RadTech details first RadLaunch candidates

RadTech, the non-profit organization for UV and EB processes, has introduced RadLaunch to support early-stage start-ups and small businesses as they drive advancements in clean, sustainable, efficient and energy-saving, next-generation technologies.

If selected as a RadLaunch participant, each company will receive financial support, a travel grant to attend RadTech 2018, and technical, marketing and funding mentorship opportunities.

The RadLaunch 2018 candidates are:

• Reboot Medical and PhotoCast casting tape, a light-cured composite tape that hardens on-demand, producing a rigid splint or cast;
• A team from Eastern Michigan University for UV LED curable nail gel polishes made from bio-renewable materials;
• UltraV Coatings and protective floor coatings for instant return-to-service and lasting durability for floor finishes, and directional and safety line striping;
• A team from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with nanocrystal photocatalysts, which fill an unmet need for efficient water-soluble photoinitiators for coatings and 2D/3D printing;
• 1of23.com for work to extend the life of exterior siding coatings, and reducing maintenance costs by pre-treating floors and siding with polymers using UV technology to cure and protect wood from extreme exposure;
• Continuous Composites, whose Continuous Fiber 3D printing creates a moldless, ‘out of autoclave’ composite manufacturing process, embedding functional fibers to create a part that can sense and react to stimuli;
• LiTeProducts and Flash sanitizer for disinfecting cutting boards, knives and utensils using environmentally-friendly UV and visible LEDs to enhance food safety at the point of preparation;
• Mica Corporation for EB water-based primers for flexible packaging systems to create the first water-based system used in retort packages with a focus on users of EB digital inks and varnishes;
• Trio Labs and Rapid UV 3D printing, used to create metal and ceramic parts with the same characteristics achieved through standard powder injection molding processes;
• The Foam Printing Project for creating lightweight parts from resin that is foamed using a patent-pending process and solidified using a UV DLP 3D printer, resulting in parts that have up to 75 percent gas fractions, are lighter in weight and less expensive to produce;
• Eaton Chemical and UVLED Anticorrosive ID coating, for downhole oil/gas pipe applications, in contrast to baking systems with significant batching, staging and handling requirements. The system may also be used in-field for repairs, fabrication and couplings where traditional coatings cannot be cured;
• Dynamic Matter for a UV curable thermosetting polymer that can be remolded, relax-stressed or repurposed following polymerization for use in optical applications and composites to reduce shrinkage and environmental stresses;
• A team from the University of Iowa with Transferrable Shadow Cure (TSC), which decouples initiation and propagation mechanisms in cationic photopolymerization to address light penetration problems, providing full cure regardless of geometry, pigment and filler content, and sensitivity of material to light and heat; and
• moi composites with a new, patented process that merges the performances of thermosetting composite materials with the potentialities of additive manufacturing.

The RadLaunch class of 2018 will be presented at RadTech 2018, taking place May 7-9, 2018 in Chicago.