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Beryllium safe-handling guide now available online
The Interactive Guide to Working Safely with Beryllium and Beryllium-Containing Materials is now available online at www.brushwellman.com. The guide has won national and regional awards for its effective approach to promoting safety precautions to customers, vendors and employees. It is based on Brush Wellman’s beryllium Worker Protection Model, which was developed as the result of extensive research and decades of real occupational experiences. Based on user selections from dozens of work roles, material types and operational variables, the guide can generate a customised, printable action plan to assist in the safe handling of beryllium and beryllium-containing materials. To view the interactive guide online or to order a CD version, visit www.brushwellman.com
Rubber
A free rubber selection guide CD that helps designers choose the correct polymer is available from Rubber Industries Inc.. Featuring comparison charts and sample parts, the CD contains an easy to understand, brief description of the most popular base polymers together with durometer range, useful temperature range, useful properties, typical applications and costs. It categorises polymer performance characteristics such as fluid resistance, temperature resistance, hardness, shrinkage, abrasion resistance, elongation, modulus and cost for easy evaluation and includes a moulding tolerance chart that shows typical part sizes, minimum tolerances and possible secondary operations needed for successful part design.
www.rubberindustries.com/freecd
Silicone
A 16-page silicone material selection guide has been issued by Rogers Corp. that includes product samples and tips for materials selection based on applications. The company’s BISCO family of materials is offered in cellular, solid and speciality grades for applications such as insulation, cushioning, heat and EMI shielding and vibration isolators. Specification tables list typical physical properties, flammability and outgassing, temperature resistance and electrical/thermal properties. Additional tables provide acoustic and thermal performance values for speciality silicones.
www.rogerscorporation.com/hpf/bisco
