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Cyclics and Emerson & Cuming Composite Materials, Inc.
Announce Superior Thermoforming Material

Manufacturing News Center - Superior Plug Assist Tooling Material To Be Available Early Next Year

October 25, 2004-Jobwerx News-via Düsseldorf, Germany-Cyclics Corporation will supply it's new CBT® 200 resin to Emerson & Cuming Composite Materials, Inc. (ECCM) to create a superior plug-assist thermoforming material to be available in early 2005.

ECCM, established in 1958, and a member of the CRP group of companies, is the leading manufacturer of syntactic foam worldwide. Their unique Eccosphere® hollow glass microspheres are the backbone of their syntactic foams and are a key ingredient in the Eccolite® Ultra Syntactic Foam.

ECCM, one of the leading plug-assist suppliers, introduced syntactic thermoset foam materials in 1986. "Eccolite Ultra will run at higher temperatures than conventional syntactic foams, so processors can run their machines faster and cut cycle times," said Jim Teague, VP of Sales & Marketing for ECCM. "Compared to the polyamide materials on the market today, the CBT resin-based plugs can be shined, making for excellent transparent packaging."

The new product, known as Eccolite® Ultra Syntactic Foam, has several advantages in both the production of thermoforming tools, part quality and manufacturing efficiency to moulders. The material will be available from ECCM in rods, blocks and sheets to be machined into thermoforming tools used in plastic vacuum forming operations. Eccolite Ultra is dust free during machining which eliminates airborne health hazards to toolmakers and does not get into machine tool bearings. The new product can also produce superior surface finishes enabling improved part quality, especially on clear plastics. Additionally, Eccolite Ultra can withstand higher temperatures than conventional syntactic foams allowing moulders to run tools hotter and faster than before.

Cyclics Corporation, headquartered in Schenectady, New York, U.S.A. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Cyclics Europe GmbH based in Schwarzheide, Germany, manufacture innovative plastics that offer breakthroughs in processing, making new products possible and changing the economics of existing ones. The water-like processing viscosities of Cyclics' engineering thermoplastic products offer improvements in performance and productivity for structural composites, compounding, casting, nanocomposites, coatings and rotational moulding. Cyclics has alliances with Dow Automotive, BASF, Alcan Composites, The P Group, Ahlstrom and Davy Process Technology.

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