Multiple benefits from a single material
Our advanced materials are designed to overcome several challenges in composites using a single material. Their highly porous structure enables enhanced resin uptake and transportation, aiding fabrication and lowering resin usage. While the consistent, even fibre distribution of the veil enables a high quality, resin rich surface finish, reducing print though and processing. The veils are lightweight and available in a wide range of fibre types to confer additional functionality.
Typical examples are:
EMI SHIELDING
Metal coated carbon fibres which impart EMI shielding for battery and electronics enclosures, as well as conductivity for resistive heating applications.
Aramid fibres to improve surface abrasion resistance for friction substrates in automotive, sporting goods and roll covers.
CORROSION RESISTANCE
Glass and carbon fibres can provide a corrosion resistant surface for industrial applications as well as managing static dissipation.
ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY
Dielectric veils provide electrically isolating layers between dissimilar conductive materials, which prevent pitting and potential structural failure that can be induced by the electrochemical reaction that causes galvanic corrosion.
FRACTURE TOUGHNESS
As well as surfacing applications our veils can also increase the longevity of the composite; interleaving our thermoplastic veils between reinforcement layers can improve the mode-I and mode-II interlaminar fracture toughness of the structure by up to 400%
FIRE PROTECTION
Tecnofire®, our range of lightweight intumescent fire protection materials enables composites to pass stringent reaction to fire and fire resistance test standards and have been used extensively in applications such as infrastructure, construction, mass transport and aerospace.