Suppliers in Rail & Mass Transit

"We have a long history of manufacturing and supplying high quality aluminum honeycomb core, a key component in some of the most impressive structures in the world. Combining incredible strength with light weight, our honeycomb core is used in a wide range of projects in the automotive, rail, construction, marine, wind turbine, wind tunnel and architectural industries. We have a wide range of clients and our aluminum honeycomb can be found in the London Eye, the Heathrow Personal Rapid Transit Pod, the Eurotunnel Vehicle Shuttle and The Berkeley Hotel in London. Encocam Ltd is an innovative and creative organization with over 30 years’ experience, spanning a large range of innovative and creative industries from energy absorption, safety testing solutions, composite panels, interior design, motorbikes, architecture and a range of manufacturing and engineering services."

Etna Tec Limited, LLC is a custom thermoset resin manufacturer with over 20 years of experience. We offer direct lab access and technical expertise for resin design, as well as a pilot plant and production platform. We serve customers of all sizes, from small/middle market companies to Fortune 500 companies. Our facility and lab help us provide our customers with the best resins for coatings, adhesives, sealants, 3D printing, and elastomers.

3B-the fiberglass company is a leading developer and supplier of glass fiber products and technologies for the reinforcement of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers. We operate 3 state-of-the art manufacturing facilities located in Battice (Belgium), Birkeland (Norway) and Goa (India) as well as a dedicated R&D Center in Battice (Belgium) and a Customer Service Center in Brussels (Belgium, at the very heart of Europe). Our products are designed and optimized to serve the automotive industry, the wind industry and to be incorporated in performance composites.

Elliott Company of Indianapolis is the manufacturer and formulator of rigid unfaced, closed-cell polyiso/urethane foam commonly referred to as PIR/ PUR foam. We supply ELFOAM® blocks, sheets & fabricated shapes in 2-6 lbs/ft3 densities to OEMs throughout North America. Available thicknesses range from 1/8" to 24". Our ELFOAM foam products are compatible with most composite processes/resins and can handle +/-300°F temperatures. It provides excellent thermal insulation and meet Class I flammability ratings. Perforation/Scoring finishes also available. Applications include panel/infrastructure cores, insulation, commercial/industrial temperature controlled environments, rib stiffeners, pattern media, fire-resistant building envelope components, profile inserts, drainage slopes and Defense/Security innovations. elliottfoam.com

"Our vision is to creating material solutions that support a greener future and accelerate the shift to a circular economy. At Gen 2 Carbon we remain committed to offering the most advanced technologies and processing methods for carbon fibre recovery.Focused on the development of next generation carbon fibre recovery systems and expansion of carbon fibre nonwoven business."

"Working since 1949 in the transformation of textile flax, the Depestele Group , a fully integrated international group, manages the entire textile sector from the cultivation of flax to the production of finished fabrics. The leading private flax producer in Europe, the group works on around 8,000 hectares in flax cultivation in the departments of Seine-Maritime, Eure and Calvados. The company works with more than 600 farmers. Its two main activities are the cultivation and scutching of flax. The group has 4 scutching lines, allowing the recovery of all the straw by obtaining various products: tow (long fiber), tow (short fiber), shives (wood part of the stem) and seeds. The Depestele Group is present in the entire textile sector from agricultural production to weaving. It offers a high-end fiber for the clothing and household linen market. To diversify its production, the Depestele Group is also developing fibers that can be used directly by manufacturers in the composite sector for structural applications. The company has the ""Masters of Linen"" label which indicates that the flax has been cultivated and processed within the European Union, in compliance with the environmental and social standards in force."

"Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Adligenswil, Switzerland, Sekisui Alveo AG has been part of the SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group since 1973, a global chemical corporation with more than 23,000 employees, headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Sekisui Alveo operates foam manufacturing plants in Germany and the Netherlands. The foam division of the Sekisui Group is active in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and the USA. This allows customers to benefit from our global presence..Our market leadership commits us to excellence With recognized expertise and strong capabilities in application design and testing, Sekisui Alveo develops, manufactures, and distributes high-quality polyolefin foams. These products stand out due to their superior technical performance and easy converting properties – giving you decisive advantages over other foams. As Europe's leading manufacturer and innovation driver in the field of foam technology, we focus on our customers’ needs for quality, comprehensive services, and gaining an edge in development. Our customers benefit from individual solutions created through close collaboration."

When it comes to chemical products, you need powerful solutions that will get the job done. You also need to be able to trust these solutions — trust in their safety and trust in their quality. At International Products Corporation (IPC), we understand that this trust is just as important as the power of the solutions, and that’s why we manufacture our specialty cleaners and temporary assembly lubricants with these core tenets in mind.

