RESINS
GP Resins
Product Features & Benefits:
The general purpose polyester resin is a quick curing unsaturated polyester resin based on Orthophthalic raw material for laminating purpose. It is un-accelerated. Suitable for both hand lay up and gun spray up. The resin offers excellent mechanical properties, impact and water resistance. The glassfibre laminate made with this resin has excellent mechanical strength, good rigidity and outstanding durability.
Typical Applications
- Automobile Components
- Flower pot
- Sports Equipments
- Safety Helmet
- Dust Bin
- Water Tank
- Garden Furniture
- Bath Tub
- Container
- Panels
- Machine Cover
- Statues
ISO Resins
Product Features & Benefits:
ISO Resin is a medium viscosity, medium reactive polyester resin based on Isophthalic acid and superior glycols. It exhibits good mechanical and electrical properties together with good chemical resistance compared to general-purpose resins.
ISO rapidly wets the surface of glass fiber in the form of cloth mat or chopped fiber to produce laminates and moldings. Its superior chemicals resistance towards most mineral and organic acids, solvents and oils make an ideal choice for making glass reinforced chemical process equipment, storage tanks, tankers, ducting, hoods etc. for handling chemicals at ambient temperature. Moulds, boats, and bathtubs etc can also be made
Typical Applications:
- Chemical Tanks/Pipelines
- Fume extractor
- Duct
- Hood
- Chemical equipment
- Tanker
- Boat
Vinylester Resins
Product Features & Applications
Vinylester is a specially formulated grade Vinyl ester plain with excellent resistance to a wide range of corrosive chemical environments at room and elevated temperature. It is non promoted, non-thixotropic type and formulated chemical resistant unsaturated polyester resin based on selective epoxy and meth-acrylic acid processed carefully to specific molecular weight, dissolved in Styrene monomer in the presence of specially chosen inhibitor for storage life of over months at room temperature. The VER is resistant for wide range of chemicals/fluid for exposure & application. The resin is especially suitable for filament winding and lay up/spray up, pultrusion pipelines, chemical process equipments, like Reactors, Blowers, fume extraction equipments is resistant for wide range of chemicals/fluid for exposure & application.
Typical Application:
- For fabrication of Bridge Support, ladder etc. exposed to stringent, sewerage & effluents.
Gelcoat
Product Features & Benefits:
These resins are tailor make to meet the diverse needs of GRP/FRP industry and meeting the requirements of customers interest of improved efficiency and superior performance of finished product.
GELCOAT is a thixotropic, quick-curing superior phthalic anhydride and propylene glycol based unsaturated polyester resin for general coating thixotropic applications. It is neither waxed nor pre-accelerated and suitable for both hand lay-up application and gun spray application. However, gun spray- up application is preferable because it can apply the resin evenly and spreading a thin coat without any pinholes.
Gelcoat resin coated surface is glossy after cured. It has good mechanical properties and water resistance and is resistance to mild chemicals and ultra-violet light, thus enhancing the durability of glassfibre reinforced plastics (GRP) products. Besides, the time between gelation and cure is short for espol™ 20.00 gelcoat resin and therefore productivity can be increased.
As a gelcoating agent, gelcoat resin can be applied, using general purpose resin as back up material, to a variety of GRP products. To improve the quality of a GRP product, general purpose laminating resin is recommended as back up material of RTM grade for RTM processing.
gelcoat resin mixed with colorants can be used as translucent coating material.
FIBER GLASS MATS
Chopped Strand Mat (CSM)
Chopped Strand Mat
Glass fiber combines the electrical and mechanical properties of traditional E-glass with the acid corrosion resistance of E-CR glass.
Product Description
CSM mat is made of randomly oriented chopped glass strands bonded together in mat form using an emulsion binder. The emulsion binder uniquely bonds the mat so that it conforms rapidly to highly contoured molds. It is a porous, well bonded mat which maintains its integrity during the impregnation process and provides an uniform wet-through rate. The emulsion binder produces superior handling properties compared to powder bonded mats.Product Application
- CSM mat is a reinforcement for use with unsaturated polyester resins in the hand lay-up process. Ideal for applications such as auto parts, boats, chemical tanks and swimming pools.
- Typical applications are those which require a high glass content and good mechanical properties. CSM is ideal in applications requiring rapid impregnation and excellent wetting. CSM has excellent handling and tailoring properties as well as the ability to conform rapidly to even the most complex molds.
Features And Product Benefits
- Excellent impregnation properties
- Excellent conformability
- Good mechanical properties
- Quick wetting with rapid air release maximizes holding productivity and reduces resin demand, thereby reducing costs
- The ease of handling and ability to conform rapidly to complex molds helps in making high quality parts with ease
- Good bonding with low resin demand provides excellent laminate properties as demonstrated with the Lloyds/dnv certifications
Woven Roving
Product Description
Woven Roving provides an inexpensive means to laminate large, flat areas that call for rapid build-up and high strength reinforcement. It is not suited for applications that require conformability.
