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Photo Credit: Alpine Advanced Materials Samples of Alpine Advanced Materials’ (Dallas, Texas) HX5 coated with Signature Plating’s (Cibolo, Texas) Signashield antimicrobial clearcoat have showed a 99.93-percent reduction in Staphylococcus aureus, and a 99.92-percent reduction in E. coli. “As manufacturers face heightened attention on microbe transmission, materials like HX5 will need to be evaluated through that lens, which is why we had this testing done,” says Roger Raley, presid...

Photo Credit: Alpine Advanced Materials Alpine Advanced Materials (Dallas, Texas, U.S.) reported in October that it has completed Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) testing on HX5 — a lightweight military aviation grade thermoplastic nanocomposite material — and found it to have exceptional attenuation when bare or plated with various thicknesses of nickel and copper. The highly engineered HX5 has already demonstrated its strength and performance for use in complex components, says the c...