SAMPE Journal - March/April 2016 - 57

industry news
3M has entered into an agreement to
sell to Innovative Chemical Products
Group (ICP Group), a portfolio company
of Audax Private Equity, the assets of 3M's
Pressurized Polyurethane Foam Adhesives
business (formerly known as Polyfoam),
which is part of 3M's Industrial Adhesives
and Tapes Division. Terms of the transaction
were not disclosed.
3M's Pressurized Polyurethane Foam
Adhesives business is a provider of
pressurized polyurethane foam adhesive
formulations and systems into the
residential roofing, commercial roofing and
insulation and industrial foam segments
in the United States, with annual sales of
approximately $20 million. The product
offering includes a two-component roof
tile adhesive that professional roofers use
to attach concrete or clay roof tile. The
business also offers a polyurethane foam
adhesive used for adhering the fleece back
roofing membrane and insulation board in
low-slope roofing applications.
www.3M.com
Orbital ATK, a global leader in aerospace
and defense technologies, has awarded
Lockheed Martin has awarded a $14 million
contract to Orbital ATK to produce its Guided
Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS)
Alternative Warhead (AW) for the U.S. Army.
In tests, the Orbital ATK warheads with
Lethality Enhanced Ordnance (LEO)
technology achieved the Army's stated
requirements for area effects, but left
behind no unexploded ordnance, a major
accomplishment for this warhead design.
The GMLRS AW Engineering, Manufacturing
and Development team recently completed
all Developmental Test/Operational
Test flight tests, demonstrating the full
functionality of the LEO design and ability
to meet the GMLRS requirements.
www.orbitalatk.com
M / A- C O M Te c h n o l o g y S o l u t i o n s
Holdings, Inc. ("MACOM"), a leading
supplier of high-performance analog RF,
microwave, millimeterwave and photonic
semiconductor products, announces
a teaming agreement that establishes
MACOM as Northrop Grumman
Corporation's exclusive teaming partner
for the development and manufacture
of radar arrays that use MACOM's active
antenna technology to target a wide range of
defense programs and platforms. Northrop
Grumman and MACOM have agreed to
collaborate on systems that offer customers
increased system performance while also
focusing on affordability, and doing so
across a number of domains.
www.macom.com/activeantennas
SAMPE Journal, Volume 52, No. 2, March/April 2016

Sicomin a key supplier in specialist epoxy resins, and one of the lead suppliers to the
Haramain Hi- Speed Railway Stations, has a new range of Fire Retardant resins.
With over 30 years experience in the formulation of high performance epoxy resins
and coatings for the construction
industry, and having supplied 3 out of 4
of the Haramain Railway Stations in KSA,
Sicomin understands the complex nature
of providing fire retardant solutions for
the Middle East market. The company has
developed 'Aerospace standard' systems that
are adaptable to the wide range of factory
processing conditions seen in the region and
that can deliver dimensionally stable parts at very high ambient temperatures. Extensive
testing has been carried out to the ASTM E84 standards most often specified by Middle
East architects and consultants, as well as EN13-501.
SR1125 Infusion - A fire retardant system formulated specifically for infusion. SR1125
is a halogen free system and exhibits no filtration of active fillers by the reinforcement. It
can be easily infused at room temperature and gives exceptional fire retardant properties.
SGi 128 Gel Coat - A new generation epoxy gel coat (certified as ASTM E 84 Class A). SGi
128 can be applied as an in mould coating or post applied to a finished part. This
hardwearing epoxy gel coat has none of the disadvantages of existing moisture sensitive
intumescent coatings and also offers low smoke opacity and toxicity properties.
www.sicomin.com
Harper International, world leader in thermal processing solutions for advanced
materials, was recently awarded a contract for a Pusher furnace line with KEPCO Nuclear
Fuel (KNF). Harper's relationship started with
KNF over nineteen years ago with contracts to
supply five new sintering furnace systems.
Over the past two years, Harper's Applications,
Engineering & Technology Groups have carefully
developed an advanced heating system for KNF's
current project of producing nuclear fuel for
their pressurized heavy water reactors.
With this sixth furnace for KNF and all furnace
iterations, Harper continuously aims to advance equipment performance. In addition to
the advanced heating element that allows for higher temperature operation, an enhanced
furnace shell cooling design has been developed, and both yield longer uniform operational
life cycles. Additionally, advances have been made in exit water cooling design, insulation
designs, which reduce ambient heat release, and energy usage. Harper is compliant
with nuclear specific control systems for mandated upgrades for increased security and
reliability.
www.harperintl.com
Norsk Titanium AS is pleased to announce that a first shipment of Airbus test parts
manufactured by Norsk Titanium's patented Rapid Plasma Deposition™ (RPD™) process has
been received and finish machined by Premium
AEROTEC with excellent results.
The Titanium Ti-6Al-4V sample parts, for which
Premium AEROTEC holds design authority, are
currently undergoing stringent engineering
analysis at the company's testing facilities.
Results will be used for the qualification program
in a joint approach between Norsk Titanium and
Premium AEROTEC as the next step to develop
full industrial technology maturity.
In addition to the Norsk Titanium parts currently in testing, Premium AEROTEC supplies
fuselage shells and sections, wing components, floor structures, the pressure bulkhead,
and the main landing gear attachment for the high-tech Airbus A350 XWB. The company
also supplies the pressure bulkhead and titanium components for the composite Boeing
787 Dreamliner.
www.norsktitanium.com
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http://www.sicomin.com http://www.3M.com http://www.harperintl.com http://www.orbitalatk.com http://www.norsktitanium.com http://www.macom.com/activeantennas

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