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Hexcel Composites Ltd • Duxford, Cambridge CB22 4QD, United Kingdom • Telephone +44 (0)1223 833141

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Hexcel was presented with the JEC Innovation Award for Aerospace at JEC Europe 2015, accompanied by award partners Stelia Aerospace, Coriolis Composites and CompositeAdour. The four companies collaborated on the design, manufacture and testing of a self-stiffened fuselage panel demonstrator made with Hexcel's HiTape®. The panel demonstrates that HiTape® meets the performance requirements for aircraft primary structures, including damage tolerance.

HiTape® advanced dry carbon fiber reinforcements are designed for the automated manufacture of preforms at very high deposition rates. The preforms are infused with Hexcel's HexFlow® RTM6 resin in a cost-efficient out of autoclave process. Parts produced with HiTape® reinforcements and Hexcel's HexFlow® infusion resins can be up to 30mm thick with a 58 to 60% fiber volume content, resulting in mechanical properties that are as high as those achieved with primary structure prepregs.



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Hexcel Corporation is a leading advanced composites company. It develops, manufactures and markets lightweight, high-performance structural materials, including carbon fibers, reinforcements, prepregs, honeycomb, matrix systems, adhesives and composite structures, used in commercial aerospace, space and defense and industrial applications.

Hexcel Media Contact:
Rachel Owen
Director, Marketing Communications
+44 (0)1223 838370
rachel.owen@hexcel.com

31 March 2015

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