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including pretreatments and topcoats, designed to protect steel, aluminum and magnesium from corrosion. Uncoated zinc-plated bolts begin to exhibit rust after just 24 hours of salt spray testing, while TC-5001 coated bolts show significant corrosion protection even after 504 hours of testing OFS has introduced AllWave ® One zero water peak (ZWP) single-mode optical fiber, a full-spectrum fiber designed to bend to network demands while lowering attenuation across the optical spectrum. AllWave One fiber is said to improve the performance of optical transmission systems operating over any part of the wavelength range between 1,260nm to 1,625nm. Compared to OFS’s AllWave fiber, AllWaveOne fiber has a very low 0.18 dB/km attenuation specification at 1,550nm, a 40 percent smaller minimum bend radius, a 67 percent lower bend loss and a 33 percent improved polarization mode dispersion (PMD) link design value. The bending performance of AllWave One is 33 percent better and attenuation performance is 15 percent better than AllWave+ fiber in the S-, C-, and L-bands. Like AllWave fiber and AllWave+ fiber, AllWave One fiber will intermix with the installed base of single-mode fibers having a nominal mode field diameter of 9.2 micrometers. Zero water peak fiber

test environments where repeatability and stability are paramount.”

Self-healing coating

NEI Corporation has introduced Nanomyte TC-5001, a nanotechnology-enabled, single component, clear coating, suitable for dipping, brushing and spray application. The new coating is designed to protect zinc-plated and galvanized steel surfaces from rusting under severe environmental and operating conditions. Applications of the coating include hardware (rods, pipes, bolts and screws), automotive components and farming equipment.

The dense barrier coating can be used alone or in combination with Nanomyte PT-100, a self-healing conversion coating. In salt-spray tests (SST, ASTM B117), uncoated zinc-plated steel bolts are said to have exhibited white rust in 24 hours and red rust after 168 hours, while theNanomyte coating provided significant corrosion protection, even after 504 hours of salt-spray. Nanomyte TC-5001 is part of an expanding portfolio of anti-corrosion coating systems,

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