Capabilities

Total Systems Capabilities

Full service supplier - one stop shopping for composites

  • No other company in the thermoset composite industry has the breadth of technical capability and years of proven experience delivering solutions to customers.
  • Engineering - Part & Tool Design and Turnkey Projects
  • Materials Development & Testing - thousands of formulations with new products developed continually
  • Prototyping - in as little as 14 days with Premix composites
  • Molding
    - Compression
    - Transfer
    - Injection
  • Assembly and Finishing
    - Machining, bonding leak testing
    - Ship direct to your customers

Engineering - On-Site Design and FEA

  • Turnkey conversion of existing designs into Premix molded composites
  • FEMAP and Abaqus - Finite Element Analysis Software
    - Linear, Non-linear, Thermal and Modal Analysis
  • Pro/E and Catia Solid Modeling Software
    - Compatible file types: IGES, STEP, DXF, DWG, PRT, STL
  • Mold Flow Analysis
  • Burn-off Flow Analysis
  • Physical Testing

Tooling Engineering

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  • Complete management of tool design, source and build
  • Tool room on site
  • Worldwide sources for molds and equipment
  • Prototype/bridge tooling options for 10 to 1000 pieces

Testing & Laboratory Services

  • Mechanical
    - Instron 3366, 10kN load cell and frame - tensile, flexural and compressive properties
    - Environmental Chamber – testing at elevated temperatures
    - TMI Izod Tester - impact resistance
  • Physical
    - Signature Controls DEA - gel/cure rate profile
    - Panel to mold shrink measurement
    - Specific gravity measurement
    - Spiral flow molding
    - Greytag Macbeth Color Eye XTH - LAB color measurement
  • Thermal
    - Perkin Elmer DSC 7
  • Electrical
    - SRM-110 surface resistance meter
    - Beckman 120V arc resistance meter
    - Through plane conductivity
  • Flammability
    - UL94 testing for flammability of plastics
  • Characterization
    - Nicolet Magna 750 FT-IR spectrometer
    - Olympus SZ10/BX60M zoom stereo microscope with video documentation
    - Reaktometer - In mold temperature, pressure, dielectric and flow profiling
  • Rheology
    - Rheometrics DMTA IV - creep prediction, Tg, and CLTE
    - Brookfield RVF and HBT viscometers
  • Conditioning
    - QUV accelerated weathering
    - Burn off and heat aging ovens
  • Sample preparation
    - Injection flat panel molding
    - Injection mechanical specimen molding
    - Compression flat panel molding
    - Compression mechanical specimen molding
    - CNC specimen cutting

Program Management

  • Stage Gate Project Management System
  • APQP Process
    - PFMEA, DFMEA
    - Control Plans/PPAP
    - Open Issue/Dashboard sheet
    - Gantt - Timeline charts: 8D corrective action, Cause & Effect Diagram