17 Dec 2002
Adhesives enhance new railcar design
French company CFD (Compagnie des Chemins de Fer Départementaux) and its subsidiary companies, have a 120-year history, in designing and building railway rolling stock such as locomotives, carriages, railcars and even rack-railway units.
11 Dec 2002
Another ‘First’ for 3M™ VHB™ Tapes
3M has expanded its range of patented High Bond adhesive tapes with the launch of a new high performance VHB tape specially developed for use with powder coated surfaces. This new tape will permanently bond a variety of substrates and meets the demands of different markets. Examples include bonding glass to metal in the construction of office interiors and electrical cabinets, metal to metal for metal furniture or elevators and plastic to metal for commercial sign assemblies. For the first time in a tape, it provides the durability and strength of mechanical fasteners such as rivets and screws, without damaging painted finishes.
11 Dec 2002
New Ultra-Thin Fasteners for Good Looking Displays
New 3M™ Scotchmate™ Thin Hook and Loop Fasteners are an elegant, lightweight fastening solution, designed for various applications from exhibition assembly, conference promotional panels and point-of-sale displays, to general office and shop use. A simple, but highly effective and reliable, alternative to traditional mechanical systems such as bolts, rivets, snaps and hooks, they ensure that even the most inexperienced will achieve a professional result.
11 Dec 2002
3M Electrically Conductive Adhesive Films - Innovative Solutions for the Electronics Industry
Small and lightweight – that is the trend in the electronics industry. In response to this development, 3M's new electri-cally conductive films provide a useful alternative solution to conventional interconnecting systems like soldering or me-chanical fastening.
11 Dec 2002
Distrupol hits target with power module box moulded from DuPont Crastin resin
Combination of the accurate materials specification and rapid supply service provided by polymer distributor Distrupol with the one-stop-shop, rapid tooling and technical moulding skills of Dudley Associates enabled the power management division of Semelab, the designer and manufacturer of semiconductor components, to receive prototype parts of a power module box in production materials within two weeks of supplying computerised drawings.
6 Dec 2002
Borealis partners Bosch Siemens in landmark dishwasher metal replacement application
Borealis, a leading supplier of polyolefin materials, has worked with leading household appliance OEM Bosch Siemens to develop the first all polypropylene dishwasher tub in Europe. Key to this landmark development is Borealis’ MB350WG PP material, a new grade designed specifically for replacement of the stainless steel traditionally used in the highly corrosive environment typical for this type of application.
6 Dec 2002
Borealis delivers key technical support in new polypropylene-centred dishwasher development
Borealis, a leading supplier of polyolefins, working closely with major white goods manufacturer Bosch Siemens, has developed a polypropylene compound suitable for the replacement of stainless steel in the interior of a dishwasher.
6 Dec 2002
Attachmate myEXTRA! Smart Connectors integrate existing business processes into new enterprise applications
December 2002 -- Attachmate Corporation, 20-year veterans of enterprise presentation and application integration, today announced the release of myEXTRA!™ Smart Connectors, a comprehensive line of data and logic access tools that securely expose legacy information and applications to serve new business initiatives. myEXTRA! Smart Connectors let organizations convert legacy host-based information to XML, Web services, or component technologies, such as EJB™ and COM+, which can be used by multiple applications across the enterprise. "Integration can account for 40% of the costs in large application roll-outs," said Markus Nitschke, Vice President of Marketing for Attachmate. "Smart Connectors reduce the time it takes to generate new applications based on core business data from months/weeks to days/hours."