Woven roving is often used with chopped strand mat (CSM) to reinforce other materials and make repairs. In this specific case, it should be used with polyester or vinyl ester resin only, as the CSM keeps it from being compatible with epoxy. Otherwise, woven roving is compatible with all of the resins on this site.
Features
- Inexpensive and fast way to laminate large, flat areas.
- Great for repairs or quick build up.
Tips
- Woven roving should be used with mat whenever bonding to plywood or making repairs.
- Will require a finer fabric to block print.
- Fabrics need to be oriented so the fiber yarns run parallel to the expected loads. If extra strength is needed in a different direction, another ply must be added at an angle to the first. The most common angles are +/- 45 degrees.
Surface Tissue
Product Description
Fiberglass Surface tissue mat is mainly used as the surface layers of FRP products. It is characterized by uniform fiber dispersion,smooth surface, soft hand-feeling, low binder content, fast resin impregnation and good mould obedience. This line of product falls into two catalogues: filament winding type CBM series and hand lay-up type SBM series .CBM surfacing mat is most suitable for warping FRP Pipes and vessels because it is capable of significantly improving the performances of surface layer to realize longer lifetime and resistance against corrosion, leakage and compression. SBM surfacing mat is suitable for moulding with sophisticated contours while it is characterized by its good mould obedience and fast resin saturating, it is indispensable materials for high quality moulds and FRP products as it is capable of covering up the texture of under layers to create high gloss surface that give rise to improved strength and corrosion resistance .the surfacing mats in these two categories are also applicable to other FRP moulding process such as press moulding spary-up, centrifugal rotaing moulding.
Features
- Uniform fiber dispersion
- Smooth surface
- Soft hand-feeling
- Low binder content
- Fast resin impregnation
- Good mould obedience
INDUSTRIAL LAMINATING BRUSHES
Wooden Handled
Product Description
- Solvent resistant white bristle laminating brushes are used throughout the GRP industry. The wooden handle makes it less slippery when wearing gloves.
- These brushes are specially engineered for use with polyester, epoxy and vinylester resins. They are also suitable for applying gelcoats and topcoat. They have a wooden handle and can stand for longer time in solvents like acetone.
- On request the brushes are also available as non-stock items in 37 mm and 100 mm width.
ROLLERS
Product Description
- SSA Roller 100mm
- SSA Roller 125mm
- SSA Roller 175mm
- Labswool Roller 100mm
- Rilon Corner Roller
PIGMENT POWDER
Product Description
Property Cosmetic range of artist quality, dry powder pigments used in the repair materials of buildings and structure restoration. Can be used in the colouring of lime mortars, resins, brick and natural stone tinting products, cement, and concrete.
DURATEC PRODUCTS
Product Description
Sealers
A low viscosity, rapid curing, penetrating sealer that anchors lacquers, urethanes, polyesters, vinyl esters and most epoxies to a variety of substrates. Use for surfacing composite plugs and patterns and for sealing woods and veneers, plaster, concrete, and GRP surfaces. Can be applied with a brush, roller, cloth wiper. Sealer is fast curing with surfaces being ready for topcoats in 1 to 2 hours.
Primer
Duratec primer provides rapid coat build-up and a smooth surface with high gloss. Use it with composite plugs and patterns, and to prime a growing number of wood products–including furniture, musical instruments, and architectural applications.
Mold Repair Putty
Duratec Mold Repair Putty allows for a fast repair of molds made with tooling gelcoat. The repair can be sanded and polished to a gloss. Since Mold Repair Putty does not require a topcat you can eliminate extra work time. The result will be a porosity free surface with less time and effort.
MOLD RELEASE WAXES
Maximum Mold Release Wax
Maximum Mold Release Wax is the world’s first non-flammable paste wax designed for Composites/FRP molding. It is a costly blend of imported waxes specially formulated to provide the maximum number of releases per application. Especially useful on plugs, new molds, and tooling.
High Temperature Mold Release Wax
High Temperature Mold Release Wax is a premium mold release formulated from a blend of hydrocarbon and microcrystalline waxes and fortified with PTFE polymer. It may be used with most thermoset resins at ambient or elevated temperature cure. This is especially useful in applications where standard silicone waxes hinder post-finishing operations. High Temperature Mold Release Wax has a creamy texture that makes for ease of application.
Universal Mold Release Wax
Universal Mold Release Wax is an extremely durable, high gloss mold release wax that works equally well on tooling, new molds and cured production molds. Exceptionally easy to apply and wipe of.