"Auburn is your dependable gasket manufacturer for high quality die-cut fabrications. Auburn specializes in prototypes, short runs, or production quantities in the millions."

Alkar Technology is a company established in 2002 by Alain Kinard that specializes in composite materials. It offers services like development, study, calculation of laminates/structures, prototyping and small series. In 2009, it participated in the JEC World Exhibition of Composites in Paris to showcase its own product, the honeycomb with large cells. It also took part in the MIDEST Industrial Subcontracting Fair in 2009 and was nominated for the Innovation Trophies in 2015. In 2013, Victor Hallet joined the company as a partner. Alkar Technology also produces four types of sailboats for regattas.

POLIBRID COATINGS, INC. is a specialty manufacturer and licensor of premium quality, solventless elastomeric polyurethanes used as heavy-duty protective coatings and linings for a wide range of severe service industrial applications. Sophisticated specifiers, coatings consultants and major coatings contractors worldwide consider us the leading specialists in solventless elastomeric polyurethane technology! POLIBRID COATINGS, INC. has successfully maintained the highest standards of quality in its coating and lining products. Founded in 1982, it was one of the earliest advocates for the use of plural-component airless spray, now a well established application technology. Its high performance coating and lining systems protect critical structures and equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It is regarded as the most dependable and versatile product in its class, including polyureas!

Among the various plastics, phenolic resin has the oldest history. It was developed by Dr. Leo H. Baekeland, an American of Belgian ancestry, in 1907 and he named that synthetic resin "Bakelite". In 1911, Sankyo Company (currently Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.)

Park Aerospace Corp. develops and manufactures advanced composite materials, primary and secondary structures and assemblies and low-volume tooling for the aerospace markets. Park’s aerospace manufacturing and development facility is located in Newton, Kansas.

US Coatings is a leading provider of high-performance coatings and linings. We custom tailor our industrial coating products to fit the needs of clients across a wide variety of markets, and we pride ourselves on offering superior customer service through the duration of the job. Founded in 2000 in St. Louis, Missouri, US Coatings has emerged as a company doing business all over the country, with close connections spanning a vast number of specialty coatings markets. Despite this success, we’re committed to remaining nimble enough to be able to take on any coatings challenge, large or small. US Coatings is focused on building relationships with our customers so we’re here before, during and after the sale with personalized attention to your project that our competitors can’t match. More than just purveyors of paint, we take collaborating with our customers seriously, providing superior service throughout the course of your job.

AFCONA Chemicals has experienced tremendous growth since it was founded in 2005 in Southeast Asia. Today we are a truly global company, with manufacturing, technical, and commercial operations on four continents. These sites support a network of dedicated sales staff and independent distributors who provide exemplary service to our customers around the world. We have a staff of more than 160 employees worldwide, and our management team has decades of experience in the coatings and chemicals industries. While our company is relatively young, we represent a wealth of experience our customers can bank on. One key to AFCONA’s rapid growth is our drive for continuous innovation. We have been able to provide advanced solutions to the market by tailoring our R&D, Applications, and Technical Service capabilities to the needs of our customers. Today more than 30% of our revenue is generated by products that have been in the marketplace for less than 5 years. And we reinvest more than 5% of our revenue into R&D every year to ensure our innovation pipeline remains healthy and continues to grow.

Adhesive Prepregs for Composite Manufacturers is one of the industries top Prepregs manufacturers. We are a developer of thermoset epoxy prepregs for the manufacturers, designers and hobbyists of composite parts. Adhesive Prepregs has been manufacturing prepregs since 1992. APCM, LLC. is a growing member of the composite industry. We are currently striving to bring this highly technical form of manufacturing to the open market. We produce an uncompromised light weight, high strength material. Determination and longevity will prevail in this endeavor. APCM, LLC. began in 1992 with principle members from McCann Manufacturing Co. APCM, LLC. has developed innovative ways to produce and customize prepregs that are lighter… stronger… and faster to use. We’re a cooperative group of craftspeople founded by David L. Young. David is formerly from McCann Manufacturing Co., Inc. Adhesive Prepregs for Composite Manufacturers has a combined 30 years of experience in the manufacturing of Epoxy Adhesive Prepregs.

