Epoxy

Epoxy

Epoxy is a common thermoset resin used to make composite materials. Epoxy resins are used in a wide range of composites parts, structures and concrete repairs. Major benefits of using epoxy include it ability to be tailored to different products, their low shrinkage, strong mechanical properties, resistance to corrosive liquids and environments, superior electrical properties, good performance at elevated temperatures, and good adhesion to substrates.

Hexcel and Secar Technologie GmbH Develop Audi R8 Carbon Fiber Engine Bay X-Brace

Hexcel’s HexMC®-i 2000 carbon fiber/epoxy molding compound has been used in a novel overmolding process to produce a hybrid structure combining Secar pullwound carbon fiber sections and Hexcel’s highly...

Making Waves in the Marine Market

Boat builders are experimenting with material combinations in closed mold processing. Boat builders around the world seem to be closing the mold, so to speak, making a move from open to closed mold processing...

Doing it Naturally

Composites made with bioresins and natural fibers have benefits beyond sustainability. Most people associate crops in farmers’ fields with food production. What they don’t realize is that those plants,...

Shifting Paradigms

Five innovative North American university R&D projects highlight composite materials as agents of change. Across the global composites industry, businesses are constantly searching for innovative ways to...

Vienna Researchers Develop Composite Curing Formula that Works Underwater

Researchers at Technische Universität Wien (TU-Wien) in Vienna, Austria, have developed a "special formula" that allows epoxy-based composites to cure underwater. The research group, headed up by Professor...

Portuguese Joint Venture Leads to Development of World’s Lightest Kayak

Last week, Portuguese graphene manufacturing company Graphenest and Sipre, a Portuguese kayak manufacturer, announced that they have produced what they believe to be the world's lightest surfski, which...