A weekly look at new products, innovations

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Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corp., has acquired the Safire nitrogen and phosphorus halogen-free fire retardant technology from Floridienne Group and Catena Additives (100 percent subsidiary of Floridienne).

With this acquisition, Huber's goal is to take the patented Safire technology, integrate it within its existing halogen-free portfolio of flame retardants and smoke suppressants and rapidly develop a line of commercial products.

The Safire technology addition marks the third acquisition over the past five years for Huber's growing Fire Retardant Additives business, the firm said, following the 2012 purchase of the specialty hydrate flame retardant business from Almatis and the 2010 acquisition of the Kemgard flame retardant and smoke suppressant business from Sherwin-Williams.

For more information, visit www.hubermaterials.com.

Lord Corp. has developed Chemlok 6270, an adhesive that the company said offers improved bonding performance and mold fouling, as well as premium environmental and prebake resistance.

Developed to improve process efficiency and quality in manufacturing applications, Lord said Chemlok 6270 likely uses include seals, gaskets, bushings, mounts, industrial tires, rolls and rollers, as well as seismic and bridge bearing pads.

With capabilities of bonding uncured rubber-to-metal substrates during the vulcanization of the elastomer, Lord's Chemlok 6270 bonds a variety of rubbers including natural rubber, nitrile and EPDM to multiple substrates including aluminum, brass and grit blasted or phosphatized steel when used in combination with Chemlok primers, the company claimed.

Chemlok 6270 exhibited low pull values after cycling, Lord said, which indicates low mold fouling potential, and it demonstrated low part weight loss, revealing low mold fouling and staining effect.

With improved prebake resistance (340°F—360°F/171°C—182°C), Chemlok 205 primer combined with Chemlok 6270 provide a robust solution when bonding natural rubber (soft, sulfur), Lord said. Aluminum substrates and thin metals soak up heat quickly in the mold and need improved prebaked resistance, and Lord claimed Chemlok 6270 meets this market need. Chemlok 205 and Chemlok 6270 have similar results when bonding natural rubber (hard, peroxide/sulfur).

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Eaton Corp. has unveiled a variable speed drive pump solution that the company said can provide up to 70 percent energy savings for equipment in the machine building, manufacturing, oil and gas and marine industries, depending on the machine duty cycle.

The industrial pump solution, available in open- or closed-loop motion control configurations, reduces operational costs by allowing quieter machine operation, reducing or eliminating cooling needs and allowing for pump downsizing.

The complete VSD solution can include one or more pumps, Eaton said, selected from an offering of PVM variable piston pumps, Hydrokraft variable piston pumps or VMQ fixed vane pumps.

Running pumps at a variable speed reduces noise pollution, protecting operators hearing while meeting noise regulations. Eaton said as equipment efficiency increases, oil coolers can be downsized, limiting the amount of oil used and extending the life of seals and oil. Eaton said its VSD solution also helps machine owners meet Energy related Products (ErP) directive 2009/125/EC.

To learn more about Eaton's variable speed drive solutions, visit www.eaton.com/VSD.