Tailor-made prepreg stacks by Gurit and Voith
Carbon4Stack for an easier, faster, flexible processing of prepregs
- Design freedom for high performance structural parts
- Broad range of surface solutions
- Various resin systems and fibers fit to purpose
- Ready to mould solution
- Significant time savings in autoclave operations
- Tailored prepreg blanks
A solution making composites production easier and broadens its range of applications.
Our tailored stacks are made of pre-impregnated 50mm-wide UD tapes. Each tape is automatically placed using VRA technology, creating the desired layup. The final stacks are multi-ply laminates with variable thicknesses and local reinforcements, manufactured in near net shape to provide the ideal solution for the customer.
Tailored stacks
- Reduced manual processes: automated fiber placement with reproducibility of the laminate quality
- Maximum freedom in fiber orientation: from 0° to 90°, based on customer requirements
- Cost savings: no labor-intensive operations, reduction of waste with near net shape fiber placement
- Weight savings: local reinforcement layers allow load-specific material usage. Material is only applied where necessary
- Best fiber performance: non-crimped and non-stitched fiber placement
- Online process control and quality assessment
Customized material setup
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Resin system: formulated according to customer requirements. Glass transition temperatures up to 208 °C are available
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Fiber: different grades of carbon fiber and glass fiber can be used in the production of the stack to adjust the characteristics of the components
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Variable tack (low and high)
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Pre-cut to final shape
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Hybrid material configuration: customized material combinations of glass and carbon fiber in one single tailored stack possible
Manufacturing processes
Tailored stacks can be impregnated with different solvent free hot-melt resin systems suitable for:
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Prepreg compression moulding
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Autoclave processing
- Out of autoclave
- Automated as well as manual handling
Sizes and availability
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Max. size of the stack 1 600 mm x 1 800 mm
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Variable thickness
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Flexible production of high and low quantities from prototype phase to serial production
Storage
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Tailored stacks are delivered with a smooth film on the lower side and a diamond embossed film on the top side
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Storage in sealed vacuum bag at -18 °C
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Out life at 21 °C: 7 – 50 days, depending on required processing properties of the tailored stack
Technical product support
- On site support for manufacturing process
- Layup and draping simulation
- ayup and draping simulatio
- Cost and feasibility studies
Certifications
- Compliant to UL 94v0, EN 45545, EN 13501 and SOLAS IMO FTP code
- Qualified to Lloyd‘s Register and DNV-GL
- Several aerospace certifications
- ISO 9001, ISO 9100
- ISO 14001
- REACH compliant
Typical stack solutions
Various fields of applications in Automotive, Aerospace, Marine and many other industrial applications:
| Application | Processing method | Tg1 (DSC) [°C] | Cure cycles | Shelf-life RT [days] | Shelf-life -18 °C [months] | Fibre type |
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| High volume Class A | PCM | 180 | 5 min at 170 °C | 28 | 18 | E-Glass Carbon |
| Class A | PCM Autoclave | 140 | 10 min at 135 °C | 56 | 12 | E-Glass Carbon |
| Visual carbon | PCM Autoclave | 130 | 30 min at 130°C | 21 | 12 | E-Glass Carbon |
| Visual carbon high TG | PCM Autoclave | 170 | 30 min at 180°C | 21 | 18 | E-Glass Carbon |
| FST | PCM Autoclave OoA | 130 | 60 min at 120°C | 30 | 18 | E-Glass Carbon |
| Structural | PCM Autoclave OoA | 125 | 35 min at 120°C | 30 | 18 | E-Glass Carbon |
| Tooling | Autoclave | 208 | 6 h at 60 °C + postcuring cycle | 3 (tack-life) | 6 | E-Glass Carbon |
PCM Prepreg compression moulding
OoA Out of autoclave
FST Fire smoke toxicity
HRR Heat release rate
“I’m very happy that we could win Gurit as a partner. Their broad product range and their expertise as well as their flexibility and high motivation to move this project forward have given us a real boost.”
“The Voith Roving Applicator NextGen can move composites to the next level. It’s a great way to process our material – flexible, automated and leading to an impressively high quality. Our pilot customers are delighted and so are we.”
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Gurit Group
Piet Heydorn
Regional Sales Manager & Technical Sales
Europe
M + 49 162 2434 968
www.gurit.com