Advanced Process Technology, Inc.

Advanced Process Technology, Inc.

Type	Private
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded 📆	1969 (1969)
Founders 👔	Hank Phillips and Rey Minnich
Headquarters 🏙️	Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
Area served 🗺️	Worldwide
Key people	Henry Phillips
Products 📟	Defense and Resin Process Equipment
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🌐 Website	www.advancedprocesstechnology.com
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Advanced Process Technology, Inc. is an American manufacturer of precision cast urethane process equipment, epoxy vacuum potting and encapsulating equipment and epoxy composite RTM equipment and VARTM equipment. APT’s resin processing equipment is used to degas, meter, mix and dispense a variety of urethanes, epoxies, and other plural component, abrasive filled and unfilled resins, providing both continuous and shot output for laboratory and production applications. APT also manufactures a line of process tanks for batch and continuous agitation, heating and vacuum degassing. The company is headquartered in Middlesex, New Jersey and services its customers worldwide in a variety of diverse applications.

History

1969

Hank Phillips, a Mechanical Engineer, and Rey Minnich, an Electrical Engineer, went into business together to build and supply better equipment to the cast urethane process industry. Together they formed Advanced Machine Planning, Inc. (AMP, Inc.) in the basement of Hank's house in Piscataway, New Jersey. After several months setting up the business, they designed and shipped an on-demand MOCA curative melter for cast urethane processing.

1970s

In 1972, the first Flying Wedge, a two-component cast urethane meter-mix-dispense machine with wedge-driven piston metering pumps, was built and delivered. Several more piston pump shot machines, plus heated, agitated, vacuum degassing tanks and larger on-demand MOCA melters soon followed. At this time the company began to expand and hire design engineers, machinists, assembly workers, salesmen and technicians. In the summer of 1975, AMP moved into its own new building in Middlesex, New Jersey. Epoxy vacuum potting and encapsulating systems were added to its line of products. AMP’s Wedge metering and mixing machines now included the ability to process abrasive-filled epoxies inside manually-operated air-free vacuum chambers for high vacuum potting and encapsulating electrical and electronic components. These vacuum potting applications for the Wedge machines included high-voltage automotive ignition coils, cable end connectors and other electronic components.

1980s

Continuous Thin-Film Resin Degassers were added to AMP’s line of reactive resin process equipment. These continuous degassers supplied air-free resin at high output flow rates while maintaining constant vacuum on the resin materials.

1986

The name Advanced Process Technology, Inc. was born, and this new arm of the company was dedicated to the manufacture and sale of cast urethane and epoxy process equipment. In 1986, the Wedge machine was employed in a wet filament winding process to produce large epoxy-composite solid rocket booster cases for the space shuttle program.

1990s

Digital programmable logic controllers, servomotor drives and servo amplifiers became integral components of APT’s first continuous, multiple-component, rotary gear pump machine. This SRD-Series servomotor-controlled metering and mixing equipment was designed to dispense unfilled mixed resins continuously and also in shots. The SRD-Series was followed with the ECS-Series. The ECS-Series included digital, linear, servomotor-controlled piston metering pumps, which allowed processors to digitally preset critical process controls for resin metering, mixing and dispensing with abrasive powder-filled resins. Coriolis mass flow meters and electro-mechanical flow meters were added to APT’s epoxy and cast urethane metering and mixing equipment. These flow meters were added in-line between the metering pumps and the mixer to provide ratio monitoring, automatic ratio correction, closed-loop feedback ratio control, plus real-time quality control.

2000s

APT introduced advanced epoxy composite RTM equipment and VARTM equipment. New digital controls provided automatic vacuum level control at the mold and digitally-preset control of mixed material output pressure into assembled RTM and VARTM molds. These new equipment features helped APT to provide composite manufacturers with new and improved process control methods for infusing and injecting composite preforms with near zero void content.

2011

Epoxy vacuum potted Magnetic Resonance Imaging equipment with super-conducting magnets and gradient coils require high-vacuum potting and encapsulation inside vacuum chambers with consistent air-bubble-free epoxy. To meet this unique requirement, APT provided MRI equipment manufacturers with high-output, custom-built, SRD and ECS-Series, epoxy metering, mixing and vacuum casting equipment. Continuous flow-through vacuum chambers with conveyors and automatic sliding-gate vacuum-tight doors were added to APT’s existing line of manual single-box and automatic dual-box elevator vacuum chambers.

Industries Served

APT designs and manufactures high-quality reactive resin processing equipment to meet a wide assortment of complex resin process requirements. Markets served include advanced composites, aerospace, automotive, wind turbine blades, electric, medical, printing, electric power transmission, oil drilling, marine and recreational.

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