Carrier
Our lightweight carrier veils provide an effective support for adhesive films and fragile materials, ensuring uniform wet out and consistent film thickness, thereby enhancing the resilience and handling of the final product. Key benefits include minimal weight addition, improved resilience and handling, uniform adhesive wet out, and controlled adhesive thickness for a consistent bond line.
Properties
Carrier Veils
Lightweight and Uniform
Our lightweight nonwovens are used extensively across industry as a carrier or support structure for a fragile material, thus aiding in their processing. The veil's highly porous structure and even fibre distribution ensures that coatings, whether they are adhesive or MOFs, is both rapid and uniform, enabling improved production rates. The thickness of the coated film is determined by the veil. The exceptional uniformity of thickness of our carrier veils ensures that the bond-line is both defined and highly consistent, with veil areal weights as low as 2 g/m² available to ensure that thickness and weight is minimised. The use of James Cropper nonwoven veils as carrier materials increases the quality and consistency of the film, and the nonwoven architecture also improves the resilience and handling of the final product.
Fibre Type
Carbon, Glass, Fine Glass, Polyester, Fine Polyester
Properties
Consistent fibre distribution and uniform thickness
Areal Weights
2 - 200 g/m²
Reduce Weight
- Lightweight for minimum weight addition
- Areal weights from 2 g/m²
Faster Production Time
- Fast, even wet out of adhesive
- Minimises processing time
- Easy to handle
Quality
- Enables a thin, uniform bond line to ensure film consistency and quality
- Improved resilience and handling of film or fragile material
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Typical Applications
Primary & Secondary aerostructures
A lightweight carrier substrate for adhesive films which is used in the fabrication of composite aircraft. Veils are also used as a support for manufacturing techniques involving fragile materials such as tailored fibre placement.
eVTOL and drone parts
Established as an industry standard in aerospace our carrriers are equally suitable for AAM applications in the fabrication of eVTOL aircraft and drones.
Adhesives
Our veils are utilized as lightweight carrier substrates for adhesive films in the medical sector, enabling improved fabrication and film resilience.
Markets
We offer an extensive range of technical nonwovens, already qualified in aero composites and AS9100 certified, that can improve the appearance, function and ease of fabrication of AAM composites and solve a range of technical challenges faced in eVTOL aircraft and drone design. All our materials are designed specifically for use in composites, ensuring compatibility with all common resins and manufacturing techniques as well as ease of integration & use.
James Cropper Advanced Materials customers are among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world, including many Fortune 100 and 500 companies. Our portfolio of products are in use on most commercial aircraft, delivering surface finish solutions, improved processing, light weighting efficiency solutions, and more.
Our advanced materials are found in a number of medical applications, from wearables and adhesives to scanning machinery.