Ashland Specialty Chemical offers updated resin selection guide
Dublin, Ohio (USA) -- The Composite polymers Division (CPD) of Ashland Specialty Chemical Company introduced an updated 2000 edition of its HETRON® and AROPOLTM Resin Selection Guide last month -- in both hard-copy and electronic versions -- to help end users select appropriate resins for corrosion-resistant composite applications.
The 59-page publication, available in U.S. and international (metric) versions, contains corrosion-resistance data for more than 1,800 chemical environments, including CPD’s new, high-performance fire-retardant epoxy vinyl ester resin: HETRON® FR998/35 resin. "This is the most comprehensive guide of its type in the corrosion-resistant FRP industry," said L. Dean Doza, CPD’s product manager-specialty resins. "Our guide is bigger, more thorough and more extensive in the number of products and chemical environments it covers than any we’ve seen."
The guide also serves as a resource for hard-to-find technical information and product descriptions. It supports CPD’s philosophy that resin recommendations must be conservative, reliable and firm.
The resin recommendations that appear in the guide are based on a variety of sources, including evaluations of actual field service performance, laboratory research (ASTM C581) and field tests of fiberglass-reinforced laminates, all combined with the knowledge of CPD’s experienced staff.
"This guide is the manifestation of thousands of hours in laboratory corrosion testing and real-life case histories," Doza said. "Much of the information is based on field experience and recommends the right resin for the job -- not a resin for all jobs."
The guide also introduces CPD’s online corrosion resource center, located at www.hetron.com, where an electronic version of the guide can be accessed. Readers also may obtain a free hard copy of the guide by contacting any CPD location.
"Essentially we’ve updated the resin-selection guide area of our website to reflect the content of the new guide," Doza said. "Plus we have our website running off our master corrosion database, so the information on our site is the most current."
The Composite Polymers Division of Ashland Specialty Chemical Company is a leader in providing products, processes and composite technologies to the global marketplace for reinforced-plastic composites.
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