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Kitted Process MaterialsIncreased manufacturing capacity, consistent component quality.

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Why Kitting? In composite part manufacturing processes, significant time is spent by operatives tailoring materials to fit the mould tool. This can range from prepregs right through to the range of process consumables typically required for cure of the part. The tailoring process itself can lead to process inconsistency and associated quality variability.

Cytec has long recognised the need for risk-reduction in complex, expensive part processing and offers customised solutions to meet these challenges. Cytec Process Materials is the global industry leader in all aspects of kitted process materials and we extend this service to include prepregs for the ultimate “part in a bag” concept – everything that is needed to manufacture a part.

Why Cytec

Cytec materials businesses supply process consumables, advanced composite materials and composite tooling to customers for all aerospace and industrial applications. We recognise the need for high quality, complementary products and services that are tailored to meet our customer requirements. To fulfil this need, the businesses draw on and

apply one of their major strengths – strong customer focus, where application engineering, knowledge transfer, customer-led innovations and flexibility are key principles. Our Process Materials kitting service fits perfectly within this strategy, delivering high-value, tailored products in a timely manner, right to your production line.

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Our kitting service encompasses the pre-cutting of consumables to simple predetermined shapes and dimensions, right through to the assembly of complex multi-layer integrated vacuum bag assemblies, and is offered as an alternative to customers having to prepare and cut their own consumables, leaving them to focus on their core tasks and competencies.

We offer a tailored, adaptable, global service which can be developed to match individual customer requirements where ever they are based globally.

Customers typically supply their CAD or tool form data and have access to highly-skilled engineers who routinely design complex, tailored kits and bag assemblies to simplify the manufacturing process for composite structures, regardless of their size and quantity. The design and prototyping process includes all aspects from individual layer profile definition right through to the design of customised packaging for safe delivery of a complex bagging assembly direct to line if necessary.

Once the kits are fully designed and supplied to customer requirements, we follow up with an unrivalled, worldwide customer support service. We ensure that customers make the most of our products, their unique properties, and can then focus on their core composites manufacturing business.

Our customer-focused kitting service offers many benefits, including:

• Improved and simplified inventory control

• Reduced materials waste

• Production time savings

• Improved manufacturing time

Reasons for choosing our kitting services:

• Flexible: Different levels of service to accommodate a diverse range of industry requirements

• Cost-effective: Can reduce touch-labour cost by more than 50% and materials waste by an average of 40%

• Efficient operator practice: Operator motion reduced due to assembly-line stock and storage, reducing manufacturing time by more than 50%

• Improvement in quality: Part and process quality improved through production process standardization

• Additional benefits: Increased productivity, standardized working – leading to better quality laminates, and health and safety improvements through reduced handling

KITTING APPLICATIONS

Kit Portfolio

Cytec offers a range of kitting solution to meet the needs of our customers:

Basic Kits (high volume, low complexity)

• Slit width materials customised to customer need

• Perforated release films

• Customised bagging film widths

Intermediate kits

• Packs of simple cut shapes

• Part sealed envelope bags

Materials combinations

• Combinations of process materials typically assembled together and pre-shaped to reduce lay-up time and positioning

Fully customized kits

• Fully tailored, part specific cut shapes of all materials combinations including bagging film, release film, peel ply, breather, sealant tape, infusion media etc

• Materials can be directly part-marked or poly-bagged and part-marked

• Pre-shaped vacuum bags designed to perfectly fit complex part assemblies (eg use of pre-cured stringers/ribs to be co-cured to prepreg skins)

• Seamed vacuum blankets for the manufacture of very large parts

• Can be combined with reusable vacuum bags

In addition to these process materials focussed services, prepregs can also be kitted to suit customer need resulting in supply of preshaped, part-marked prepreg plies plus all the preshaped consumables required to complete the curing process. A complete part build in a part-marked kit bag – clean, efficient and quality guaranteed. Technology beyond our customer’s imagination!

These kits are put together from the wide range of vacuum bagging consumables manufactured and supplied by Cytec Process Materials. These are carefully selected to match the application requirements. The full range of consumables can be explored in our Process Materials product portfolio brochure or on www.cytec.com.

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Suitable for low cost vacuum bag processing, excellent surface finish, ease of use with a broad processing window, good combination of mechanical performance, fatigue

resistance and toughness, and supplied across a wide range of fabrics and fibres.

Resin chemistries include epoxies, phenolics, vinyl esters, bismaleimides, thermoplastics, cyanate esters, HT polyimides, polyesters, ceramics.

Vacuum bagging films including film welding, perforating and processing, breather fabrics, peel plies, release films, flow media, release fabrics, sealants, reusable vacuum systems to suit specific

tooling requirements, elastomeric tools, and design services.

Epoxies, phenolics, vinyl esters, cyanate esters, bismaleimides, HT polyimides, surfacing films, structural films, bond

primers, lightning strike, silicone sealants, paste/potting/foams.

Material science, polymer chemistry, processing science, and technical

service and application engineering, e.g. design assistance with resin

infusion networks, design for manufacturing, crashworthiness

and intrusion analysis.

Ablatives, pre-forms, friction materials,

cross-plied materials, high-drape formats,

selective impregnation, core materials.

Carbon Fibers: Standard modulus, intermediate modulus, pitch fibres.

Textiles: Standard weaves, bias weaves, internally consumed.

For increased part manufacturing productivity, quality, reliability and reduced waste. From simple shapes to complex kits of any/all of our products. From CAD to fully assembled vacuum bag kits.

Design: Supporting tool design optimisation.

Tooling Materials: Tooling prepregs for outstanding surface finish and longevity.

Tool Manufacture: Complete manufacturing service.

Reusables: Soft tooling technology including reusable bags, heater blankets, intensifiers and caul sheets.

COMPLETE COMPOSITES PORTFOLIO

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Industrial Materials tel: +44 (0) 1773 766200 - Heanor, UK tel: +44 (0) 161 653 4876 - Manchester, UK tel: +1 (0) 918 252 3922 - Tulsa, USA tel: +86 21 64228920 - Shanghai, China industrialmaterials@cytec.com

Process Materials tel: +44 (0) 1274 550500 - Keighley, UK tel: +33 (0)5 61 37 89 89 - Toulouse, France tel: +39(0) 039 6892987 - Milan, Italy tel: +1 (0)562 906 3300 - Santa Fe Springs, USA tel: +86 21 64228920 - Shanghai, China processmaterials@cytec.com

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