Araldite Highly Flexible Composite, HFC 

Every car manufacturer is looking for new materials that will enable them to make lighter weight cars with improved safety features at a lower cost. We have developed a new highly flexible composite, Araldite® HFC with outstanding flexibility and strength that will not shatter in an accident which will cut the cost of car panel production.

Last year it won two major awards at JEC Asia and Materialica, scoring best marks in the materials category for its outstanding flexibility and mechanical characteristics.

As a result of a unique thermosetting resin system, Araldite HFC has similar material characteristics to elastomers — excellent impact, abrasion and tear resistance with good elongation and tensile resistance — but is very different in terms of material and production time costs.

Only a few consumable materials are required — resin and fibre — and, most importantly, just a single shell mould is required for component production. As opposed to elastomers, where it is difficult to incorporate fabric re-inforcement, and the processing is complex and expensive, the processing of low viscosity Araldite Highly Flexible Composite is simple.

Standard, well established direct composite production processes such as wet-lay up and infusion can be used to produce parts from a single shell mould quickly and cost effectively.

The parts can then be cured for 24 hours at room temperature or in an oven for 1 hour at 60 ˚C and even faster at higher temperatures. Highly detailed parts can be rapidly produced using no specialist equipment and only a single mould.

Whatever your needs Mouldlife can offer systems suitable for a diverse range of applications:

• Epoxy
• Polyurethane
• Silicone 
• Acrylic  

For Tooling or Component, Resin Infusion or Wet lay-up, Carbon, Kevlar, Glass or Natural fibre reinforcements. We have a wide range of Compatible systems to choose from.

Mouldlife Ltd prides itself on supplying quality products with a strong Technical & Customer support reputation.

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