Unlock Success with Laird’s Advanced Materials and ABLE’s Custom Converting Solutions

The partnership between ABLE and Laird represents a fusion of expertise and commitment to revolutionize products for diverse applications. As a leading converting contractor, ABLE specializes in custom converting solutions that integrate innovation, expertise and quality, aiming to deliver high-performance products that not only meet but surpass customer expectations. With our collaboration with Laird, a renowned company in providing cutting-edge thermal management and EMI shielding solutions complements ABLE’s commitment to customer satisfaction, promising customized and innovative solutions for diverse industry needs.

Laird’s Cutting-Edge Materials for Thermal Management and Shielding Solutions

Thermal Management Solutions

Laird’s Thermal Management Solutions offer a diverse range of Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) meticulously engineered to dissipate heat effectively in electronic components. These TIMs are each tailored to specific heat dissipation requirements. Laird’s innovative solutions ensure optimal thermal conductivity, reliability, and ease of use, addressing the evolving needs of various industries.

Thermal Interface Materials offered by Laird

• Gap Fillers: These materials bridge interfaces between components and heat sink assemblies, enhancing overall heat transfer efficiency.
• Grease: Laird offers high-performance thermal greases designed to achieve optimal thermal conductivity while being easily dispensed and screen printed.
• Liquid Gap Fillers: These one- and two-part liquid gap fillers fill large and uneven gaps between hot components and heat sink assemblies, facilitating efficient heat transfer.
• Phase Change Materials: Laird’s phase change materials leverage latent heat of fusion to absorb and dissipate heat effectively, offering high reliability and ease of use.
• Specialty TIMs: Laird provides specialty Thermal Interface Materials tailored to meet unique application requirements, ensuring optimal thermal management solutions.
• Tape and Adhesive: Thermally conductive tapes and adhesives offer excellent thermal transfer properties, bonding heat sinks to heat-generating components effectively.
• Thermally Conductive Insulators: Laird’s Tgard thermally conductive electrical insulators provide reliable electrical isolation coupled with superior thermal conductivity.
• Tlam Thermally Conductive PCB System: This unique cooling solution provides thermal dissipation directly through the PCB, eliminating the need for secondary thermal management components.

EMI Shielding Solutions

Laird’s EMI Shielding Solutions provide comprehensive protection against electromagnetic interference (EMI), ensuring the reliability and performance of electronic devices. These solutions are meticulously engineered to lower stray EMI levels effectively. With a focus on versatility and durability, Laird’s EMI shielding materials are designed to withstand fluctuating weather conditions, operating temperatures, and exposure to chemicals.

EMI Shielding Materials offered by Laird

• Fingerstock metal gaskets: Laird’s fingerstock gaskets offer reliable grounding and shielding in high-frequency equipment, ensuring effective EMI suppression.
• Grounding contacts: Designed to establish a ground path back to a metal enclosure or other grounding point, Laird’s grounding contacts help mitigate EMI issues in electronic systems.
• EMI conductive tapes and adhesives: These materials offer excellent EMI shielding solutions.  Their highly conductive tapes, fabrics, and adhesives, equipped with a conductive PSA, offer outstanding EMI shielding, grounding, and flexibility.
• Board level shielding: Laird offers shielding solutions specifically designed for isolating board-level components from electromagnetic interference, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Form-in-place gaskets and sealers: These materials provide custom-fit EMI shielding and environmental sealing, offering enhanced protection for sensitive electronic equipment.
• Conductive foam gaskets: Laird’s conductive foam gaskets offer effective EMI shielding while accommodating surface irregularities and providing environmental sealing.
• Fabric-over-foam gaskets: These gaskets combine the flexibility of foam with the shielding properties of fabric, offering soft and durable EMI shielding solutions.
• Vent Panels: Panels such as MaxAir and Electrovent are EMI/dust filtration panels made to efficiently block electromagnetic interference (EMI) while also absorbing contaminants in the air, providing consistent protection without compromising ventilation or airflow.
• Electrically Conductive Elastomers: These materials are engineered to offer excellent mechanical performance, environmental sealing, and electromagnetic shielding, ensuring your enclosures get the highest possible protection and the best electrical performance.

Unlocking Versatility: Laird’s Advanced Materials for Diverse Applications

Laird’s diverse applications encompass a wide range of industries, where their thermal management and EMI shielding solutions play a crucial role in ensuring optimal performance and reliability of electronic devices. 

Automotive: Laird’s solutions are utilized to enhance the thermal performance of automotive electronics, battery systems, and LED lighting applications, ensuring reliability in the demanding automotive environment.

Telecommunications: Laird’s products contribute to improving the reliability and efficiency of telecommunications equipment, including base stations and data centers, where maintaining stable operation is essential.

Consumer Electronics: Laird’s thermal management solutions help keep consumer electronics such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and gaming consoles cool and reliable, ensuring prolonged device lifespan and performance.

Industrial: Laird’s products play a vital role in industrial machinery, power electronics, and LED lighting fixtures, ensuring optimal operation even in harsh industrial environments.

Medical: Laird’s thermal management solutions safeguard the performance of medical devices and equipment, ensuring reliability and accuracy in critical healthcare applications.

Aerospace and Defense: Laird’s solutions are critical for meeting the rigorous thermal requirements of aerospace and defense applications, including fighter jets, missile systems, UAVs, satellites, and more, ensuring optimal performance and reliability even in extreme conditions.

ABLE Converting and Laird’s Partnership Bring Projects to the Next Level

The partnership between ABLE and Laird represents a strategic alliance aimed at delivering comprehensive solutions to meet the diverse needs of industries. ABLE, a leading custom converting solutions company, brings its expertise in providing high-quality products through its diverse capabilities such as precision die-cutting, laminating, slitting and custom assembly services. While Laird, renowned for its proficiency in thermal management and EMI shielding, offers cutting-edge solutions that bring every project to the next level. By using our combined strengths, ABLE and Laird can address the evolving challenges faced by electronic systems, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and compliance with industry standards.

Get in touch with us now to discover how Laird’s cutting-edge materials and ABLE’s converting expertise help you achieve success in your industry.

References:

https://www.laird.com/products/thermal-interface-materials
https://able123converting.com/blog/laird-highlighting-world-class-emi-shielding-capabilities/