INSIDE THIS ISSUE A More Sustainable World Record-Breaking CIPP Around the World with AOC And More

SUSTAINABILITY IS A SHARED JOURNEY AOC is committed to sustainability. Our EcoTek® Green Technologies help customers share our vision of achieving a more sustainable world. EcoTek resins and gel coats process and perform as well as traditional materials and are backed by AOC’s service and technical support team. To put more green into what you make go to

SUSTAINABILITY IS PART OF OUR CULTURE We are proud to be a leader in the composites industry, which provides end-use applications that make the world more sustainable. Composite solutions are making transportation more fuel efficient, generating renewable wind energy, replacing corrosive materials, and providing cleaner air and water. Please send questions and comments to: Leslie A. Beck, Editor [email protected] | 901.854.2318 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Toronto is Green with EcoTek® 2-3 Sustainability is at the core of our culture through green ideas in product technology, manufacturing and corporate...

GREEN TECHNOLOGIES Capital Sewer Services used an EcoTek styrene-free resin for its

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED IN CANADA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP, the City of Toronto has taken its greenness underground by specifying a more Earth-friendly material for storm sewer rehabilitation. Timing and location were critical in this sensitive rehabilitation project. Toronto Water’s Senior Engineer Kamran Sarrami, P. Eng., directed the new cured-in-place (CIPP) installation inside the old corrugated steel pipe. By eliminating the need to excavate, CIPP was the lowest cost, less disruptive, and friendlier to the environment. LEADING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY “We continually seek leading-edge technologies...

FIRE-RETARDANT RESIN SELECTION AOC’s new Fire Retardant Resin Guide makes it easier for composite manufacturers to choose the optimum resin for 18 different fire and smoke standards from around the world. Just Got Easier EASE OF USE THE NEW GUIDE SIMPLIFIES FIRE-RETARDANT RESIN SELECTION INTO TWO BASIC STEPS: Chlorine header AOC’s fire-retardant and smoke-suppressant technologies cover a wide range of cost-performance options, including halogen-free and synergist-free systems. Innovative new technologies are incubating in our laboratories to underscore our commitment to serving this important...

New MoldTru™ LPT-68000 low-profile tooling resin from AOC can reduce the cost and time to make Class A surface composite tools by up to 70%. The new resin is designed to make tools for open molding, resin transfer molding and resin infusion. “Because MoldTru LPT68000 resin’s unique chemistry produces very low exotherm heat, up to five layers of tooling laminate can be built simultaneously without causing surface distortion,” explained AOC Business Manager Fletcher Lindberg. “Making the same mold with conventional tooling resin takes five individual steps, each followed by an overnight cure,”...

A NEW WATER FILTRATION PLANT in The Bronx is the centerpiece of the largest single construction project in the history of New York City. The filtration plant is designed to ensure that water from the Croton System watershed is aesthetically pleasing and meets or exceeds all drinking water quality standards. When completed in 2012, the plant will provide roughly 10 percent of New York City’s 1.4 billion-gallon average daily demand for water. To achieve a design capacity of 320 million gallons (1.2 million cubic meters) per day, each link in the filtration process chain has been engineered for...

CRITICAL PERFORMANCE The inner corrosion barriers of each vessel were made with Vipel F010 bisphenol-A epoxy vinyl ester because of its excellent corrosion resistance and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) compliant properties. The barrier liners were formed using hand lay-up of the resin with veils and fiberglass mats. Structural laminates were manufactured with Vipel K022 bisphenol-A epoxy vinyl ester. The high performance resin meets project specifications for high strength, excellent chemical resistance, and with synergist addition, Class I fire-retardant properties per ASTM E84. “The...

MORE TECHNOLOGY FOR A BETTER WORLD AOC expands the development of EcoTek® Green Technologies that help customers create a more sustainable world. EcoTek products offer one or more of the following features: • Use building blocks derived from biologically renewable materials. • Have recycled material content. • Are 100% FREE of styrene. EcoTek resins and gel coats process and perform as well as conventional petrochemical-derived resins. RECENT PRODUCTS INTRODUCED UNDER THE ECOTEK BANNER: • Styrene-free laminating resin with crosslink densities comparable to Infrared analysis demonstrates that...

The architectural centerpiece inside the new medical building on the Texas A&M University campus is a dramatic spiral staircase made possible by the artistic collaboration of two highly divergent material systems. Two Different Materials One of the materials is the steel bar-reinforced concrete that forms the stairway’s sweeping treads and connecting platform landings. The other material is the fiberreinforced polymer (FRP) composite that MFG Construction Products (MFG-CP) made into forms that gave the concrete its structure and aesthetics. MASTERPIECE MFG-CP’s experience as a premier manufacturer...

RECORD-BREAKING COMPOSITE MADE WITH A record-breaking application of higher strength iPlus® Composite cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) technology significantly reduced the time and cost of expanding San Diego International Airport. Insituform Technologies®, Inc., completed the work using Vipel® resin from AOC. Expansion plans by the San Diego Airport Authority put a new terminal over a 96-inch (2,438-millimeter) diameter concrete sewer pipeline. The pipe was 25 feet (7.6 meters) underground and not designed for the structural loads the new project would add. Because pipe excavation and replacement...