One-stop distributor targets greater composite products, services breadth

Pacific Coast Composites (PCC, Puyallup, Wash., U.S.), a GracoRoberts (Arlington, Texas, U.S.) company, offers more than 400 stock composite products and same-day shipping options for long lead-time film materials, an offering for GracoRoberts composites customers.

A distributor for 3M, Hexcel, Aerovac and Isovolta, PCC offers adhesives, prepregs, resins, honeycomb core and more. The business is centered on providing customers with smaller, customized composites material sizes. PCC features spec-driven in-house converting, and offers custom kitting and slitting capabilities, reporting rapid turnaround and same-day shipping on made-to-order composite materials. PCC’s pre-cut composite rolls are available in 5, 10, 15 and 20-yard rolls, with other custom sizing options available.

Moreover, through GracoRoberts, PCC is now able to offer a larger portfolio of products, enabling customers to shop for specialty chemicals and consumable products from 1,000 trusted brands in one place with pricing benefits, thanks to GracoRoberts’ Authorized Distribution rights for more than 30 flagship suppliers. Added value services including specialty packaging, VMI and Intermix paint services. Additionally, PCC customers have access to the Resin Formulators epoxy resin line of products from GracoRoberts’ manufacturing division.

Resin Formulators, joining PCC at CAMX, offers more than 500 off-the-shelf epoxy products and provides custom formulation and modification services. A laboratory, advanced chemical testing, small-batch capabilities and specialty packaging enable Resin Formulators to deliver high-quality and cost-effective solutions for composites manufacturing. Product types include adhesives, encapsulants, sealants, potting compounds, syntactics and more.

GracoRoberts is a specialty chemicals distributor serving the global aerospace market. The company is AS- and ISO-certified and authorized to distribute 3M, Airtech, AeroShell, AkzoNobel, Castrol, Eastman, Henkel, Hexcel, Huntsman, Isovolta, ITW Polymers, Mask-Off, Momentive, Resin Formulators, Scott Bader, Sika and Zip-Chem; it can source other providers upon request. Its e-commerce website, www.GracoRoberts.com, in addition to product offerings, provides technical account managers for personalized consultative support.