Touchstone Research Laboratory
Provides custom composite tooling solutions from prototype to production tools, utilizing the company's carbon foam technology (CFOAM). Provides a full spectrum of products, from foam blocks, machining and autoclave services to turnkey tools and tooling build support.
Phone:
(304)-547-5800
Fax:
(304)-547-5802
Engineer
Contact:
Bill
Welychko,
(304) 215-9099,
wjw@trl.com
Please visit: Touchstone Research Laboratory
Mailing Address
1142 Middle Creek Rd.
The Millenninum Centre
Tridelphia,
WV
26059
US
Additional Locations:
- Tools
- Cast
- Graphite, cast
- Graphite, monolithic
- Hybrid materials
- Integrally heated
- Prototype
- Composite
- Composite, carbon fiber/epoxy
- Composite, prepreg
- Composite, other
- Mandrels
- Mandrels, other
- Tooling equipment, materials and supplies
- Backup structures
- Master pattern material, other
- Monolithic graphite
- Fatigue-testing equipment
- Flexural testers
- Hardness testers
- Impact-testing equipment
- Modulus testers
- Surface analyzers
- Temperature monitoring equipment
- Thermal analysis instruments
- Thermoplastic materials
- Hand layup
- Thermoset materials
- Hand layup
- Prototyping
- Aerospace, aircraft interior
- Aerospace, fuselage/wing
- Aerospace, radomes
- Armor, ceramic
- Armor, composite
- Automotive, body panels & substructures
- Automotive, interior (seats, IPCs, floor panels, etc.)
- Carbon/carbon composites
- Ceramic matrix composites
- Flywheels, composite
- Laminate panels, with core
- Laminate sheets, solid
- Marine, boat (hulls, decks, bulkheads, etc.)
- Metal matrix composites
- Pressure vessels
- Profiles
- Rods
- Tubes
- Expert witness
- Inspection services
- Materials analysis
- Product design
New technologies and improved methods keep up as tools get bigger and more complex and toolmaking gets ever more challenging.
COMPOSITESWORLD Expo 2008 Showcase
The inaugural COMPOSITESWORLD Expo Conference and Exhibition draws participants from all segmentsof the industry, including many new faces.
SAMPE ’08 technology showcase
Billed as the world’s largest advanced materials trade event, SAMPE’s 2008 Symposium and Exhibition returned to Long Beach.
Carbon/BMI and carbon foam form Invar alternative
For years, Invar steel has been the material of choice for tooling that must endure repeated autoclave cycling in volume part production. Invar's disadvantage is its relatively high density and resulting large mass. As processors move away from hand layup and toward automated fiber and tape placement, there is a
SAMPE 2005 Product Showcase
SAMPE's U.S. Symposium and Exhibition highlights technological innovation and market expansion.
Tooling roundup: New materials, new methods
"Ingenuity" describes new tooling approaches for composites manufacturing.
Post-show review of the 2004 U.S. SAMPE Symposium
Largest-ever Symposium serves up a large helping of news and new technologies from advanced composites suppliers.
