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Technical Paper Unique UV Urethane Adhesives, Coatings and Encapsulants Now Compete with Conventional Urethanes for Military and Space Applications F. By Joseph F. Vaccaro or years, adhesives made from requirements for space environments. UV technology have been used Recently, the military and space abundantly and successfully in industries have been under intense lower technology/price sensitive budgetary and competitive pressures commercial applications where rapid to increase manufacturing efficiencies UV cure meant higher output and and reduce processing times and costs. lower processing costs. However, for These industries are now seeking out the significantly more demanding faster curing, more production-friendly space and military applications, rapid material technologies such as snap- cure rates are not as important as cure thermosets and UV-cured performance requirements. A combina- adhesives, Coatings and encapsulants. tion of requirements such as extreme Industry leaders such as Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, and Recently, the military and space industries have Lockheed Martin have approached specialty formulators to develop the been under intense budgetary and competitive next generation of rapid-cure adhesives, Coatings , and encapsulants pressures to increase manufacturing efficiencies with performance characteristics that and reduce processing times and costs.

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