Industrial Epoxy Composite - Rhino Linings Industrial

Rhino Composites

The Rhino Linings epoxy composite products focus on key emerging markets offering specialized development, sales and production of thermosetting, high performance matrix resins for use with e-glass and carbon fiber. Key markets for Rhino Compostite products include:

• Infrastructure Retrofit

• CIPP (Cured In Place Pipe)

• VARTM (Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding)

CIPP

CIPP (Cured In Place Pipe) clients start at the grass roots level with several thousands corporate and independent plumbers performing repairs on home size sewer lines using a no dig technology that forms a pipe within a pipe. Large, municipality and utility scale users are also taking advantage of this technology. CIPP now represent about 25% of the non-wind epoxy sale and growing every day.

CIPP 1310T-LT BLue

Rhino 1310T-LT Blue is a 100% solids, non-draining, epoxy system for producing Cured In-Place Pipe. It is a single resin system with multiple choices of either 2:1 or 4:1 (by volume) curing agent hardeners. Rhino 1310T LT Blue epoxy resin is tinted transparent blue, and the hardeners are transparent yellow, so when the system is properly mixed a uniform green color is achieved. Rhino 1310T LT Blue Resin CIPP systems have a proven track record in conjunction with felt or fiberglass liner materials.

Features & Benefits:

• Rehabilities underground pipes

• Cures very fast with mild (120°F heat)

• Trenchless repair of pipes from 2" to 102" in diameter

• Effectively lines pipes and drain lines with 90-degree bend

• ASTM F-126 compliant, adding value and assuring quality in the CIPP process

Applications:

• Applications requiring less invasive pipe system replacement procedures

• Municipal, residential, commercial markets (manholes and underground pipe systems)

• Trenchless, less invasive sectional point repair for structural repair without digging

• Lateral and sectional point repair rehabilitation

• Re-lining markets (homes, sanitary and storm sewers, pipelines)

Infrastructure Retrofit

Infrastructure Retrofit is used for seismic upgrade, blast protection and composite repair of conventional concrete/rebar structures that are failing. The infrastructure market segment has grown nearly 100% per year and now represents about 35% of non-wind epoxy sales. An added bonus in this market is that many of its existing epoxy clients can use Rhino Linings urethane formulations.

1310T Resin

A 100% solids, non-draining epoxy system for epoxy composites. Rhino 1310T is a single resin system with multiple choices of either 2:1 or 4:1 (by volume) curing agent hardeners for variety of fiber reinforced applications. A ide variety of Rhino hardeners are avaliable to use with Rhino 1310T Resin.

Features & Benefits:

• Fast wet-out of fiberglass reinforcements with minimal drainage from laminate

• Flexible warp conforms to any shape

• Reduced installation time

• Less weight / low thermal expansion

• Greater fatigue resistance / greater strength and reinforcement

Applications:

• Infrastructure seismic upgrades (concrete, beams, columns, pipes)

• Carbon fiber or glass filament winding (pressure tanks, vessels)

• Fatigue resistant FRP manufacturing parts

• Composite tooling

VARTM (Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding)

VARTM (Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding) or Liquid Resin Infusion is a composite manufacturing process in which the dry fibers are laid on the tool and vacuum sealed and the liquid resin is drawn through with a vacuum pump to create rotor wind blades. Liquid resin technology provides for lower cost and lower cure temperatures. Since the liquid resin techniques do not require curing cycles over 60°C, the tooling for the blades is much easier to construct. Liquid resin infusion almost always forms a uniform composite of nearly ideal 65 percent fiberglass to 35 percent resin by weight.