Araldite product wins innovation award

The award recognises wider-based innovation, covering new service offerings, new approaches to market and even novel supply chain or business operations. Looking at Huntsman's position as an early pioneer of SL resin, the company was selected as an award winner for not only embracing rapid prototyping but in going a significant step further in developing a complete rapid manufacturing solution. Araldite Digitalis is a rapid manufacturing machine which is capable of producing large numbers of parts simultaneously at speed and with a high degree of accuracy. Based on entirely new micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, Araldite Digitalis is claimed to be superior to any other radiation curing technique on the market. A radical exposure system operating via a computer controlled micro-mechanical shutter which selectively exposes a larger surface area or radiation curable resin in a single step. As opposed to a laser which exposes one point at a time, the exposure offered by Araldite Digitalis enables much faster and accurate manufacturing, even of very complex parts. The system significantly reduces production times and thereby costs and is said to be easy to use and maintain. Initial tests at customer sites have already proven the huge potential of the technology and recent developments to enhance its speed further also show that this technology is ideal for producing small to medium sized similar or identical parts.