What's new for 2011?

Monday, January 31, 2011 at 2:51PM
Graham Pledger

 

Since GNP Technology was established last year there were two key priorities set, firstly to give a prompt technical support service by long served and trained experienced staff and secondly to develop niche products which we feel are innovative and will be of benefit to our customers and the composites market as a whole. With this vision in mind we set out to improve our service and portfolio.

 

Technical Support

Due to customer demand we now offer an out of office telephone service for those clients who like the peace of mind and convenience of having technical support available during and outside normal office hours.

 

New Products Summary

ESK LV1 (Multifunctional) and ESK LV2 are very low viscosity epoxy resins for cold or warm curing systems

• Exceptionally low viscosity compared to conventional epoxy resins ~ 270mPas.
• Improved infusion and wetting of speciality fibres in composite materials
• Improved curing with amine hardeners at moderate temperatures without use of accelerators
• Hardener ESK LV-H is a very low viscosity amine hardener for combination with ESK LV1
• and ESK LV2

 

ESK B16 is a liquid accelerator for anhydride cured epoxy resins.

• Much reduced shrinkage during cure compared to imidazoles or Mannich base accelerators.
• Can be used as sole accelerator or in combination with traditional accelerators.

 

ESK LC1 and ESK LC2 are liquid hardeners for use in conjunction with epoxy resins: 

Offered for the manufacture of B-staged pre-impregnated speciality clothes and fibres. (B-stage is defined as partial cure to a high viscosity or solid state which can be fused and cured later as required).

• Liquid curatives which make for simple processing.
• Can be combined with conventional liquid bisphenol A epoxy resins.
• Stable B-Stage in solid or semi-solid forms which can be melted and cured as required.
• Avoidance of handling solid hardener and enabling minimal heat to be used during processing. Need for heating will be dependent on the type of resin used in the formulation but with BLR in theory it is not necessary to heat above 20-25 Celsius at the mixing or impregnation stages.
• Hot melt type system,no solvent required.
• B-Stage can be achieved at ambient temperature or elevated temperatures on the prepregger.

If any of these new products or services interest you, please do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

 



Article originally appeared on GNP Technology (http://www.gnp-technology.com/).