Our vision is to be the global leader in performance minerals that enables innovative product solutions for everyday life. KaMin is a recognized leader with more than 90 years of experience in delivering performance mineral solutions in a broad spectrum of end use markets including: building & construction, automotive & catalyst, agriculture, health & beauty, packaging, and specialty & graphic paper. The company mines, produces and distributes its products from its three US plants located in Georgia – Macon, Sandersville and Wrens – and internationally at production and converting facilities in South America (Brazil) and Europe (Belgium). As a global leader in the industry, our singular focus is on kaolin performance minerals. KaMin’s natural resources, technical expertise and know-how allow customers all over the world to produce highly engineered products for the most demanding applications. KaMin has worked diligently to pair big business scale and efficiency combined with small business focus and agility. Bringing together the best people in every discipline, from our geologists, chemists, engineers, technicians and customer service, we strive daily to create the greatest possible value for our customers—value from the ground up.

"The R.J. Marshall Company was founded by Richard J. and Joan E. Marshall in May of 1978. Originally conceived as a manufacturer representative company, R.J. Marshall sold commodity grade industrial raw materials. Soon, they found a way to offer a solution to the inconsistent quality of materials drawn from individual mines: a better way to achieve the best possible properties from batch to batch. This kind of consistency and quality has been the hallmark of the R.J. Marshall reputation even today. Offering a broad base of products to both the cast polymer and composites markets as well as the wire and cable industry, R.J. Marshall with its flame retardant and smoke suppressant division; Marshall Additive Technologies, and its subsidiary; Marshall Gruber Company, can service a full range of solutions to manufacturers for a variety of applications."

APEC, established in 1996, specializes in R&D and manufacture of eco-friendly waterborne acrylic emulsion adhesives, PSAs (Pressure Sensitive Adhesives), waterborne PUD (Polyurethane Dispersion) and AUD (Acrylic Urethane Dispersion). With its mission to contribute to human health and natural environment conservation by endeavoring to convert solvent-based emulsion adhesives into water-based ones, APEC has been committed to creating customer value and grown with its customers by collaborated, intensive R&D activities for the last two decades. Our capacity for agile renewal coupled with innovative corporate culture and supportive leadership enables us to offer our customers tailor-made, environment-friendly products that help them meet their local and global standards and responsibilities with high performance products. Our technological capabilities meet increasing customer demand for high quality and sustainable options. We collaborate and partner with you to understand your needs and recommend the right solutions.

Global Supplier to the Composites and Coatings industries, Reichhold is one of the world's largest suppliers of unsaturated polyester resins for composites and a leading supplier of coating resins for a wide variety of markets and applications. With its world headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, USA, and 19 manufacturing sites (17 operated by Reichhold) and 5 technology centers located around the world, Reichhold has the widest global reach of any resin supplier today.

From our state-of-the-art facility in Bay City, Michigan, our team of experienced engineers and chemists formulate high-performance structural composites that are transforming the industries we serve around the globe. From bullet trains and next-generation commercial aircraft to cutting edge Lamborghini and Dodge Viper high-performance sports cars, game changing sporting goods components to specialized military applications, we collaborate with our customers to deliver highly engineered solutions, leveraging our advanced materials technology. The pedigree of our materials has been proven in demanding environments ranging from High-Temperature / High-Pressure oil & gas applications to sub zero military conditions and jet fuel soaked aircraft secondary structures. Quantum Composites is best known for the high-strength, high-temperature Engineered Structural Composites® (ESC®) developed and manufactured for use in demanding structural applications and environments. Our advanced and proprietary materials allow designers the freedom to conceive and develop complex, three-dimensional solutions at a lowered cost compared to parts fabricated with traditional composites or metals. ESC® materials empower design solutions that provide improved weight-to-strength performance compared to metals and conventional composite approaches.

We dedicate our efforts to develop, produce, market and deliver products and services of the highest quality and uniformity that consistently meet our customers’ needs. In this endeavor, we are committed to continually improve the reliability of our products, services and the overall performance of our organization in order to meet our obligations to our customers, our suppliers, our employees and our stockholder.

Since 1944 we have provided unparalleled service and support to thousands of satisfied customers worldwide. At Hecht Rubber we stock thousands upon thousands of hard-to-find items in both common and uncommon sizes. If the exact item you need is not in stock, our professional staff can manufacture it to your specifications at our state of the art custom fabrication facility.

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"LFT-G®‘s team has a combined 20 years of composites knowledge, our design, material, and process engineers are always accessible to answer your questions and as our partner will be there to support you throughout your entire product life cycle. We continually engage in new product and process research to expand the performance envelope and use of long fiber technology in new and innovative ways."

