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XF3 prevents print-through and provides a Class-A surface finish with excellent resistance to aging tests.":1,"#Hexcel offers a highly innovative range of multiaxial fabrics under the trade name HiMax™. Working together with the customer, Hexcel can provide personalized fabrics for complexities of final parts, different processes, and fiber requirements. This,in turn, has a potential to reduce fabric cost and process time, while still providing an appropriate NCF for each customer.":1,"#about the Prepreg Preforms for Compression Molding product":1,"#Open":1,"#to Website":1,"#to dBase":1,"#Page Edits":1,"#HexPly M901 - High Tg Epoxy Resin Matrix for Prepregs":1,"#Car Front":1,"#in Admin":1,"#Publish":1,"#Cosmetic parts made from Hexcel fabric/NCF solutions are widely used by OEMs (e.g. BMW M-series roof)":1,"#HexPly® M49 prepreg offers excellent resin transparency and UV stability. It is a high tack system to allow for easy manual preforming. In case of high mechanical requirements on visual parts HexPly® M49 can be combined with high temperature-resistant HexPly® M81 prepreg as backing plies.":1,"#To enable consumer processing of carbon fiber, proprietary sizing agents are typically applied by Hexcel, such as G, GP, and GS Sizes. It has been found that the original processing characteristics of G Sized carbon fiber will essentially remain constant for at least one year from the date of manufacture while GP and GS Sized carbon fibers will essentially remain constant for at least five years from date of manufacture.":1,"#HexPly M49 - 120°C curing epoxy matrix":1,"#Tow Tensile Elongation":1,"#Fiber Density":1,"#In addition, Hexcel offers NCF fabrics for class-A solutions within the HiMax™ range with tailored stitching and ply layup for surface flatness. A range of stitch patterns and yarn colours allows customers to display the stitched NCF on final parts, if desired.":1,"#If carbon fiber is stored at high temperatures and/or high humidity conditions, or for timeframes in excess of those recommended above, difficulty in processing may result. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that carbon fiber which has stiffened as a result of extended storage should undergo a thorough evaluation of processing characteristics (i.e. resin wet out, spreadability, etc.) relative to the customer’s operation before use.":1,"#Tow Tensile Strength":1,"#Available Continuous Carbon Fiber Sizes":1,"#As the use of carbon fiber composites grows, the industry must focus on end-of-life technologies for composites. Economic recycling, reclamation and reprocessing techniques are showing great promise for carbon fiber. Methods now exist to separate the carbon fiber from the matrix with little degradation and to repurpose them into a wide variety of applications. Continued advancement in composite recycling will be essential to ensure continued competitiveness with traditional metals and plastics going forward.":1,"#Below are inherent properties of Hexcel’s unsized carbon fiber which have an undetermined shelf life":1,"#Manufacturers including Hexcel continue to innovate and build product portfolios based on carbon fiber production. Carbon fibers are now available across the full range of performance from standard modulus fibers (33 Msi), intermediate modulus fibers (42 Msi) and high modulus fibers (>50 Msi), with a range of tensile strengths from 500 ksi to > 1000 ksi. Carbon fibers are also available in a range of tow sizes (the number of filaments in the yarn bundle), ranging from 1K filaments to 320K filaments.":1,"#Tow Tensile Modulus":1,"#Mass per Unit Length (yield)":1,"#Hexcel is proud to have been an important part of the early development and commercialization of carbon fibers. We also have technologies, products and value-added processes for carbon fiber including weaving, non-crimp fabrics, prepregs, and additive manufacturing materials. We have manufacturing scale and installed capacity to meet the needs of the industry going forward. And we will continue to be an industry leader in carbon fibers with a broad product portfolio and an unrivaled range of product offerings that deliver excellent performance across many aerospace and industrial applications":1,"#Carbon fiber is an enabling material that has seen dramatic growth and adoption across a wide range of commercial applications since it became a truly industrialized material in the early 1970s. It is an exciting material as it offers performance improvements, dramatic weight savings, thermal expansion control, stiffness, stealth possibilities, fatigue resistance and other unique properties. The types and forms of carbon fiber available must be understood when selecting the appropriate fiber for each