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Wilsonart is a global manufacturer and distributor of high pressure laminates and other engineered composite materials, used in furniture, office and retail space, countertops, worktops and other applications. Headquartered in Temple, Texas, Wilsonart was founded by Ralph Wilson Sr. in 1956.
Durcon Incorporated, a Wilsonart LLC company, [1] is a global company headquartered in Taylor, Texas that manufactures and fabricates chemical resistant epoxy resin countertops and sinks for use in laboratories, classrooms and other research environments. and solid surface counter tops for the commercial construction market.
Micarta, trade name for Westinghouse decorative laminates, now produced by Norplex-Micarta. Wilsonart plastic laminate is a line of laminates similar to Formica. Consoweld, a similar twentieth-century product manufactured by Consolidated Paper of Wisconsin.
Consoweld or Consoweld Laminated Plastic is a type of High Pressure Laminate, similar to Formica decorative laminate. It was produced by the Consoweld Corporation (formerly Consolidated Papers, Inc.) of Wisconsin Rapids in the 1950s. Consoweld laminate was originally developed for several different products from gaskets to caskets during WWII. [1]
Laminate panels are used instead of plywood because of their resistance to impact, weather, moisture, shattering in cold (ductility), and chemicals. Laminate panel layers (called veneers) are glued together with adjacent plies having their grain at right angles to each other for greater strength. The plastic layer(s) added for protection vary ...
A small sample of aerospace grade carbon-fibre/epoxy laminate. In materials science, a composite laminate is an assembly of layers of fibrous composite materials which can be joined to provide required engineering properties, including in-plane stiffness, bending stiffness, strength, and coefficient of thermal expansion.
The inside of the lamination pouch is coated with a heat-activated film that adheres to the product being laminated as it runs through the laminator. The substrate side of the board contains a heat-activated adhesive that bonds the print to the substrate. This can be any of a number of board products or another sheet of laminate.
Large self-supporting wooden roof built for Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. Engineered wood, also called mass timber, composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation [1] to form ...