"Atlantic Equipment Engineers, Inc. was founded in 1963, as a materials engineering company. Our primary goal was to supply the needs of the expanding space program. At the same time, newly emerging high-tech companies with requirements for unusual electronic and high purity materials turned to AEE for materials covering the spectrum from powder to ingot and from element to compound. New materials are continuously being sourced and produced to demanding specifications and stocked for immediate shipment. In 1969, AEE became a Division of Micron Metals, Inc., and continued to be a unique source for the high quality, high purity metals, compounds and fabricated forms required to meet the needs of today’s researchers, engineers, technicians, and manufacturers around the world. In 2001 AEE was certified to ISO 9002. Since then, we have continued to grow, and improve our quality management system to meet the current ISO 9001 standard. In 2010, we moved our headquarters to its current state-of-the-art location in Upper Saddle River, NJ, dramatically increasing our size and capabilities. In 2020, as the world shut down due to the COVID epidemic, we were proud to stay open, continuing to serve critical industries across the globe."

RS Clare & Co Ltd was founded in Liverpool in 1748 by Richard S Clare. We are the longest established lubricants manufacturer in the United Kingdom. For a company of this age RS Clare think long term, we are in it for the long haul. It is refreshing to find a family company going from strength to strength irrespective of conditions in our domestic economy. Our pursuit of excellence in all that we do is of the essence and we have won award after award in recent years for innovation. Sound finance, innovative R&D, fitness for purpose and highly motivated people are all co-ordinated in pursuit of our goals. If there’s one quality to which we owe our success it has to be our commitment to excellence in everything we make, everything we do, commitment to our technology, our customers, our stakeholders and our reputation.

Established in 1898, CHOMARAT is an international industrial textile group, involved in three businesses: Composites Reinforcements, Construction Reinforcements, Coatings & Films–Textiles. The privately held company operates in France, Tunisia, the United States and China to service its global customers. CHOMARAT leads a strong innovation strategy, rising to challenges, developing materials for the future. Hence, the Group invests in new technologies and enters into collaborative research programs with universities and technical centers worldwide. CHOMARAT offers strong technical know-how and mastery of complex technologies in fields ranging from automotive, aerospace, sports, energy, marine, construction, and also in markets requiring creativity and expertise, like luxury goods.

Hoffmann Mineral GmbH is a German manufacturer of a natural mineral filler, named Neuburg Siliceous Earth, which is a combination of corpuscular Neuburg Silica and lamellar kaolinite: a loose mixture impossible to separate by physical methods. As a result of natural aging, the silica portion exhibits a round grain shape and consists of aggregated primary particles of about 200 nm diameter. The unique structure leads to good application properties. This functional filler is sold worldwide under its trade name SILLITIN and SILLIKOLLOID and surface treated AKTISIL. Our calcined products SILFIT and AKTIFIT are based on the standard product SILLITIN Z 86. A thermal process is used to expel the crystalline water in the kaolinite portion and new mineral phases are formed practically amorphous. The silica portion remains inert at the temperature used. The resulting products have an outstandingly high degree of white and color neutrality.

CoreLite is a global manufacturer of advanced core materials that was founded because of an idea - that innovative core materials will optimize the way everyone works with composites. This idea drives everything we do at CoreLite. Our goal is to develop composite solutions that will make structures lighter, stronger, and more sustainable. We believe that delivering advanced core materials with the highest quality standards, in a timely and sustainable manner is the cornerstone for achieving this goal.

Committed to delivering the finest recyclable core materials with on time deliveries and expert technical support to insure our customers success. XTX Composites is dedicated to becoming a loyal team player and supplier to each customer, so we will better serve their needs and requirements going forward.

Neville Chemical Company is recognized as a pioneer and major manufacturer of Hydrocarbon Resins with a 90 year history in the industry. We strategically focus on developing long term business relationships that will prove mutually beneficial to our customers, suppliers, employees and shareholders. Hydrocarbon Resins are used extensively in the formulation of Adhesive and Sealants, Concrete Cure, Coatings, Inks, Tire and Industrial Rubber products. Neville offers a broad range of HCR Chemistry Families in a variety/multitude of grades. Neville is recognized as a reliable supplier of quality resins with a proven track record of customer satisfaction, service, technical support and partnering with both supplier and customer for continuous product improvement.

For 70 years Menzolit has been Compounding Solutions for high quality SMC and BMC products designed for a variety of applications and markets including: Automotive, Commercial Vehicles, Construction, Electrical, Energy, Industrial, Mass Transport and Sanitary. With HQ in Freising (DE), 3 production facilities in Europe and licensees around the globe. Menzolit is the leading Sheet Molding Compound and Bulk Molding Compound global supplier. As a part of Senata, financial independence, time to market and acting instead of reacting are our core values. Our aim is to deliver the most efficient solution to our customers, from development to production, supply and after-sales support. Glass and Carbon fiber reinforced compounds made by Menzolit are tailored to your specific needs.