HexForce_Reinforcements_and_HexPly_Prepregs_for_Industrial

Product catalog summary

Overview: This document serves as an industrial selector guide for Hexcel's advanced composite materials, showcasing products like HexPly® Prepregs, Magnamite® Carbon Fibre, and HexWeb® Honeycomb. It emphasizes Hexcel's expertise in high-performance materials across various industries.

Key Products and Features:

HexPly® Prepregs: Resin matrix systems reinforced with fibers such as carbon, glass, and aramid, known for durability, temperature resistance, and lightweight properties, applicable in transport, sports, and energy sectors.
HexTOOL® Tooling Material: A patented composite material combining metal accuracy with carbon fiber lightness, cost-effective and repairable, ideal for large-scale tools.
HexMC® Moulding Concept: High-performance sheet molding material for complex shapes, suitable for sports, automotive, and marine applications.
HexForce® Reinforcements: Woven and multiaxial reinforcements in glass, carbon, and aramid fibers, providing multi-directional strength and stiffness.
PrimeTex® Reinforcements: Carbon fabrics with a smooth, uniform appearance, used in automotive, recreational, and aerospace sectors.

Technical Specifications:

Prepreg Matrix Properties: Supports fibers, bonds them, and offers environmental resistance, with chemistries like Epoxy, Phenolic, and BMI, varying in curing temperatures and fire resistance.
Fibre Properties: Provide mechanical performance, including stiffness and strength, with weight savings over metals.

Applications and Innovations: Hexcel's materials are utilized in automotive, marine, rail, and aerospace markets, with innovations in racing yachts, luxury cars, and sports equipment. The focus is on transport, sports, energy, machinery, and tooling.

Support and Contact: Hexcel offers global technical support and training for composite technology users. Contact at [email protected] for inquiries.

Specifications: Details on composite materials include weight (gsm), weave style (e.g., satin, plain, twill), fiber count, reinforcement yarn types, and thickness (mm). Example: 4H satin weave with 90 gsm weight, warp fiber count of 10, and weft fiber count of 19.

Materials and Weaves: Categorized by weave styles like UD satin, plain, twill, and special weaves, with specific material composition and use details.

Reinforcement Yarns: Includes yarns like EC9, HM2400, and PA66, contributing to strength and durability.

Contact Information: Lists Hexcel's global offices in countries like Australia, Germany, USA, Japan, and more, essential for customer inquiries and orders.

Disclaimer: Information is accurate at printing but users should verify its suitability for specific needs.

Catalog excerpts

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HexPly ® Prepregs Industrial Selector Guide Peel ply REDUX HexFlow® Liquid Resins Reinforcements He Liq L L H L

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About HEXCEL of carbon fibre; the world's largest weaver of structural materials such as prepregs, integrated supplier material sdutions.This means that we can offer enhanced technology function worldwide with a highly materials science, textiles, process engineering With in-house weaving brand name - Hexcel provides customers with composite solutions. support team is on hand to assist with material selection, processing, composites technology. Hexcel innovations have supported a wide range of industrial markets over the years, with successes such as supplying racing yachts and luxury cars, entering...

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PrimeTex® Range PrimeTex® Applications With 3K fibre, from 160 to 245 gsm With 6K fibre, from 285 to 370 gsm With 12K fibre, from 193 to 400 gsm fibres, please contact Hexcel: • Automotive cosmetic applications • Recreational (rowing boats, bicycles) and marine (hulls & spars) • Industrial Machinery • Aerospace thin laminates and sandwich What are the different fabric styles? The fabrics consist of at least two threads which are woven together : the warp and the weft. The weave style can be varied according to crimp and drapeability. Low crimp gives better mechanical performance because straighter...

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Sports Equipment Alternative Energy

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HexPly® Matrix HexPly® product data Rail, Civil Engineering HexTOOL® Tooling Material HexTOOL® product data HexMC® Moulding Concept HexMC® product data * HigherTg can be obtained with post cure cycle ** Plus post cure

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The information contained herein is believed to be the best available at the time of printing but is given without acceptance of liability, whether expressed or implied, for loss or damage attributable to reliance thereon. Users should make their own assessment of the technology's suitability for their own conditions of use and, before making any commitment with regard to the information given, should check that it has not been superseded.

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For further information, please contact your nearest sales office, or visit our website at www.hexcel.com 4F Yokohama YS Nishiguchi Bldg Russian Federation Wisma Samudra, Hicom - Glenmarie Industrial Park, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Conference & Exhibition Polig. Ind, «Ciudad de Parla» United Kingdom Ickleton Road, Duxford, Cam-

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