SAMPE Journal - September/October 2020 - 52

NEWS / INDUSTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Scott Bader Australia Pty Ltd is

The first semi-finished part
made of Ultramid®
Advanced N

pleased to announce it has acquired the
assets of Summit Composites Pty Ltd.
Scott Bader has been working alongside
Summit Composites for over 10
years with Summit distributing their
high-performance resins, gelcoats and
adhesives to the Australian market. With
Scott Bader's objective of establishing
a long-term presence in the Australian
composites market and the founders
desire to retire from the business, the
natural next step was for Scott Bader to
acquire the assets of the company and
continue to build Summit's reputation
for product quality, performance and
reliability.
"We are delighted to be able to
continue to build on the strong

BASF has now developed Ultramid® Advanced N5H UN, a polyphthalamide
(PPA) that can be manufactured into semi-finished parts by extrusion.
The plastics company GEHR, Mannheim, Germany is using the new PPA
to produce extruded stock shapes with a diameter of 50 millimeters.
Ultramid® Advanced N offers excellent mechanics at elevated temperatures
due to its semi-aromatic chemical structure. It shows excellent resistance
to chemicals and hydrolysis, even in aggressive environments, as well as
good sliding friction properties - and all this at temperatures above 100°C.
Due to its low water uptake its mechanical properties remain stable over a
wide temperature range. Even in humid environments, the long-chain highperformance material shows a dimensional stability that belongs to the
highest of all polyamides.
This property profile makes Ultramid® Advanced N the perfect material
for extruding pre-fabricated components and small assemblies but also for
many applications in the automotive industry, in mechanical engineering and
in kitchen appliances. During machining, the behavior of the semi-finished
products lies between a polyamide and a polyoxymethylene copolymer, with
steady and consistent chip formation and removal.
www.ultramid-advanced-n.basf.com.
Cobham, the global market leader in military aircraft oxygen life support systems, announces it has received a $2.65M oxygen concentrator follow-on order from Northrop
Grumman Corporation for the Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, an Airborne Command and Control Aircraft (ACC). The order is the second lot of a multi-year production contract for the delivery of oxygen concentrators for the platform.
With pilot safety as a core business, Cobham continues to invest in developing next
generation technology to advance pilot protection by meeting individual physiological
demands of oxygen. Cobham is the world leader in providing global military oxygen
life support systems with installations on many mission critical aircraft.
www.cobhammissionsystems.com

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market position developed over
many years by Summit Composites.
We are looking forward to serving
our highly valued customers and
cementing a long-term sustainable
presence in the Australian
composites market."
Kevin Matthews, Scott Bader's Group
Chief Executive Officer

www.scottbader.com
Spaceflight Inc., the leading satellite
rideshare and mission management
provider, has announced that it will be
flying its next generation orbital transfer
vehicle, Sherpa-FX, on a fully dedicated
rideshare mission with SpaceX. The
mission, called SXRS-3 by Spaceflight,
is scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 no
earlier than December 2020. Spaceflight
has contracted 16 spacecraft for this mission from organizations including iQPS,
Loft Orbital, HawkEye 360, NASA's Small
Spacecraft Technology program, Astrocast, and the University of South Florida
Institute of Applied Engineering.
In addition to the customer spacecraft, Sherpa-FX will transport multiple
hosted payloads including one for Celestis Inc., as well as several that will demonstrate technologies designed to identify
and track spacecraft once deployed. By
demonstrating these tracking systems

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http://www.scottbader.com http://www.ultramid-advanced-n.basf.com http://www.cobhammissionsystems.com http://www.sampe.org

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