The New Resin Product "DHP" is being introduced next week

I havent been on the site in a while though I know from time to time people are curious about what I’m up to in San Diego. Well I am still mixing resin and we have been continually making progress towards the introduction of this product at the manufacture level. I am eagerly anticipating starting the training of the first outside manufacture this next week. We have worked hard in the last two months preparing for this. In that time I have produced two packets of info that we are sending out to educate the manufactures on how the system works, why it works, cost … etc. We had an awesome experience at the ASR show in San Diego and the industry support has been unreal. If you were there thanks for the encouragement. I am going to be attempting to send my workers around in the next 4 months to show factories the basics before summer hits next year. This stuff is not like epoxy or polyester though it resembles parts of each in application. If anyone out there would like to jump on this early, I would be more than happy to send out a packet, or field any Q’s by e-mail. Thanks Mark Tolan http://www.astsurf.com

Maybe it’s to early, but could you inform us here on this site on how it’s works, can you use it on styrofoam and polystyrene ect. Thanks, Peter Rijk.

Maybe it’s to early, but could you inform us here on this site on how it’s > works, can you use it on styrofoam and polystyrene ect. And maybe you could give a little hint concerning the chemical basis of your resin ( EP, UP,…)? Thank you Henning

Until Tolan returns, try this: http://www.polymerlabs.com/stratospheres/pldhp.htm The AST site shows some DHP test results: http://www.astsurf.com/dhp.html To me, avoiding the epoxy allergic reaction with DHP is great. From the AST site… DHP appears to resist breaking better than poly resin, but appears to fall short of epoxy resin. DHP appears to be more flexible than poly resin, and way more flexible than epoxy resin. DHP appears to be WAY more crack resistant than either poly resin or epoxy resin. And DHP appears to be more dent resistant than either poly resin or epoxy resin.

Maybe it’s to early, but could you inform us here on this site on how it’s > works, can you use it on styrofoam and polystyrene ect.>>> Thanks, Peter Rijk. Peter, From the test results on the AST site, looks like you can use it on EPS, XPS. The tests show DHP+EPS has more flex than Epoxy+EPS. So DHP might adress complaints about Epoxy +eps boards feeling too stiff. Are there any closed cel stryofoam-like foams that have similar flex/memory properties to PU foam? If so you may be able to get a DHP/styrofoam board that was as responsive as PU/polyester. I don’t know what DHP costs but styrofoam is cheaper than PU.

Thanks for the info. so far. Indeed styro/eps is cheaper, but its the hardfoam/carbon sandwich construction that makes the boards (windsurfing) expensive. So the costs of the resin and if available in Europe is importand to. looking forward to further info and a try out with a vacuum bag. Peter Rijk