Scott Bader promotes at CAMX and IBEX 2017

Editor's Comment (1)
Editor's Comment (1)

Scott Bader North America is again exhibiting at CAMX (Orlando, Florida, 11-14 September 2017) and IBEX (Tampa, Florida, 19-21 September).

Both are established international annual conference and exhibition events in the US composites industry calendar; CAMX is a major networking and technical forum for composites and advanced materials communities, with IBEX regarded as the North American marine industry event for designers and boat builders.

CAMX 2017

During CAMX, representatives from Scott Bader (booth #N16) will be promoting the full range of high performance resins, gelcoats, bonding pastes and structural adhesives, developed for manufacturing composite tooling and moulded parts for transportation, construction, marine, wind energy, chemical containment and industrial markets. The range is available directly from Scott Bader or via its approved network of regional distributors covering North America.

Special focus during the exhibition will be given to the new range of Crestabond primer-less MMA adhesives, now used for mid-high volume assembly by OEMs and tier 1 and 2 manufacturing companies all over the world for bonding a variety of substrates in structural applications, with little if any need for surface preparation or a primer. All Crestabond products are toughened, two component methacrylate adhesives, developed for bonding unsaturated polyesters, vinyl esters and epoxy glass and carbon fibre FRP composite parts, as well as many other substrates used for fabrication, such as wood, balsa and synthetic foam cores, engineering thermoplastics and metals.

The Crestapol range of high performance urethane acrylate resins will also be a key product focus at CAMX, with particular emphasis on the fire retardant (FR) properties of filled Crestapol resins and Crystic FR gelcoats and intumescent topcoats. Crestapol resins can be processed by open moulding, infusion, RTM and pultrusion, even when heavily ATH filled (up to 200phr). The fire retardant products available, when used in specified FR laminate systems, can meet many of the most stringent fire, smoke and toxicity (FST) standards needed for FRP parts used in buildings, rail, metro and other mass transportation applications, including subterranean environments.

This FST product focus on the booth is linked with a technical paper being given at CAMX by Steven Brown, polymer development manager for Scott Bader titled: A review of recent changes to European Fire, Smoke & Toxic Fume Composites Standards, Successful Case studies and Potential Applications and Crossover into the American Composites Market.

All Crestapol grades are very low viscosity resins, designed to be processed at room temperature and to rapidly cure, with no need for post cure. The inherent toughness of the urethane acrylate chemistry provides Crestapol resins with very high mechanical performance, even at high mineral filler loadings.

For markets, such as automotive, transportation, and aerospace, looking to use a composite material to provide a lightweight design, but also needing high performance mechanical properties, Scott Bader’s Crestapol 1260 infusion resin is a realistic alternative to an epoxy resin, also being compatible with carbon and aramid as well as glass fibre reinforcements. To illustrate the high performance capabilities of Crestapol 1260, visitors to the CAMX booth will be able to see the composite fuselage top section of a newly designed light aircraft made by Jeff Kerlo called X-Project, manufactured with a laminate design comprising of Crystic 15PA gelcoat, Crestapol 1260 infusion resin, with TeXtreme thin ply carbon fibre fabric, PVC foam core and Innegra HMPP high performance fibre reinforcement materials, supplied for this new fuselage development project by contributors DIAB, T.E.A.M. Inc., and Soller Composites.

IBEX 2017

At IBEX 2017, the Scott Bader-ATC booth (# 944) will be showcasing two new Crestomer grades recently added to its ‘new look’ structural adhesives range; both new grades are primarily aimed at structural bonding applications for smaller sized FRP components, where there is also a need to significantly improve shop floor productivity and output.

New to the Scott Bader Crestomer Advantage line are now Crestomer Advantage 10 and Crestomer Advantage 60. Similar to Crestomer Advantage 30, which offers a 30 minute gel time, Crestomer Advantage 10 is much faster at 10 minutes gel time and Crestomer Advantage 60 offers an extended gel time of 60 minutes. The Crestomer Advantage products offer excellent adhesion and gap filling capabilities for high performance needs.

Also new to Scott Bader is Crestomer 1150PA grade which is available in either 55lb pails or 440lb drums for use with dispensing equipment. It also has a 50% shorter gel time of 50 minutes compared with Crestomer 1152PA, a proven marine structural adhesive which has Lloyds, DNV and RINA approvals for FRP bulkhead hull bonding and other marine construction applications. Switching to these new Crestomer grades has particularly benefited mid-volume boat builders and manufacturers of speciality vehicles, as well as companies providing FRP repair services, to increase capacity and debottleneck production lines, as assembled structures can now be moved to the next stage more quickly due to the significantly shorter overall fixture time.

The Scott Bader IBEX booth will also feature its long established Core-Bond two-part adhesive and priming resin system for FRP boatbuilding, along with the marine grade laminating resins, gelcoats, bonding pastes, structural adhesives and composite tooling products. The Core-Bond range, which now has Product Design Assessment (PDA) certification for composite core installation from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for marine and offshore applications, has grade options for either a BPO or MEKP catalyst system; ‘Regular’, ‘Summer’ and ‘Winter’ versions are available, so moulders can work with a consistent, optimized gel-time of around 50-60 minutes all year round.

At both shows, technical and commercial representatives from the Scott Bader North America team will be available to answer questions from booth visitors about any of the high performance products available for advanced composites applications.

www.scottbader.com/na

Company

Scott Bader

Most recent Articles

Exel secures deal with Chinese bus builder

Finnish composite manufacturer Exel Composites has secured a new project with Chinese automotive manufacturer Foton Bus and Coach Company to supply pultruded glass fibre composite profiles.
15 hours ago News

Zünd establishes branch in Australia

Zünd Systemtechnik has announced the establishment of its own branch in Australia. Zund Australia will be based in Melbourne serving existing and new customers from all areas of application in which Zünd is active.
1 day ago News

Login / Sign up