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Ashland leading IACMI project

24 Jul '17

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Ashland is working with Michelman, Zoltek Corporation, University of Dayton Research Institute, and Michigan State University to develop optimised vinyl ester resin/fibre sizing/carbon fibre combinations that demonstrate quantifiable improvements in the quality of the resin-fibre interface with resins, sizings, and carbon fibres from the participants.

The IACMI project project will design an integrated supply chain that includes a resin supplier, a sizing supplier, and a carbon fibre producer, all with the scale necessary for widespread adoption of this technology in the automotive industry.

Ashland, headquartered in Covington, Kentucky and with operations in Dublin, Ohio is a premier global specialty chemicals company serving customers in a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, including adhesives, architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, food and beverage, personal care and pharmaceutical. Ashland has nearly 7,000 passionate, tenacious solvers – from renowned scientists and research chemists, to talented engineers and plant operators – who thrive on developing practical, innovative and elegant solutions to complex problems for customers in more than 100 countries.

The re-focused Ashland has transformed itself over the past decade from Ashland Oil to Ashland, a specialty chemicals company. The Ashland Composites unit uses applied chemistry and its world-class unsaturated polyester resins and vinyl ester resins to solve the toughest challenges for composite fabricators and their customers. In composites, Ashland’s strengths include resin synthesis, formulation expertise, and outstanding tech service support that spans all the major composite fabrication processes. (SV)

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