Huntsman Advanced Materials
www.huntsman.com/advanced_materials

Innovative Rapid Production Materials and Technologies for the Automotive Industry

Huntsman Advanced Materials is one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced high performance materials and technologies for rapid design, prototyping and manufacturing. With recognised expertise in research, development and production processes, Huntsman Advanced Materials offer a unique and wide range of innovative solutions for end users and OEMs combined with strong technical support and customer services in composite resins, adhesives and tooling materials.

Thousands of companies around the world use Huntsman materials and technologies for all types of rapid manufacturing procedures from concept design using stereolithography through design prototyping to mass volume production of finished parts.

The company’s range of Araldite® composite resins and industrial adhesives and RenShape® rapid prototyping and production materials are used in most of the world’s manufacturing industries including automotive, aerospace, construction, electronics, marine, medical, power transmission and distribution, sports equipment and wind power generation.

Through an ongoing Research & Development Programme, Huntsman Advanced Materials continues to bring ever more efficient rapid tooling and production solutions to the world’s manufacturing industries. The impact of this new technology has delivered not only critical production time and cost benefits but has also had important strategic implications for global industries, opening up new markets and supporting their growth within these.

This intense programme of customer-centric product and technology development has seen the use of epoxy composites, industrial adhesives and synthetic tooling materials move into completely new applications.

Huntsman Advanced Materials is one of the world’s leading suppliers in epoxy and other thermoset specialties for composites, rapid tooling solutions and industrial adhesives and offers a comprehensive range of rapid tooling materials and technologies including:

Some of the most radical developments in recent years have been in rapid prototyping and production technologies such as the first ABS-like stereolithography materials and more recently, the latest generation of SL photopolymers with improved overall functionality including high temperature, high impact resistant SL resins ideal for automotive applications such as crash testing. Also, new seamless modelling pastes with programmable paste rheology and high temperature resistance making them particularly suitable for automated or manual production of automotive models.

Direct manufacturing processes such as infusion and Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) are now increasingly used across a range of industries, but particularly the automotive industry. Automotive manufacturers are continually faced with the need to reduce production times so manufacturing processes using epoxy composites, originally perfected for the production of high-tech Formula 1 cars, have been adapted to meet the demands of mass volume manufacturing. Huntsman Advanced Materials has pioneered the development of epoxy formulations adapted to suit the cycle times required for serial car production using RTM.

Rapid tooling technology and prototyping materials will continue to see ground breaking innovations, driven by the needs of the world’s manufacturing industries. Huntsman Advanced Materials has an ongoing commitment to delivering true innovation in this field and to providing real product and service benefits to their customers around the world.

For further information go to: www.huntsman.com/advanced_materials.

Huntsman Advanced Materials (Switzerland) GmbH
Klybeckstrasse 200
CH 4056 Basel
Switzerland

Tel : + 41 61 966 33 33
Fax . + 41 61 966 33 34
Technical Inquiries: + 41 61 966 38 75
email: advanced_materials@huntsman.com
www.huntsman.com/advanced_materials

 

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