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Robert Graup, Toolroom Manager for Intex Tooling Technologies and Naithan Loach senior product manager with Axiom Group, break down for me the basics of continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastics composites, its applications and benefits, implications on mold design, build and maintenance/repair, the partnership with Crosslink Composite Technologies, how Intex Tooling and Axiom jointly work on composites projects, and an update on the Axiom Group’s COVID-related projects since we spoke in the spring.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Who are Axiom Group and Intex Tooling Technologies
2:45 Nathan's background
3:09 What is CCT?
3:38 Composite plastics becomining mainstream
5:21 Axiom crosslink technology partnership
8:17 The connection to 3D printing
9:34 What markets are being targeted?
10:04 The influence of continuous fiber, reinforced thermoplastic composites on tooling
12:05 What a moldbuilder needs to know
14:56 Their customers and projects
17:29 How COVID has changed business
19:40 How they see COVID changing the industry
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