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Cytec Industries to show new composites at Europe expo

23 Sep '15

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Cytec Industries Inc., providers of advanced composite and process materials for aerospace, automotive, wind energy, motorsport, marine, mass transportation, and other demanding applications, will be demonstrating new high performance materials and process technologies at the Composites Europe trade fair and forum to be held from September 22 to 24, 2015, in Stuttgart, Germany, at Hall 5, stand F16.

At the show, Cytec will be showcasing its broad portfolio and latest advances in high-performance, cost-effective composite technologies for the automotive industry, for creating lighter, more fuel-efficient, and safer vehicles.

Visitors to the Cytec stand will be able to see a number of exhibits that include a carbon fibre reinforced door inner structure, manufactured from a filament wound flat blank using hot compression moulding technology. Filament winding is a flexible and efficient process for making flat prepreg blanks of variable thickness. The material offers high conformability required for complex shapes, combined with mechanical properties comparable to conventional prepregs.

A carbon-fibre reinforced tailgate manufactured from Cytec's new rapid cure epoxy prepreg MTM 710 and with sub three minute cure capability by hot compression moulding would also be present. A complex part manufactured from uni-directional carbon fibre, utilising an innovative automated preforming process will be a part of the expo.

A HP-RTM demonstrator part made using Cytec's XMTR750 two-component epoxy resin, with a sub 3-minute cure capability, a mould temperature of 130°C and with a resin injection time of less than 12 seconds will be displayed, according to a press release.

Cytec will also showcase its innovative DForm Fabric Tooling prepreg, which was launched earlier this year. Cytec believes DForm will transform composite tooling manufacture by reducing tool layup times by 75 per cent, and making composite tooling more competitive than ever against metal tooling.

The company will promote its added value kitting services, now offered out of its new Toulouse, France site. The facility has the capacity needed for the manufacture of large vacuum bagging consumable kits for applications such as aircraft wings or wind turbine blades. (GK)

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