CompositesWorld polled CAMX 2019 exhibitors and asked them to share details about the products, services and technologies that they will feature in their booth. Below is what we received.
CAMX is coming up soon, Sept. 23-36 in Anaheim, Calif. It is North America’s largest composites trade show, and we hope to see you there.
Abaris Training Resources Inc. is promoting its latest facility expansion, newly released textbook, and updates to its engineering, manufacturing, repair and inspection courses.
Acrolab Ltd. is highlighting its Isobar thermal conductors, which are able to transfer large amounts of energy at high speeds in both heating and cooling applications.
Airtech Advanced Materials Group is featuring four of its recently launched products: Corehold P-HA pressure-sensitive tape, Vac Saver HT, Vac Valve 429 SS HTR and Stretch Flow P 2000 Breather.
BTG Labs is featuring its recently launched Surface Analyst XA, an automated solution for evaluating material surfaces for bonding, coating, sealing, painting or printing.
Cimbar Performance Minerals is featuring its product portfolio of inorganic minerals and additives, including its most recent addition, alumina trihydrate (ATH).
Composites One and the Closed Mold Alliance are once again presenting a series of live demos on closed molding and advanced composites manufacturing processes.
Cygnet Texkimp is highlighting its prepreg machinery and fiber processing technologies for the aerospace, automotive, industrial and energy industries.
Design Concepts is emphasizing its closed mold applications for both tooling and manufacturing in the entertainment, simulation, aerospace and wind energy markets.
Engineering Technology Corp. is presenting its standard filament winders and will provide individual demonstrations on the use of it pattern generation software, FiberGrafiX.
Gummiwerk Kraiburg GmbH & Co. KG is introducing KRAIBON, a thin film made of non-cross-linked rubber that hardens within the composite laminate during production process.
International Thermal Systems is featuring its line of out-of-autoclave curing systems that includes a TruTempCC batch oven, integrated multi-port vacuum system and process controller.
Matrix Composites is emphasizes its design and manufacture services for aerospace, defense and commercial/general aviation composite components and assemblies.
Precision Measurements and Instruments Corp. is featuring its thin-heater technology, designed for measurement of hard and porous thermally insulating materials up to 1250°C.
SGL Carbon is shining a light on product solutions made with composite materials and manufacturing technologies for future-oriented industries under the theme "The Weight and Performance Optimizers."
Sicomin Epoxy Systems is featuring its line of advanced epoxy systems and high-performance composite solutions, including MaxCore, and the latest addition to the GreenPoxy range.
Tantec is featuring its full line of plasma treatment systems, with specific emphasis on PlasmaTEC-X, the newest product in the company’s atmospheric plasma treatment line.
Toray Performance Materials Corp. is featuring its line of high-performance, high-volume, continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (CFRT) composite materials.
Weber is featuring a nickel vapor deposition (NVD) out-of-autoclave demonstration for a Class A automotive body panel, demonstrating the tool’s rapid heating and cooling capabilities.
Zünd is emphasizing its cutting and routing tools to process dry or prepreg carbon fiber, fiberglass, thermoplastic organosheets, honeycomb and foam-core materials and more.
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