Cannon announced that it will showcase its solutions for the manufacture of carbon- and glass-reinforced composites at Composites Europe 2016 in hall 8b, stand G51. A comprehensive range of technologies and equipment, including carbon fibre preformers, resin dosing units and mixing heads, polymerisation presses, moulds and ancillary equipment – already compliant with the recommendations of the Industry 4.0 “smart factory” scenario – will be illustrated.
Amongst others, the company will highlight its fully automatic glass and carbon-fibre preformers with cycle times suitable for the automotive industry. Cannon will also present its chemical dispensing units and dedicated mixing heads for epoxy and PU resins, using classic injection methods or Liquid Lay Down and Spray Lay Down technologies with multi-component formulations.
Furthermore, a new generation of short-stroke presses suitable for different technologies (HP-RTM, gap injection, compression moulding, etc.) and different reinforcements (carbon and glass fibres, non-woven PP, etc.), featuring a parallelism control system, will be highlighted. In addition, the company will present dedicated moulds, available for the most complex and large composite parts, as well as the Cresim method for the manufacture of CFRP parts using recycled carbon fibres. According to Cannon, this Life+ EU-sponsored project offers a new manufacturing process which will potentially reuse up to 100 % of the carbon fibre waste and scraps from different industrial sectors, transforming an environmental problem of today in an opportunity of … .
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