1.  Functional Acrylates And Methacrylates To Reduce Styrene Emissions

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of reducing styrene emissions with additive amounts of multifunctional acrylates and methacrylates into a standard unsaturated polyester styrene composite. Considerations for molecular weight and ...

2.  How And Why Certain Inhibitors Improve Resin Storage Stability Better Than Others

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of two structurally different inhibitors [hydroquinone (HQ) and 2,5-di-tertiary-butylhydroquinone (DTBHQ)] on resin storage stability. Statistically designed experimentation was used to examine ...

3.  Improved Two Part Adhesive Technologies To Meet The Increasing Requirements Of Industrial Application

One major objective for the design and construction of future land vehicles including passenger cars as well as trucks and busses is the reduction of the fuel consumption together with a high safety standard. A vehicle weight reduction can be achieve ...

4.  Low Cobalt Initiated Systems For Sodium Hypochlorite Service

Alkaline bleach is commonly used in the pulp and paper industry for the bleaching of wood pulp. While some metal alloys can be used in these environments, their cost often limits their commercial applicability. Lower-cost fiberglass reinforced plasti ...

5.  Low Profile Additive Approach For Producing Conductive SMC

SMC/BMC composite parts are very good electrical insulators. However there is interest in conductive SMC/BMC in applications where electrical conductivity is very desirable, such as static dissipation and electrostatic painting. A new approach is des ...

6.  Low Styrene Next Generation Acrylic Bonding Resins

New low styrene unsaturated polyester resins have been developed for the acrylic bonding marketplace. These polyesters maintain viscosity and thix indexes of typical acrylic bonding resins while offering dramatic reductions in styrene content. Typica ...

7.  A New One-Component, Low Profile, Thickenable Vinyl Ester Resin

One-component, low-shrink, MgO-thickenable vinyl ester (VE) resin for sheet molding compound (SMC) and bulk molding compound (BMC) has been developed. The main subjects of this work are: Development of MgO-thickenable VE resin; Stability of the low-p ...

8.  Multi-Component Peroxides For Improved Cure

To the uninformed or the inexperienced, all room temperature catalysts may seem to be the same, but experience has told us that Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide, MEKP, is not MEKP is not MEKP. Just as there are literally thousands of different combinatio ...

9.  The Practical Use Of Styrene Suppressants And Testing With The CFA’s "Vapor Suppressant Effectiveness Test"

Styrene suppressants are additives which, when properly selected and utilized, can reduce styrene monomer emissions in various thermoset unsaturated polyester resins including: Orthophthalic Resins, Isophthalic Resins, DCPD Type Resins (Pure and Blen ...

10.  The Use Of Polymeric Microspheres In Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics

Polymeric microspheres were developed over 30 years ago, but the FRP industry has only begun to evaluate their use in the past five to ten years. Polymeric microspheres are unique in their compositions when compared to typical fillers or additives. U ...