The IBA Easy‐E‐Beam™ Integrated Processing System

IBA Industrial Inc., (formerly known as Radiation Dynamics, Inc.) has been making high‐energy and medium‐energy, direct‐current proton and electron accelerators for research and industrial applications for many years. Some industrial applications of high‐power electron accelerators are the crosslinking of polymeric materials and products, such as the insulation on electrical wires, multi‐conductor cable jackets, heat‐shrinkable plastic tubing and film, plastic pipe, foam and pellets, the partial curing of rubber sheet for automobile tire components, and the sterilization of disposable medical devices. The curing (polymerization and crosslinking) of carbon and glass fiber‐reinforced composite plastic parts, the preservation of foods and the treatment of waste materials are attractive possibilities for future applications. With electron energies above 1.0 MeV, the radiation protection for operating personnel is usually provided by surrounding the accelerator facility with thick concrete walls. With lower en...