The story: Krayden partnered with a manufacturer having difficulties with sealing honeycomb panels. The issue was excessive waste due to material running (sagging) out of panel gap and excessive re-application and machining due to voids in cured material. Axson 230/234 (Now Sika Advanced Resins) was used because it was lightweight, has a low density, and…
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The story: A contract manufacturer making Transformers for HVAC had issues related to too rigid of an epoxy system, so as parts heated up, components would pop off and the PBA would crack. Krayden partnered with ITW to delivered the Insulgel 70 cc FRNS, because it has a high CTE so it can expand as…
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The story: Krayden partnered with a National producer of fishing boat supplies and ITW to deliver an epoxy solution via Insulcast 333 with Insulcure 9. The existing epoxy solution on the trolling motor was cracking during processing, which were driving high failure rates, so Insulcast’s low moisture vapor transition rate (LMVT) was less rigid, improving…
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The story: Krayden, Chemetall and a leading Canadian MRO customer had a challenge – How to speed up the super slow cycle time of stripping paint on an aircraft. The current “local” product was painfully slow, so our customer reached out to us and we suggested the Chemetall 3000-W material, which was literally twice as…
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The story: A global household appliance customer partnered with Krayden and Humiseal to solve a vibration and humidity issue that also had to look good to the end consumer (basically had to be soft and white). The solution was to use Humiseal UV40, which was more expensive than the previous material, BUT the cure time,…
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The story: Krayden partnered with a global appliance manufacturer and leveraged the newly developed Humiseal UV13W to solve their humidity, vibration and run rate issues. The material delivered the right cure system, dielectric properties, had good adhesion and the needed run rate performance. The solution delivered both a UV cure AND a conformal coating. Since…
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The story: Working closely with Humiseal and a leader in circuit board assembly, we used the Humiseal 1A33 gel to build a dam around the connectors to ensure the material remains where it is dispensed, avoiding the dreaded “wicking.” Although the conformal coating was more expensive, this new process eliminated the previous time consuming rework,…
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The story: Krayden partnered with a global light bulb company to reinvent the process of light bulb production by utilizing the Loctite AA3462 Light Cure adhesive and coupled it with the CL30 LED Flood light and Cure Spot Light to optimize the fast curing process. The new LED bulbs have a circuit board and plastic…
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The story: Krayden partnered with a Contract Manufacturer to the Military and saved the customer about 25% (cost of material and time to repack themselves). As an authorized Distributor of Dow (the integrated supplier was not), we applied Dow 3145 and leveraged our repackaging expertise (changed the size of the cartridges) to eliminate air in…
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The story: Krayden partnered with a leading, Tier 1 manufacturer of high-efficiency, photovoltaic modules and used Alpha PV38i Solar Flux to reduce machine maintenance and post operation cleaning. Why? This Flux has low activity and solids, which saved significant time (and money) on production. What is the application? Fluxing of solar panel interconnects What…
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The story: Krayden partnered with a large Southeastern Trailer Manufacturer by using the Bostik 70-07 material to improve application speed, decrease clean up time and most importantly improved bonding strength between the aluminum side wall sheets and steel studs. The customer’s previous material cured too fast for their process, so the Bostik material allowed for…
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The story: Krayden partnered with a prominent East Coast Manufacturer of Fishing Boats, and identified ITW Plexus MA2090 Adhesive as the solution because it had excellent adhesion to dissimilar substrates, it had a long working time and it bonded gaps up to 1.5 inches and as tight as 30/1000’s. In production there was little to…
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The Story: Krayden partnered with Alpha and a large East Coast based pump company to solve an engineering issue related to material “spatter.” Working closely with the Alpha engineers, we eliminated the need to clean the spatter by replacing the original material with Alpha Telecore HF-850, which also saved the customer 25% and reduced the…
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The story: Krayden Canada and a leading manufacturer of lighting solution had been challenged with designing overhead lights for a train station. We needed to find a solution to create an access panel that could be opened and closed for service reasons but would have an airtight seal to protect the lights from the environment.…
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The story: Krayden partnered with a leading provider of armor protection for ground vehicles, boats, and personnel to tackle the issue of window delamination on a military vehicle due to the exposure to heat and UV rays. The vehicles were already in use, so we had to find a solution that tests to the military…
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The Facts: Krayden partnered with Dow and a leading manufacturer of hosing, tubing, ducting and electronic components to develop multiple bonding solutions for a large Transit customer in a major metropolitan area. What was unique was the fact that we collectively found one material, Dow EA-7100, to solve three solutions, saving time and money. …
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Working with the engineers from a 100+-year-old global supplier of LED light bulbs, Krayden helped to leverage the team at Dow to come up with a solution to keep an LED circuit from rattling inside an LED light bulb. What is the application? Keeping an LED circuit board from rattling inside a light bulb…
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Denver – October 9, 2018 – Krayden Inc. is proud to congratulate one of our very own Technical Sales Representative, Rick Malhiot, who has been presented the “2017 Henkel Sales Pro of the Year Award.” This admired award shows his never-ending devotion, work ethic, and his reliability to provide the leading technical support when supporting…
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