CAMX 2019: Exhibit previews
CAMX 2019 is just around the corner, so it’s time to start thinking about what you will encounter on the show floor.
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
Abaris Training Resources Inc. is promoting its latest facility expansion, newly released textbook, and updates to its engineering, manufacturing, repair and inspection courses.
Accudyne Systems
Accudyne Systems is highlighting its custom automation equipment for producing intermediary materials, preforms and finished parts.
Acrolab Ltd.
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.
AGC Chemicals
AGC Chemicals is featuring its modified polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and Fluon+ EA-2000 resins.
Airtech
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.
ATSP Innovations Inc.
ATSP Innovations Inc. is exhibiting its full line of high-temperature resins as well as its Self-Bond adhesive process.
Boston Materials
Boston Materials is introducing its Supercomp z-axis milled carbon fiber reinforcement products at CAMX 2019.
BTG Labs
BTG Labs is featuring its recently launched Surface Analyst XA, an automated solution for evaluating material surfaces for bonding, coating, sealing, painting or printing.
Chameleon Innovations
Chameleon Innovations is featuring its retractable booth designs, adapted for composites air quality and dust control compliance.
Cimbar
Cimbar Performance Minerals is featuring its product portfolio of inorganic minerals and additives, including its most recent addition, alumina trihydrate (ATH).
Coastal Enterprises Co.
Coastal Enterprises Co. is introducing a new 25-lb. density option for its Precision Board high-density urethane tooling board.
Composites One
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
Cygnet Texkimp is highlighting its prepreg machinery and fiber processing technologies for the aerospace, automotive, industrial and energy industries.
Design Concepts
Design Concepts is emphasizing its closed mold applications for both tooling and manufacturing in the entertainment, simulation, aerospace and wind energy markets.
Dexmet
Dexmet is introducing thin-gauge perforated foils and polymers to its product lineup of expanded foils.
Diversified Machine Systems
Diversified Machine Systems is showcasing its 5-axis CNC machining capabilities.
DPSS Lasers
DPSS Lasers Inc. is featuring its Samurai UV Laser, showcasing its higher-power UV laser solutions and fully automated systems.
Ensinger Composites
Ensinger offers engineering capabilities for high-performance thermoplastics and thermoplastic composites.
Eurovac Inc.
Eurovac is highlighting its Eurovac II Pneumatic Portable vacuum system for dust and fines collection.
General Plastics
General Plastics Manufacturing Co. is showcasing its new LAST-A-FOAM FR-4800 tooling board.
Goodwinds Composites
Goodwinds Composites is showcasing its micro-pultruded carbon rods, wrapped carbon tubes, and composites machining capabilities.
IKONICS Advanced Material Solutions
IKONICS AMS is offering a presention on “Machining Methods for Perforating Composites.”
Ingersoll Machine Tools
Ingersoll Machine Tools is highlighting its MasterPrint and Mongoose platforms.
International Thermal Systems
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.
LEWCO
LEWCO is featuring its line of convection oven systems for out-of-autoclave (OOA) composites curing application.
LyondellBasell
LyondellBasell is featuring its styrene-free materials that can be sourced as SMCs, BMCs and engineered structural composites.
Matrix Composites
Matrix Composites is emphasizes its design and manufacture services for aerospace, defense and commercial/general aviation composite components and assemblies.
Mokon
Mokon is exhibiting its Full Range temperature control system, which is a compact, self-supporting combined heating and cooling system.
MSC Software
MSC Software is featuring its 10x Integrated Computational Material Engineering (ICME) Solution.
MultiMechanics
MultiMechanics is showcasing its MultiMech 19.0 composite modeling and simulation software.
RAMPF Group
RAMPF Group Inc. is presenting its full range of model, mold and tool engineering materials for the automotive, marine and aerospace industries.
Roth Composite Machinery
Roth Composite Machinery is emphasizing its filament winding technologies and prepregs.
SGL Carbon
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."
Tantec
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.
TE Wire & Cable
TE Wire & Cable is emphasizing its line of thermocouple wire and cable, from iron and nickel-based alloys, and copper instrument and control cables.
Technical Fibre Products
Technical Fibre Products (TFP) is exhibiting its nonwoven solutions for advanced composites.
Toray Performance Materials
Toray Performance Materials Corp. is featuring its line of high-performance, high-volume, continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (CFRT) composite materials.
Ultran Group
The Ultran Group is highlighting its U710x turnkey non-contact ultrasonic inspection system.
Virtek
Virtek is showcasing its enhanced Virtek Iris 3D vision technology software platform, which includes its latest high-visibility laser projector.
Wabash MPI and Carver Inc.
Wabash and Carver are highlighting composite and advanced materials molding presses for manufacturing and laboratory applications.
Weber Manufacturing Technologies Inc.
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.
Wisconsin Oven Corp.
Wisconsin Oven Corp. is highlighting its electrically heated, gas-fired and indirect gas-fired composite curing batch ovens.
Zünd
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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