Composites specialist offers fiber handling, converting solutions
CAMX 2023: Visitors will have the opportunity to learn more about Cygnet Texkimp’s creels, filament winding, automation and handling, and recycling, with a special focus on web converting technologies.
Multi Roll Stack. Photo Credit: Cygnet Texkimp
Composites technology specialist and custom machine builder Cygnet Texkimp (Northwich, U.K.) is showcasing a complete range of fiber handling and converting solutions. This will include creels, filament winding, automation and handling, and recycling technologies for the composites industry, with a special focus on its web converting solutions, which include prepreg processing, coating, filming, laminating and slitting equipment.
“CAMX gives us an excellent platform to share our expertise with the North American market, and this year we’re putting a spotlight on our web converting capability,” Graeme Jones, Cygnet Texkimp’s web converting product director, says. “We’ll be highlighting how we use our extensive fiber handling expertise to develop machines that get the very best from the fiber in order to produce high-precision, lightweight composite materials and parts consistently and efficiently for all sectors from aerospace and automotive to energy and industrial.”
Among its technologies, visitors will have the opportunity to find out about the company’s Multi Roll Stack prepreg and towpreg processing machine which has been shortlisted for a CAMX Award. The short-footprint, energy-efficient machine delivers significant savings in terms of capital investment, running costs and energy requirements when compared to conventional prepreg processing and has been shown to achieve high-accuracy, low coat weight materials at market-leading rates.
Show delegates can also discover more about Cygnet Texkimp’s high-precision slitter spooler rewinder, which is being used in the aerospace and automotive industries, to slit and wind carbon fiber prepregs into high-accuracy tapes. The technology draws on Cygnet Texkimp’s experience in handling complex technical fibers to deliver slit tapes consistently and reliably with minimal fraying, stringers, debris or scrap and high levels of precision.
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