Materials
GE Advanced Materials is a world leader in providing materials solutions through engineering thermoplastics, silicone-based products and technology platforms, and fused quartz and ceramics. Among its businesses are:• Silicones, which includes GE Toshiba Silicones in the Pacific region and GE Bayer Silicones in Europe, offers silanes, specialty silicones, urethane additives, adhesives, sealants, resins, and elastomers for a variety of industries such as personal care, automotive, tire and rubber, construction, healthcare, electronics, household and institutional, agriculture, textiles, appliances, bedding and furnishings, foam control, and consumer (http://www.gesilicones.com/gesilicones/am1/en/home.jsp); • Plastics is a global plastics materials supplier and distributor, which serves customers in a variety of industries including aerospace, appliances, automotive, building and construction, data storage and optical media, medical, electrical and electronics devices, telecommunications, computers and peripheral devices, outdoor vehicles and devices, and packaging (http://www.geplastics.com/); • Quartz produces high purity materials for the semiconductor, fiber optic, lamp making and water purification industries. GE Quartz is a leading supplier of quartz materials to the semiconductor industry (http://www.gequartz.com/en/index.htm); Established in 1968, GE Advanced Materials’ Specialty Film & Sheet business is a leading supplier of high-performance engineering film and sheet products to the United States, Europe, Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and operates a worldwide network of sales, research, manufacturing and technical services facilities. Today, GE Advanced Materials, Specialty Film & Sheet employs about 600 people, and manufactures engineering sheet and film products at 12 facilities in 9 countries worldwide. Recent investments:
• 2003 New Roofing Structures Line in Italy, Europe
• 2003 New Coating Lines in China & Malaysia, Pacific
• 2002 Acquisition of Plastech, China
• 2001 New Film Lines in USA and Europe
• 2001 Acquisition of Carboron, Malaysia
• 2000 Acquisition of Matraplast, Canada
• 2000 Acquisition of Nim Plastics, USA Products:
GE Advanced Materials offers a variety of film materials are to meet different type of applications such as graphic film, coated products, electrical & electronic products, and specialties. The key film materials available today include:
• Lexan* Polycarbonate film
• Ultem* film
• Lexan* SLX film
• Valox* film
• Lexan* Illuminex* film GE Advanced Materials’ sheet product line includes a wide range of structures from solid sheet, multi-wall sheet and corrugated sheet through to coated sheet and laminates and combinations of each of these. The key sheet materials available today include:
• Lexan* Polycarbonate sheet
• Lexan* Solar Control IR sheet
• Margard* coated sheet
• Lexgard* laminated sheet
• Ultem* sheet
• Lexan EXL* sheet GE Advanced Materials, Specialty Film & Sheet, serves customers in a variety of industries including aircraft, appliances, automotive, building and construction, business machines, electrical & lighting, furnishing, greenhouse, industrial roofing, medical, electrical and electronics devices, telecommunications and packaging. In January 2004, in line with GE Corporate’ new brand architecture, GE Advanced Materials has announced the change of GE Structured Products business naming to GE Advanced Materials, Specialty Film & Sheet. |
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