Lightweight pallet system
May 1st 2007 Lightweight
Icepallet, a logistics company in
Melbourne, Australia, has brought
out a range of lightweight
composite moulded pallets. The
pallets were developed and
produced using a range of
formulated minerals in conjunction
with an expandable composite
epoxy system from Huntsman
Advanced Materials.
The pallets are manufactured in
a highly efficient one-shot process
by compression moulding of an
expandable epoxy system (EES).
Glass fibre or natural hemp fibres
can be used as the reinforcement
with the epoxy resin.The EES
impregnates the fabric just prior to
polymerisation in the mould with
the pressure coming from the
expansion of the foaming agent
used to force the resin to wet the
full thickness of the reinforcement
fibre. As a result, the final matrix is
low density, making the part
lightweight yet still high strength. More articles from Huntsman Advanced Materials: | 
