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Handgun holsters: Thermoplastic composites target extreme performance
Safariland LLC (Ontario, Calif.), produces gun holsters, previously made of leather, from a proprietary composite that relies on a custom-formulated thermoplastic sheet product from Boltaron Performance Products LLC (Newcomerstown, Ohio)
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Formulation flexibility: Direct-SMC
Consortium applies inline-compounding technology to reinvent sheet molding compound.
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Spare wheel well: Functional integration
Gas-assist injection molding enables one-piece, one-shot thermoplastic composite/metal hybrid.
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Thermoplastic Wind Blades: To be or not?
Will future wind blades incorporate thermoplastic composites? It depends on whom you ask.
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Styrene: Issues and implications
The facts (such as they are) behind the furor surrounding this vital crosslinking chemical’s listing in the 12th RoC.
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The styrene puzzle
CT editor-in-chief outlines two major challenges posed by the recent listing of styrene in the U.S. National Toxicology Program's 12th Report on Carcinogens.
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Automotive evolution or real revolution?
HPC's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks, Are efforts by BMW and GM to put carbon composites in cars a harbinger of things to come, as we hope, or flashes in the pan?
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Reinforced engineered polymer selected for cargo door fastener
On a major new commercial aircraft program, self-fixturing nut-plates provided by Click Bond (Carson City, Nev.) eliminate the need for special tools, clamps and drills, expediting the process of installing attachment bracket hardware.
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A hidden revolution: composite rebar gains strength
Fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) replacing coated steel in more reinforced-concrete applications.
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Automotive composites: Structural underbody
For Detroit’s Big Three, a joint precompetitive composite design, development, fabrication and testing program nears successful completion.
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