Cytec Industries, the specialty materials and chemical technologies company, will be exhibiting at JEC Americas 2014, Atlanta, GA, from 13-15 May, showcasing its latest technology portfolio developments.

Cytec will be exhibiting one of Team USA’s Olympic Skeleton manufactured by Debotech using Cytec Industrial Materials’ MTM series fabric and UD carbon fibre lightweight prepregs and compatible vacuum bagging consumables.

Debotech also manufactured Team USA’s bobsleds, used by athletes at the recent 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Increased flexibility

During the exhibition, visitors will have a chance to learn more about how Cytec’s state-of-the-art prepreg, resin system and adhesive technologies reduce weight and enable affordability in extreme demand applications.

Cytec will feature CYCOM and MTM out-of-autoclave products and PRISM resin infusion products for aerospace applications.

These products are designed to support industry requirements for increased flexibility and processing composites for complex aerospace structures. Also featured are the SurfaceMaster advanced surfacing films and the BR water-based primers.

Automotive market

Cytec will also be promoting new products and accompanying technologies for the Serial Automotive market.

XMTR50, the company’s new, two part component epoxy resin system, was developed specifically for the high rate manufacture of components using a High Pressure Resin Transfer Moulding (HP-RTM) process, which aims to enable the manufacture of components in three minutes at 120° C for a 135° C Tg.

MTM 23, the industry's first application of a volatile-organic compound (VOC)-free thermoset vinyl hybrid resin woven glass reinforced prepreg, is said to enable the manufacture of parts by press moulding in five minutes or less.

Expansion plans

Cytec’s automation manufacturing technology developments demonstrate the cost effectiveness of serial automotive manufacturing through a repeatable and robust automation process while using rapid cure materials, the company reports.

These new automotive focused products come at a time when Cytec is preparing a multi-million dollar investment to expand its Applications Centre, based in Heanor, UK, to support the company’s work in collaborating with the OEMs and their supply chains in the development of novel materials, design and processing technologies.

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