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iNdustry news 2013 marks Airtech Advanced Materials Group 40 anniversary. It will be celebrated all year long at all worldwide locations. To commemorate the organization’s 40 anniversary, Airtech has created a custom logo that will be featured throughout 2013. The anniversary logo prominently features the number 40 to commemorate the 40 years of being in business. The logo’s base color are blue, grey and white. The background globe represents Airtech’s globe logo and worldwide presence. It will be shown on ads, flyers, posters, promotional items, and new global website (www. airtechonline.com) which will launch in the new year to celebrate our accomplishment. The new website will offer a contemporary look, design and enhanced features. It will be the “hub” website that will link to all facilities’ websites. The website will be easy to navigate and has the ability to streamline numerous high quality demonstration videos with a simple click of a button. This will be a great technical tool for all Airtech website visitors. 40 years ago, our founder Mr. William “Bill” Dahlgren, an inspired engineer, started the business with 4 people in San Bernardino, California. Bill is still very much active in the business. The main goal of the business was to create a “one stop shop” and manufacture vacuum bagging and composite tooling materials for the fiberglass and graphite parts industry. With a dream in mind and persistency of hard work, the company grew to over 500 employees, manufacturing in 4 different locations – Huntington Beach, CA / Chino, CA USA (corporate headquarters); Differdange, Luxembourg; Rochdale, England; and Tianjin, China. Airtech is privately owned and operated and dominates the worldwide market. Airtech is ISO 9001: 2008 / AS9100 Rev C. Certified Company. For more information, visit: www.airtechonline.com. th th Awards Committee chair. “There were many excellent candidates from each of the category winners.” Found in the 2013 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia SUV, Celstran LFRT PP GF30 from Ticona formed a structural foundation for the IP, enabling Inteva Products to reduce production costs and use contour stitching on the allolefin, multi-grained full surface with complex geometry. The glass-filled line of Celstran LFRT PP products offers excellent processing properties that ensure uniform glass fiber distribution and a good surface finish. Celstran LFRT offers a superior property profile: mechanical integrity in large/ structural parts, stiff and exceptionally tough, and dimensional stability, fatigue resistance. “This is a great honor for Ticona” said Phil McDivitt, Celanese vice president and general manager - Ticona. “We continue to help drive innovation in the automotive industry with material solutions that deliver high quality, high performance and value.” For more information, visit: www.ticona.com. Toronto-based Integran Technologies Inc. (Integran) has announced further advances in its “structural metal platingon- polymer” technology (Nanovate™ NP) for enhancing fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by enabling the cost-effective manufacture of lightweight transportation parts. Under development for several years, Integran’s nanometal-polymer hybrid core technology is protected by a number of patent filings and now with US 8,268,423 which issued on September 18, 2012 disclosing lightweight metal-coated polymer oil pans with high impact resistance. Integran’s CEO Gino Palumbo stated ”our structural platingon- polymer technology can be used to replace a variety of heavier all-metal components while providing superior wearand impact-resistance in land, sea and air transportation applications. Further benefits can include thermal management and EMI shielding. Product designers are no longer limited to design restrictions imposed by metal forming or machining processes as they can now use the flexibility of injection molding or additive manufacturing to fabricate strong and durable parts.” For more information, visit: crm@integran.com. Harper International, world leader in thermal processing solutions for advanced materials, has been awarded a project by a client for an ultra-high temperature (UHT) carbon fiber furnace rated to 2700°C. Harper’s unique system will be utilized in the production of high modulus carbon fiber, primarily used in applications requiring high rigidity. A furnace that is required to operate at such high temperatures SAMPE Journal, Volume 49, No. 1, January/February 2013 An automotive development team that included Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, was the Grand Award winner at the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE®) 42nd annual 2012 Innovations Award Competition & Gala in Detroit. The advanced instrument panel (IP), molded by Inteva Products LLC of Troy, Mich., and found on several GM platforms, won the Body Interior Category. The IP substructure is injection molded with a Celstran® long fiber reinforced thermoplastic (LFRT) polypropylene (PP) resin from Ticona. “The Grand Award represents the best combination of innovation in design execution, processing and materials, as judged by our SPE Blue Ribbon Judging Panel,” said Jeffrey H. Helms, Ph.D., global automotive manager — Ticona, as well as SPE Automotive Division chair and SPE 2012 Innovation 42 http://www.airtechonline.com http://www.airtechonline.com http://www.ticona.com http://www.airtechonline.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of SAMPE Journal - January/February 2013

SAMPE Journal - January/February 2013
Contents
President's Message
Technical Director's Corner
Materials & Products
Welcome SAMPE’s Newest Members
SAMPE LinkedIn Communities
SAMPE 2013|Long Beach
SAMPE Proceedings
Perspectives
Europe News & Views
SAMPE Journal Editorial Calender
SAMPE Europe’s SEICO 2013, Paris, France
SAMPE Europe’s SETEC 13 Wuppertal, Germany
Corporate Partners
Industry News
The SAMPE Foundation
SAMPE Tech 2012-A Review
SAMPE Tech 2012-Photo Gallery
SAMPE Tech 2013|Wichita, KS Call for Papers
SAMPE China 2012-A Review
SAMPE China-Photo Gallery
Advertiser’s Index
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SAMPE Membership Application
SAMPE Books & CD’s Order Form
Industry Events Calendar
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SAMPE Journal - January/February 2013