These articles from our Applications Notebook contain 200+ case studies of how RTP Company specialty compounds have been used to solve real world application problems. Discover the performance, design, and molding considerations that led to specifying a material from our wide selection of value-added thermoplastic compounds.
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Cell Phone Gasket
RTP Company has developed a new material which provides electromagnetic and radio frequency interference (EMI/RFI) shielding and is pliable enough to serve as a gasket or seal.
Multimeter Shield
Molded conductive composites for EMI/RFI shielding are most difficult to qualify by pre-assembly testing.
Potentiometer Devices
Imagine! Complex engineering plastic parts no bigger than the letter on your phone dial. What a challenge to the designers, the material supplier, and the processor.
Shore Power Connector
Matt Smith, Vice President of Manufacturing for SmartPlug Systems, describes his family as “lifelong sailors,” and recalls being practically “raised onboard a boat.”
Semi Truck Wiring Harness
The undersides of long-haul semi-trailer trucks are subject to a “chemical cocktail” of ongoing abuse.
Electrical Terminal Block
Stanwick Electrical Products and molder Pre Plastics turned to RTP Company for an RTP 200 Series nylon compound that meets the extreme demands of electrical terminal block carriers used in the utility/power generation industry.
Thermochromatic Film
A little girl’s nighttime dream of a magic coat that changed color in the rain inspired the founding of Chameleon International.
Speaker Cone
The first loudspeaker may have been created when Thomas Edison attached a flexible diaphragm to the throat of an acoustic horn.
Cell Phone Antenna
The cell phone industry calls for intense innovation, enabling consumers to communicate everywhere and at all times.
