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Blueshift wins JEC Innovation Award for raw materials

02 Jun '15

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Blueshift International Materials, that makes state-of-the-art lightweight materials, has been named the winner of the JEC Innovation Awards in the Raw Materials category for AeroZero, a lightweight, 100 percent-polymer aerogel that is easily incorporated into composites.

AeroZero’s value derives from its all-polymer construction combined with its porous aerogel internal structure. This unique core material is very lightweight, with a density of 0.15 g/cm3 or less, and prevents heat transfer. Unlike other core materials, it exhibits high strength, compression resistance, toughness, low dielectric constant, tolerances to a wide range of temperature, easy-bonding surfaces, and is a very clean material to handle.

The scalability of Blueshift AeroZero also makes it a unique market offering, which is possible due to several novel manufacturing and processing steps that were developed. The product also meets the needs of a variety of industries, including oil and gas, aerospace and automotive. A low-density yet strong material and a 100 percent-polyimide polymer construction, AeroZero eliminates dusting and does not require dangerous material handling protocols, the company said in a statement.

Garrett Poe, executive vice president, Blueshift International Materials said, “The emphasis on the lightweighting of products has sparked a growing need for composite materials such as AeroZero due to their low density nature and high thermal insulating properties. However, existing aerogels are made from particulate silica, which inhibits their adoption in composite structures. Blueshift AeroZero was designed to be a highly capable core material that is extremely easy to incorporate into composites, meeting the needs of a variety of industries while seamlessly overcoming this significant obstacle organizations face with other aerogel solutions.”

Blueshift International Materials is showing its AeroZero product at JEC Americas in Houston, Texas, from June 2 to 4, 2015.

With a network of 250,000 professionals, JEC is the largest composite industry organization in the world. JEC represents, promotes, and helps develop composite markets by providing global or local networking and information services. (GK)

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