Manufacturing Techniques-Carbon Fiber

arbon fiber is a high-performance material widely used in manufacturing. It is light weighted, with high stiffness and tensile strength and low thermal expansion. This makes it a good choice for use in products that need to be both durable and portable.

Trending Carbon Fiber Manufacturing Techniques:

Wet Layup: In this method, carbon fibers are laid onto a mold, wetted with resin, and rolled or squeegeed to remove excess resin. The layup can be left open or a vacuum bag applied. It is then cured under room temperature or with heat and pressure to create a carbon fiber composite part. This method is commonly used for smaller volume and complex, difficult-to-mold parts.

Roll wrapping: The roll wrapping process is used by composite manufacturers to produce high strength carbon fibre tubes, either with a basic unfinished appearance or with a cosmetic finished appearance. Providing the tube you wish to make has parallel sides or a continuous taper then it is possible to use the roll wrapping process to make your own bespoke carbon fibre tube without the need for any specialist machinery beyond a metal mandrel of the right size and an oven large enough to cure the tube in.

Filament Winding: Filament winding is a technique primarily used to manufacture hollow, circular, or prismatic parts such as pipes and tanks. It is performed by winding continuous fiber tows onto a rotating mandrel using a specialized winding machine. Filament wound parts are commonly used in the aerospace, energy, and consumer product industries.

In Carbon Light we manufactured carbon fiber tubes by filament winding and drive shafts that are commonly used in automotive, cooling towers, defense, industrial and marine industries. Our drive shafts are available in carbon fiber, designed to transmit high torque ratings for various applications. They are tubular, single-span and flexible to compensate for any misalignment.

In Carbon Light we uses more methods to manufactures carbon fiber composite products such as VARTM and pulturision methods.