Polymers in Sport and Leisure

References and Abstracts
Item 290
Kunststoffe Plast Europe
86, No.11, Nov.1996, p.15-6
CREATIVE DESIGN REQUIRED
Creative design solutions are particularly required in the
automotive, transport and sports sectors. They emphasise
the individuality of the customer and so gain market
acceptance. At the same time, they fix the corporate identity
of branded products permanently in the memory. A liquid
resin system based on dicyclopentadiene (DCPD), launched
on the European market at the beginning of the 1990s, offers
interesting and cost-optimised design options, particularly
for large-volume components with long, complicated flow
paths. Details are given.
GOODRICH B.F.,CO.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; EUROPEAN UNION; GERMANY;
USA; WESTERN EUROPE
Accession no.616971
Item 291
Rubber Trends
No.4, 1996, p.31-7
NON-TYRE RUBBER GOODS INDUSTRY IN
INDONESIA
Production of NR in Indonesia increased to almost 1.5m
tons in 1995, making it the world’s second largest
producer, accounting for almost 25% of total world
production in 1995. Investments in the industry are
stimulating further growth in output, which could
approach 2m tons by 2020. Exports continue to account
for more than 90% of output. Indonesia now produces a
range of rubber-based intermediate and consumer goods
for the domestic and export markets. Growth in non-tyre
manufacturing has been led by the sports shoe industry,
dipped latex goods and rubber products such as hoses,
belts, seals and sports equipment.
INDONESIA
Accession no.616003
Item 292
Reinforced Plastics
40, No.12, Dec.1996, p.9
COMPOSITES IMPROVE SNOWBOARDS’
STRENGTH AND CONTROL
Snowboard manufacturers are turning to the same
advanced composite materials, processes and test methods
that are used to fabricate other sports equipment.
Aggression Snowboards makes use of TDR 1100-11
epoxy resin adhesive from Ciba-Geigy. Burton
Snowboards has developed high performance bindings
using DuPont’s Tepex thermoplastic composite material.
Tepex are custom-made sheet materials with glass, Kevlar
or carbon fibres combined with thermoplastic resin such
as polyamide, PETP or PBTP.
CIBA-GEIGY CORP.; AGGRESSION
SNOWBOARDS; DUPONT CO.; BURTON
SNOWBOARDS CORP.
USA
Accession no.615847
Item 293
European Plastics News
23, No.11, Dec.1996, p.19
DRIVING FORCE
Anscombe N
Tamworth Plastics has worked with LNP Engineering
Thermoplastics to develop a golf club shaft produced
using gas-assisted injection moulding. Tests have shown
that the resulting club not only hits golf balls further, but
also straighter than steel and graphite clubs. Tamworth
Plastics uses Cinpres gas-assisted injection moulding
technology to make the shaft core. The material is a carbon
fibre reinforced nylon, with fibres longer than 2mm.
TAMWORTH PLASTICS LTD.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; EUROPEAN UNION; UK;
WESTERN EUROPE
Accession no.614653
Item 294
Plastics World
54, No.11, Nov.1996, p.15-6
APPLAUSE FOR THE PARTS ON PARADE
Schut J H
This article outlines thermoforming’s technical awards
for excellence announced at the Society of Plastics
Engineers Thermoforming Division’s annual technical
conference. These include an ABS enclosure for a lasersurgery
device, a deep-drawn twin-sheet part for an
exercise machine console, control panel covers for an X-
ray table, a two-fold thin-walled package for printed
circuit boards and an instrument panel for a GM truck.
American Catalytic Technologies showed a new fluid/
gas proportional valve for programmable temperature
control of gas catalytic heaters.
USA
Accession no.614625
Item 295
Plastics Formulating & Compounding
2, No.4, July/Aug.1996, p.42-3
AQC AND THE OLYMPICS
This article investigates the use of “Database for Quality”
software by A. Schulman Inc. of the USA, the compounder
that provided the coloured swimming pool lane-markers for
the Atlanta Olympic Games. Schulman has implemented
the automated quality management system software in five
of its eleven plants, to store results of quality tests so that
they are immediately available to everyone at the company.
SCHULMAN A.,INC.
USA
Accession no.614486
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