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Increase your productivity....Up to 4 bonders in one!!

Zimac introduces its new X-8 dual zone multi-feedback hot bonder. Drive up to 8 power outputs with dual or single zone and measure with up to 28 thermocouples for composite repair/manufacturing.

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology includes two Zimac composite hot bonders for instruction in traditional and new techniques.

The industry leader in composite hot bonders for composite repair, doublers, patch metal hot bonding, composite in-situ repair or hot bonding and integral heat in manufacturing or manufacturing repair.

Our Pledge:

To………….. manufacturing, repair depots and technicians
Who……….. want a composite hot bonder or metal patch bonder, or retrogression re-aging of 7075T6, or general stress relieving.

We offer…... an easy to apply blanket and cell methodology, no fuss monitoring, with locked in automatic reporting
That……….. delivers precise uniform heat using up to 16 zones of independent control with patented heat cells and duty cycled heat blankets.

Unlike……... traditional methodologies dependant solely on one zone feedback, blanket technology, that have increased risk for hot spots and delaminating peripheral composite

We provide... a hot bonder control system and a patented process that ensures bond line temperature to deliver quality hot bonding jobs, with highest productivity.

The P-8 Hot Bonder

The P-8 provides a sophisticated high power composite hot bonder for repair or manufacture of small to very large parts or repairs. It can be upgrade to P-16, P-24 or to P-32.

The Zimac team and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC-CNRC) developed the Hot Bonder originally to provide a simple way to apply heat for airframe repair when curing metal doublers. Other techniques and hot bonders relying solely on heat lamps and heat blankets can be unreliable. The technique developed included patented cells and a sixteen-zone computer controller with 32 channels for power output and up to 56 thermocouples. The cell technique coupled with up to 16 zones of feedback accounts for any heat sinking. The composite hot bonders are modular and start with the introductory P-8 hot bonder unit that provides 8 zones and 8 outputs for auxiliary or heat blanket control. To further support heat blanket repair during composite repair the unit can be upgraded to a P-16 unit that adds another 8 channels and 8 cells. The cells can be independently controlled or grouped. As individual heat sources they can be used to dam up the heat at heat sinks like stringers. Or, they can be used to shape the heat by our newly applied patent technique. Either method delivers 250, 350 or 450 +/- 10 degrees Fahrenheit into the composite.

You May Never Have to Buy a Heat Blanket Again!

….You can use our heaters on planar or 3D surfaces using standard vacuum bagging techniques . For out of planar complex geometries we have thermally conductive materials to make 3D caul plates (patents applied).

...Summary. With this technology you can shape your heat to the patch size and contour required to attain superb, uniform, precisely targeted heat with highest productivity from the Zimac hot bonder on metal or composites.

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