Composites technology company Cygnet Texkimp (Cheshire, U.K.) has built a production-scale, high-precision slitter spooler rewinder machine for industry trials at its U.K.-based Innovation Centre. The ...

Chopped prepreg molding compound (CPMC), a relatively new material form resembling molding compounds made from chopped resin impregnated tow, provides design and processing engineers various benefits ...

NIAR selected Composite Automation and Mikrosam to deliver a single-step slitting unit to facilitate its need to perform research on variety of composite prepregs in the Advanced Technologies ...

Prepregs are composite materials in which a reinforcement fiber is pre-impregnated with a thermoplastic or thermoset resin matrix in a certain ratio. Prepregs have unique properties as they are cured ...

The technology has been developed to slit and wind continuous thermoset UD (unidirectional) carbon fibre prepreg into tapes, although it is compatible with many other materials. It is expected to ...