application.":1,"#Commercial adoption of carbon fiber-reinforced composites began to accelerate in the late 1970s and early 1980s with applications in military and commercial aircraft as well as recreational products such as golf club shafts and tennis rackets. The cost/benefit trade-off has been a challenge for carbon fibers since their introduction. In the early days, aircraft designers were eager to gain the weight-savings benefits of carbon fiber composites but were working with composites as “black aluminum,” and the relative higher cost of carbon fiber versus aluminum limited its adoption in commercial aerospace. Military aircraft and weapon systems as well as recreational products led the growth in demand for carbon fiber while commercial aerospace continued its understanding of the true benefits composites could deliver. With the innovative use of carbon fiber composites on the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, carbon fiber composites have become an enabling technology for the most advanced commercial aircraft.":1,"#Continuing research and development on these novel carbon fiber materials in the years that followed led to the innovations that we see today. Carbon fibers from all three precursor types are commercially available today but PAN dominates with well over 90% of carbon fibers being produced from this precursor.":1,"#Advancements":1,"#Composite parts producers now have a wide range of carbon fiber performance and product forms from which to choose. Advanced composite part manufacturing has matured in recent years, moving from hand layup of carbon prepregs to a number of automated and rapid production processes. The cost of manufacturing carbon fibers has declined over the years as the development of cost-effective manufacturing techniques for carbon composites has increased, leading to the broad adoption of advanced composites.":1,"#Edit":1,"#In the early 1970s, it was discovered that heating pitch (petroleum or coal based) would produce a high carbon organic precursor that could be used to produce carbon fibers. Pitch-based carbon fibers deliver superior modulus and thermal conductivity but come up short in tensile strength and compression strength as compared to PAN-based carbon fiber.":1,"#Tom Haulik is the Sales Director for Global Carbon Fibers at Hexcel. He has 40 years of experience in the carbon fibers industry having held various positions in sales and marketing throughout his career. He is active in industry organizations and is currently a Trustee and member of the Board of Directors at SAMPE (Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering) where he previously served as International President. He is active in CAMX, ACMA, NCTO and other industry organizations. He earned a degree in industrial engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.":1,"#The Future":1,"#Commercially available carbon fibers are based on one of three precursor materials -- rayon, PAN (polyacrylonitrile) and pitch. Early research in each of these carbon fiber types dates back to the late 1950s. Rayon, converted into a carbon fiber, was found to deliver the strongest and stiffest material for its weight that had ever been produced. By 1963, Curry Ford and Charles Mitchell were granted a patent for making fibers and cloths by heat treating rayon to temperatures up to 3000 °C. These were the strongest carbon fibers commercially produced to date and led to the entry of carbon fibers into the “advanced composites” industry. Research in converting more efficient precursors was occurring simultaneously in both Japan and the U.K. Akio Shindo of the Government Industrial Research Institute in Osaka, Japan made fibers in his lab with a modulus of more than 140 GPa, about three times that of the rayon-based fibers produced in the U.S. In 1963, scientists in the U.K. also patented the process for producing even higher modulus PAN-based carbon fibers. The secret behind these quickly improving carbon fibers was the access to pure PAN which is the polymeric backbone that provided an excellent yield after processing.":1,"#Commercial Use":1,"#Carbon Building Block":1,"#By: Tom Haulik":1,"#about the HexPly® Snap Cure product":1,"#HiTape® Reinforcements":1,"#Cancel":1,"#HexPly® M91 Prepreg":1,"#Early Career Program":1,"#Resin transfer molding (RTM)":1,"#Autoclave":1,"#Composite Properties":1,"#Compression molding":1,"#Listen to the podcast here.":1,"#about the PrimeTex® product":1,"#Episode 26 of the CompositesWorld podcast features an interview with Hexcel’s Director of Sales & Marketing for Automotive, Achim Fischereder. Mr. Fischereder discusses Hexcel’s products and technologies that were developed specifically for automotive applications. 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