Posts Tagged ‘recombinant’

Cellbond

Cellbond manufactures translucent honeycomb panels comprised of an aluminum honeycomb core sandwiched between toughened glass or polycarbonate skins. The use of a bonded sandwich results in a high strength-to-weight ratio and provides excellent resistance to deflection. The honeycomb core also provides...

March 28th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

Casula

Italian fashion designer Nanni Strada was invited to design a liturgical robe for Koinè, an International exhibition for church furnishings and religious objects held in Verona, Italy, in April 2005. Strada’s Casula became the search for a shape for lyric expression evoking immaterial qualities by...

March 2nd, 2006 | fiber | Read More

CoreTough

CoreTough is a composite panel that gets its strength from a structural honeycomb of various polymers. Manufactured by Transportation Systems Solutions using a proprietary core-forming process, CoreTough is lighter than most other structural panel materials and stronger than many honeycomb composites....

February 2nd, 2006 | plastic | Read More

Polyal

Polyal is produced from manufacturing overruns that were once discarded directly into landfills. The extra polystyrene and aluminum (hence the name Polyal) from the production of yogurt containers are heated and compressed into a solid sheet. As the sheet hardens, the aluminum slivers begin to stratify...

January 18th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

Trespa

Trespa Meteon is an extremely weather resistant panel material, unaffected by sunlight, rain – including “acid rain” – or moisture. The phenolic-based material is also highly impact resistant, and the surface of the panel has a closed structure, which does not attract dirt and makes deliberate...

January 10th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

T-OPAL

Our longing for summer and sunshine has not been answered too often this year. But no sooner do the sun’s rays make their way through the clouds, complaints abound about the heat and dazzling light this generates in our modern glass buildings. Venetian blinds, shutter blinds and curtains are rolled...

January 7th, 2006 | glass | Read More

Glare

After a bomb went off in 1988 on Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers onboard, the Federal Aviation Administration created standards that industry would have to meet if it chooses to deploy luggage containers capable of withstanding such a blast. During the 1990s, the...

January 4th, 2006 | metals | Read More

Film Speaker

Q-TI has produced a speaker which is as thin as paper, transparent as glass, light as vinyl, and can be rolled up like tape. The speaker emits audio in all directions, and can be printed or painted with any image. Film Speaker is made of a piezoelectric coating bonded with PVDF (Poly Vinylidene Fluoride)....

January 3rd, 2006 | plastic | Read More

Veritex

Shape-memory composites are made with resins whose qualities have been altered to give them dynamic properties. Under thermal stimuli, shape-memory polymers exhibit a radical change from a rigid polymer to a very elastic state then back to a rigid state again. Veritex is similar to other high-performance...

December 16th, 2005 | feature, textile | Read More

Glass-Coated Plastic

Plastics come in many forms. They are used to make boats, magnifiers, skis and all manner of household items. Transparent plastic sheet panels would be ideal in the manufacture of windows or headlamps of cars, for example, and tinted plastic foils could more readily be used to protect against the sun...

November 8th, 2005 | glass | Read More