Zyvex
Performance Materials and Technology Marketing Announces Distribution Agreement
to sell Carbon Nanotube Strengthened Epoxies and Prepregs.
Columbus,
OH, April 13, 2009 -- Zyvex Performance Materials (ZPM), a recognized worldwide
leader in nanomaterials applications, announced a distribution agreement with Technology
Marketing Inc. (TMI), a veteran Salt Lake City based distributor of composites
and composite-related products for more than thirty years. TMI will be
distributing ZPM’s Epovex® and Arovex® products.
“We are ecstatic to be partnering
with TMI, as our products will have excellent representation and distribution
throughout the Western US and beyond.” says Lance
Criscuolo, President of Zyvex Performance Materials. “With our products and TMI’s
distribution capabilities, we have great potential. TMI will be able to offer their
customers the most advanced and highest performing carbon nanotube resin systems
and prepregs available today”.
“We are delighted to be offering ZPM’s products.” comments Matt
Herbert of TMI. “These new products are the future in the world of composites,
and they allow us to enlarge our product offering with the most advanced
materials available. This is the critical component needed for our customers to
achieve breakthrough results that will allow them to make stronger, lighter,
and stiffer products”.
Epovex® is a new line of
liquid epoxy resins from ZPM. Epovex®
resins are high performance, carbon nanotube strengthened epoxies ideal for
numerous composites and adhesives applications. ZPM’s patented and proven
nanotube dispersion technology, gives Epovex® superior structural performance. Epovex® processes similarly to unfilled epoxy resins and can be
cured with a wide range of curing agents. Epovex® is available in both bisphenol-A and bisphenol-F types.
Epovex® epoxy resins are recommended
for use in composite manufacturing processes such as filament winding,
pultrusion, and hand lay-up. Epovex® epoxy resins can be used with
most types of
reinforcing fibers and fabrics such as carbon, glass, and aramid. It can also
be used in adhesive and coatings applications with the proper choice of curing
agent.
Arovex® is a high performance
prepreg using Epovex® resin. The
use of Epovex®, optimized for use
in a prepreg, offers dramatically superior mechanical properties over
conventional prepregs without CNTs. Arovex® is available in standard, intermediate, and high modulus
carbon fibers, glass, and as a unidirectional, woven, or knitted material.
Large custom material orders for Arovex® are also available.
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Zyvex
Performance Materials Inc. was spun out of Zyvex Corporation in April
2007. ZPM is focused on developing
nanotechnology to improve the properties of composite materials. The company’s
patented technology allows composites to take advantage of the superior
physical and chemical properties of carbon nanotubes by enabling the even
dispersion of carbon nanotubes in composites mixtures. ZPM was the first
company to provide carbon nanotube enhanced products to the marketplace.
Technology Marketing, Inc. (TMI) is a distribution,
sales and marketing, and manufacturing company. Headquartered in Salt Lake
City, TMI offers a wide range of high quality materials and accessories
specifically tuned to the needs of composites manufacturers serving the
aerospace, construction, automotive, marine, sporting goods and kindred
industries where lightweight structures require high strength and stiffness. TMI’s
mission is to work with each client to furnish cost effective quality products,
and to earn each client’s trust and loyalty for the long term.