, Replcing Aluminum with An Almost 50 Percent Weight Reduction and Lowering Production Cost by 21 Percent, Will Two Years, with a part rejection rate,
MM Thick (0.98 Inch by 2.75 mm by 0.06 mm). The process product 1.4 Million Parts Per Year, Through 2007.
Xperion Acquired ACM on Jan. 1, 2007, and Spelz Remains Xperion & RSQUO; S Chief Technology Manager.
Facility in Germany.
(660 mm) and A Thickness up to 0.4 Inches (10 mm) at a maximum feed Rate of 300 FT/HR (90m/hr) and a maximum press temporary of 770 ° F (410 ° C). The shapeed propile Machine MachineApply A 400 KN (~ 90,000 LBF) force Over A 4-Inch by 4-Inch (100-mm by 100-mm) Area at a Maximum Rate of 150 FT/HR (30m/HR), With the Same Thickness and Temperabaturecapability as the Panel line.
OR STEEL DIES for Shaped Profiles. The Continuous Consolidated SHAPED Profile Exits the Press Area and is Automaticly Cut and Stacked OR Wing Orto A SPool.
CCM was developed using C/PEEK materials, specifically APC-2 products from Cytec Engineered Materials (Tempe, Ariz.). Work with less challenging PP, PEI, PPS and other thermoplastics followed. “We assumed that if we could process high-temperature thermoplastics, then we could solve most of the problems with low-temperature thermoplastics,” says Spelz. All of these input materials work well with CCM, so that material selection is based on specific customer needs. But some materials reduce the processing speed. UD prepregs, such as C/PEEK or C/PEKK from Cytec or C/PPS from TenCate (Nijverdal, The Netherlands and Morgan Hill, Calif.) and fabric prepregs, such as TenCate’s C/PEI, process simply, he maintains, but “film-stacked or powder-coated materials need longer impregnation of the fibers after reaching flow temperature during consolidation, and therefore, the machine speed must be lower than when using well-impregnated materials.”
CCM tooling has benefited from extensive development. “A lot of suppliers working on thermoplastic composites came from the injection molding industry or from a background of deep-draw-forming automotive components, where tooling is quite complex and expensive,” Spelz notes. “At Xperion, we developed a new tooling system, based on quick-change modules.” All CCM tooling is adapted for a standard pattern of mounting holes on the machine and are designed to be modular. Several types of shapes can be created with one tooling set , and all the different male and female tools can be combined and are easy to change out and modify. For example, an L-shaped female tool can be used with different male tools to achieve different thicknesses or outer radii (as long as the dimension of the component legs are the same) Thermosetting Compression Moulding without designing new sealing pieces or heating devices. Spelz says modular tooling has saved money and time, especially during prototyping.
Notes. Carson Also Sees Flexibility in the Recyclability of thermoseting Compression Moulding TPCS.