6 Jun 2007
QUADRANT EPP’S BOROTRON® ENHANCED HDPE PROVIDES RADIATION SHIELDING
Tielt, Belgium – June, 2007 – Borotron® from Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP) is a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) formulation enhanced with 5% elemental boron that provides extra shielding against electromagnetic radiation. The combination of boron within a matrix of HDPE, a naturally hydrogen rich material, results in an ideal product in nuclear shielding applications. Both boron and hydrogen are very good at absorbing free neutrons.
6 Jun 2007
QUADRANT EPP INTRODUCES NEXT GENERATION MATERIALS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING
Tielt, Belgium – June, 2007 – Longer production life of critical components in semiconductor wafer chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes is possible with new materials available from Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP). Semitron® CMP LL5 and Semitron® CMP XL20 offer service life from five to 20 times greater than materials currently used to make retaining rings, which hold the wafer in position as it is being planarised.
6 Jun 2007
QUADRANT EPP FOCUS ON PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT YIELDS TWO NEW MATERIALS IN ITS PIPELINE FOR 2008
Tielt, Belgium – August, 2007 – In addition to several products which Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP) will introduce at K 2007, the company also has developed a pipeline of new products targeted for commercialization in 2008. Two major projects that are in market testing are polyimide (PI) shapes and parts and PVDF film as a facing for outdoor architectural fabrics.
6 Jun 2007
HIGH-PRECISION TPE SPRINGS TAKE ON THERMOSET ELASTOMERS IN RAILWAY BUFFERS
Tielt, Belgium – June, 2007 – Thermoplastic elastomers are replacing conventional rubbers and steel in high performance springs used in railway rolling-stock buffers, draw gears and draft gears. German company DUREL is in the vanguard of this trend, manufacturing spring pads from rods and tubes supplied by Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP) in Arnitel® thermoplastic polyether elastomer (TPEE) from DSM Engineering Plastics.
6 Jun 2007
NEW THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE FROM QUADRANT EPP PROMISES ENGINEERING PLASTIC ADVANTAGES PLUS HIGHER LEVELS OF STRUCTURAL STRENGTH TO REPLACE METALS
Lenzburg, Switzerland – June, 2007 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP) has developed new technology for incorporating glass fibre reinforcement within polymer matrices to greatly enhance structural strength of a variety of engineering plastics in sheet and thick plate form. Because of the rigidity improvement possible, the new thermoplastic composites (TPC) will open the advantages of engineering plastics over metals and thermosets to applications where structural strength was a limitation in the past, or where the thickness of material required was cost-prohibitive.
6 Jun 2007
QUADRANT EPP AIMS HIGH WITH NEW LOW-FRICTION, LOW-WEAR STOCK SHAPES FOR SEALS AND BEARINGS
Tielt, Belgium – June, 2007 – Stock shapes manufacturer Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (Quadrant EPP) has extended its Fluorosint® range of proprietary high performance PTFE-based shapes for machining with a grade that can operate in extreme environments at temperatures anywhere from -240°C to +260°C.
6 Jun 2007
COMPOSITE SANDWICH PANELS PROVE IDEAL FOR BUILDING FORMWORK SYSTEMS
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – June, 2007 – Replacing plywood with high-performance composites may appear at first sight to be a prime case of over-engineering. But there is good reason to believe that a new formwork product from German company Hünnebeck, one of the world's top suppliers of formwork and scaffolding, will signal a paradigm shift in the industry.
6 Jun 2007
INJECTION MOULDED PASSENGER AIRBAG HOUSING FROM QUADRANT CMS SAVES WEIGHT AND COST
TIELT, BELGIUM – June, 2007 – Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (Quadrant CMS) of Tielt, Belgium, working in close co-operation with Tier-1 automotive supplier Autoliv, has developed a new, polyamide passenger airbag housing for use in vehicles based on the Volkswagen Golf platform. The housing, moulded from impact-modified polyamide 6 with 40 percent glass-fibre reinforcement, is just under half the weight of the original metal counterpart and provides considerable cost-of-manufacture savings. The part is being installed in vehicles such as the VW Golf, Audi A3, Seat Leon and Skoda Fabia since early 2007.
