Composite Reinforcements

Composite Reinforcements Spectex personnel have worked in the composites industry for over 30 years. The specific area of expertise is in the manufacture of specialty textile fabrications including weaving, braiding, knitting, cutting and kitting and performing for applications such as resin transfer molding preforms. We have worked with carbon, glass, aramid and ceramic fibers. Capabilities include textile design as well as manufacturing for a wide range of applications and products. The most recent development is for a new textile product (patent pending). It can best be described as a continuous, helical fabric. In its simplest form, fibers are oriented in true hoop and radial directions. Intermediate radial fibers can be introduced to maintain consistent radial to hoop fiber fractions and part thickness from ID to OD. A wide range of design options are possible to tailor fiber distributions locally and/or intermittently.

3-D Weaving, 3-D Braiding Existing machinery is capable of producing straight (conventional 0 / 90) fabrics or helical fabrics as described above. In either case, the two directions of fibers do not interlace and therefore offer more efficient fiber property translation than is possible with conventional fabric designs. In other applications, customers have found several advantages including better design uniformity with the radial/hoop architecture, labor savings with the elimination of cutting gore patterns from conventional 0/90 fabrics to create a circular preform and reduced waste of expensive fiber materials.

We would like to know if you have product opportunities that could take advantage of the unique features that this material offers. We would appreciate any feedback that you might have.

Composite Reinforcements

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