Patent approved for long fibre technology

materials

Patent approved

for long fibre technology

EUROPEAN

moulded

0170245

patent Bl

Engineering Verton@ long thermoplastics

EP

covering

LNP

Plastics Inc’s fibre reinforced is now enforce-

parts

produced

from

the pellets. It was granted April last year and following routine patent

opposition now

period

officially

in a the

belongs

able. The patent relates to the pellets of glass fibre reinforced

to the company. LNP has also recently

thermoplastics,

a second lawsuit against Miller Waste Mill Inc, which

of producing

the the

methods

pellets

and

filed

trades

as

Urethane

the

RTP

Co

Winona, continued

Minnesota, for infringement

two

LNP’s

fibre

of

Verton

reinforced

of the of long

thermoplas-

tics patents. LNP Engineering Plastic Inc; tel: +I -61 o-363-4500; 61 O-363-4749.

fax:

+I -

resin

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reinforced

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mechanical

proper-

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or pre-

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carried

the Alberta Research the RSI resin was

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ultimate

tensile

and

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bet-

strength

at break

than

either the polyester and epoxy resins. Similarly, its flexural strength

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to be 102%

than

the other

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resin

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is

poly-

market, and epoxy RSI believes its ure-

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An its

volatile

organic compounds. Thus production facilities would no longer face operating restrictions because environmental

of

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the

Environ-

by

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REINFORCEDplastics

July/August

2000