“Hexcel developed HexTow IM9 24K to be a workhorse fibre that builds on the company’s proven legacy of intermediate modulus fibres,” said Imad Atallah, Vice President, Product Management, Composite Materials. “We are excited to offer our customers a dependable carbon fibre solution for high-rate manufacturing and high-performance material designs.”
The HexTow® IM9 24K provides an alternative solution for customers seeking affordable, high-value composites, and is particularly suited for manufacturing primary and secondary aerospace vehicle structures. The combination of the fiber’s high performance and translation into composite tensile strength, as well as the increased fiber line throughput and productivity provided by a 24K tow size, provides a strong value proposition when compared to other commercially available IM fibers.
With the launch of the new HexTow IM9 24K carbon fibre, Hexcel anticipates qualifying the product with highly-toughened epoxies, thermosetting bismaleimide (BMI), out of autoclave (OOA) and other high performance resin systems. Composite data is currently being generated in a variety of resin systems and will be made available to customers.
Meet Hexcel at JEC World 2024, hall 5, booth H57.
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