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Carbon is a composite material, in that it is made up of two distinct parts: fibre and resin. The fibre may be carbon, Kevlar or glass. The resin is epoxide type.
Carbon is a very strong fibre, but, as with all fibres, in order to manufacture a piece with shape and substance, it requires resin.
The technology used to manufacture high performance polymer composite parts is "prepreg", i.e. the use of long fibres pre-impregnated with heat curing epoxy resin. The other great advantage of composite material is that the fibres can be arranged in the direction deemed most necessary. Similarly correct design and overlayering of the appropriately arranged fabric layers (lamination) confers the structure with the mechanical properties required. Our products use unidirectional and 45° criss-crossed fibre fabrics for structural parts, while for the finishing layer (aesthetic), the fibres may be UD, 1k, 3k or 12k type.
With the advent of nanotechnology procedures, experimental atomic and molecular engineering, it is now possible to obtain composite fabrics and products with an increasingly high grade of reliability and lightness.
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