Cygnet Texkimp invites prepreg industry to trial sub-10GSM coater

The coater is in the final stages of production at Cygnet Texkimp’s UK R&D headquarters where it will spend the next six months being commissioned for the purpose of trialling precision coating of epoxy resins. The machine is designed to create low area-weight films with a GSM of less than 10µm for the aerospace quality prepreg market.

“This is an impressive piece of kit capable of achieving exceptional levels of accuracy,” said Cygnet Texkimp’s managing director Luke Vardy, who also reveals that initial grinding reps on ceramic rollers have achieved a TIR of less than 0.5µm.

“We have an ideal opportunity here to show the market exactly what this machine can do. By offering dedicated trials in a secure environment we can prove its capabilities and so de-risk any potential investment.”

Cygnet Texkimp has been manufacturing fibre-handling equipment since the early 1970s and is best-known in the industry for its creels and prepreg machinery.

“Adding a high-performance coater to our portfolio makes sound business sense because every prepreg line we’ve ever built has needed one,” Vardy concluded. “Now we can offer composite manufacturers a complete integrated solution.”

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