Composites Design and Manufacture (BEng) - MATS 324
Suppliers of materials and equipment.
These lists are provided for information only.  The inclusion of any supplier in the list does not imply an endorsement of their products.  It is the responsibility of the user of any information derived from this list to confirm that goods or service are compliant with their specific requirements through negotiation with the individual suppliers.  The list is primarily based on United Kingdom sources and is unlikely to be exhaustive, either in respect of having all possible suppliers within a category or in having a complete range of categories.

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Suppliers of adhesives include:

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Suppliers of cure monitoring equipment

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Suppliers of resins ~ vinyl ester include:

Suppliers of self-reinforced polymers include:

Suppliers of technical textiles or textile consultancy (see also fabric reinforcements)

Suppliers of thermoplastics for liquid moulding processes include:

Suppliers of thermoplastics - polyphenylenesulphide (PPS) include:

Suppliers of tooling materials and mould tool design services include:

Suppliers of vacuum bagging consumables include:

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Suppliers of 3-D metrology equipment include:

Suppliers of bio-based thermosetting resins

Aropol acrylised epoxidised soybean oil catalysed with Trigonox
Specially formulated mix for RTM with 1h gel time.
AropolTM: a high-performance family of products
including Envirez 5000 "corn- and soybean-derived, organic resin developed from renewable resources
with excellent surface quality, and exceptional paint, bonding and physical property performance".
Resin Information

Ashland Speciality Chemicals (contact Dwight Rust)
Ashland FRP Supply Division (Customer Service), 5200 Blazer Pkwy, Dublin, OH 43017
Web: Ashland Incorporated

Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL)
General information on CNSL resin GP-002

M/S. Golden Products
No.69, Mailam Road, Sedarapet, Pondicherry - 605 111, India.
Tel: +91-413-2678184,2678881,2677309
Fax: +91-413-2678174
E-mail: goldenprods@satyam.net.in
Web: M/S Golden Products

CNSL Resin - Formaldehyde Free
CNSL Resin - Formaldehyde Free

The BioComposites Centre,
University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1248 370588
Fax: +44 (0)1248 370594
E-mail: biocomposites@bangor.ac.uk
Web: Centre for Advanced and Renewable Materials (CARM)

EcoComp® UV-L resins

Sustainable Composites Limited
New Portreath Road, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 4QL
T: 01209 843484
Fax: 01209 843488
E-mail: Norman Frost
Web: Sustainable Composites Limited

Epoxidised linseed oil .. and .. polycarboxylic acid anhydrides

Bio-Composites And More GmbH
Marktplatz 12, D-91472 Ipsheim, Germany
T: +49 (0)9846 977 940
F: +49 (0)9846 977 949
E-mail: info@bio-comp-gmbh.com
Contact: Klaus Dippon

Partially norbornylized linseed oil (Dilulin®)
Oils and lubricants

Cargill Industrial Oils & Lubricants (contact Bill Reutz)
Technical Oils Department, PO Box 5694, Minneapolis, MN 55440-5694, United States of America.
Tel: +1 (800) 842-3631
Fax: +1 (612) 742-6722
Web: Cargill Incorporated

Rapeseed-oil derived resins
Advanced Crosslinking Resin - ACR

Advance Enterprises Limited,.
Brunel Court, Enterprise Drive, Four Ashes, Wolverhampton, WV10 7DF, United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)1902 790002
F: +44 (0)1902 798815
Web: Advance Enterprises Limited
Contact: Derek Taylor
UCB Ebecryl acrylised epoxidised soybean oil resin
General information on Ebecryl resins

Union Chemie de Belgique
Allée de la Recherche 60, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
Tel. +32 (2) 559.99.99
Fax. +32 (2) 559.99.00
Web: UCB Surface Specialities
Contact: Pamela Beaumont (UK office Watford)

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Updated by John Summerscales on 08 May 2010 12:11. Terms and conditions. Errors and omissions. Corrections.
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