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Riedon Expands High-Power Wirewound Portfolio with New High-Performance Metal-Clad Braking Resistors

Riedon, a specialist manufacturer of cutting-edge power and precision resistors, today announced an expansion to its extensive line of high-power wirewound resistors, with a new series of rugged metal-clad braking resistors that deliver high levels of performance and a reduction in the need for heatsinking.

From Riedon Inc 24 May 2019

ELIX Polymers Enjoying Success at CHINAPLAS 2019

ELIX Polymers, a leader in specialty ABS-based materials headquartered in Tarragona, Spain, is exhibiting for the first time at CHINAPLAS 2019, as a sister company of Beijing-based Sinochem Plastics.

From ELIX Polymers 24 May 2019

The New SCANIUS-LINE Combines Long Travel with the Accuracy of a Piezo Drive in a Compact Design

The new product development is based on the use of piezoelectric ultrasonic motors. The advantage of these motors is the permanent frictional connection between drive and output.

From piezosystem jena, Inc. 24 May 2019

Kautex Unveils 3rd-Generation Blow Molding Machine with a 6-Layer Extrusion Head

The new 6-layer head can be used to produce multi-layer hollow plastic containers with a volume of between 500 and 1500 ml. These are mainly used for packaging applications in the food sector.

From Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG 24 May 2019

New Tech. to Functionalize 3D-Printable Polymers for Flexible & Transparent Electronics

A research cooperation between the University of Hamburg and DESY has developed a process suitable for 3D printing that can be used to produce transparent and mechanically flexible electronic circuits.

24 May 2019

Researchers Identify a New Method to Speed Up the Sustainable Production of Breakthrough Smart Materials

Scientists have identified a new way to speed up the sustainable development of groundbreaking smart materials—using sound waves to accurately control molecules and atoms.

24 May 2019

Precision Lenses Enable Ground-breaking Synchrotron Measurements

Using ultra smooth transmission optics supplied by Optical Surfaces Ltd, the MAX IV Laboratory has managed to achieve measurement of the smallest ever electron beam emittance on their state-of-the-art 3 GeV synchrotron storage ring.

24 May 2019

Unique Method Uses Rock Salt to Create Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries

Electricity has become a massive necessity in everyday life. However, the unrelenting need for electricity demands for progressively greener and "portable" energy sources.

23 May 2019

New Approach Synthesizes Large-Scale Silicon Wafer Size, Single Crystalline 2D Materials

How is something made into a crystal? It is not really necessary in the microscopic world that a transparent and glittery gemstone would make it.

23 May 2019

SABIC Introduces Recycled PET-Derived Polybutylene Terephthalate Resins

SABIC has introduced its LNP™ ELCRIN™ iQ portfolio of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) compounded resins derived from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) to support the circular economy and help reduce plastic waste.

From SABIC Innovative Plastics 23 May 2019

Sumitomo Chemical Introduces Liquid Crystal Polymers for Electronic Industry

Liquid crystal (or crystalline) polymers (LCPs) are widely used in the electronics industry for a variety of surface-mount technology (SMT), including connectors — for example, small-outline, dual inline memory modules (S/O DIMMs) for laptop computers and flexible printed circuits (FPCs) for smartphones and tablet computers — because these resins provide excellent flow to fill complex geometries in short cycle times, exceptional thermal and chemical resistance, unique mechanical properties, they achieve UL* 94 V-0 flame retardance without needing flame retardant additives, and offal/scrap can be recycled (melt reprocessed).

From Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. 23 May 2019

Teknor Apex Introduces Thermally Stable TPEs for Greater Adhesion

New-generation thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) overmolding compounds from Teknor Apex Company exhibit greater adhesion to a wider range of engineering thermoplastics, mold more easily, and are more economical than comparable compounds previously available from the company.

From Teknor Apex 23 May 2019