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Aramid Composite Compression Molding
Who presses my fiber charge between matched heated dies, and what press tonnage and part size can they run?
What it is
Consolidating chopped or continuous fiber charge between matched heated dies under press force. Fast cycle times suit volume production of smaller parts.
Suppliers
Suppliers 3
Companies that perform this process on customer material.
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ACP Composites VerifiedAS91005 ft x 10 ft press platen
Compression moulding of aramid fabric on the laminating presses. No ballistic qualification is claimed.
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CTL Aerospace, Inc. VerifiedAS9100NADCAP CompositesNADCAP Materials Testing Laboratories
Kevlar is named explicitly among the fibres worked, in epoxy, polyurethane, BMI and polyimide systems. CTL works silica and quartz as well as carbon, glass and Kevlar, which points at radome and thermal protection work rather than general airframe structure. AS9100D and ITAR compliant; the NADCAP scope is stated only as a 'compliant captive laboratory'. Confirm it. No autoclave dimensions or part size limits are published.
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Integris Composites Reported
High-pressure pressing at the Hebron, Ohio site. Recorded at medium: the capabilities page names the process but not the material, and the material link comes from this atlas's own verified record that Integris makes laminate panel in this fibre. Ballistic laminate is consolidated under heat and pressure, so this is the step that makes the panel.
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Input material
Forms this process takes in.