Voith partners with Gazechim to deliver expert parts manufacturing

Voith Composites, Composites 4.0 technology leader and developer of carbon fibre-reinforced composites (CFRP) stacks in the Voith Group, has announced a partnership with Gazechim Group for the pan-European distribution of Voith’s award-winning prepreg CFRP tooling product, Carbon4Tool.

Gazechim Group is an established leader in the European composites industry, supporting and supplying leading manufacturers in Europe with advanced composites materials for creating parts for the automotive, aeronautic, and other industries.

Carbon4Tool is a multi-layer CFRP tooling system, supplied in pre-cut tiles made using Voith’s Composites 4.0 technology, the Voith Roving Applicator NextGen (VRA NextGen). A 1-8-1 skin configuration is achieved using a two tiles layer system, one facing up and one facing down towards the masterblock. These tiles consist of pre-impregnated UD tapes segmentally stacked and designed as a two-tile skin system, one for the surface and one for the backing, each tile being impregnated with low a temperature curing epoxy resin.

The partnership will extend the reach of Carbon4Tool into the European composites manufacturing market, enabling producers to explore new avenues in composite lamination, reducing labour requirements, waste, and energy consumption, and shortening production cycles up to 70%.

“We are delighted to partner with Gazechim Group to propel Carbon4Tool in Europe,” said Anna Pointner, CEO at Voith Composites. “Our Composites factory and Voith Roving Applicator have been instrumental in our endeavours to develop innovative solutions for modern and efficient manufacturing of composites parts. We’re excited to team up with Gazechim Group to show European manufacturers how they can positively impact their composites manufacturing processes.”

Jean Carol, business unit manager of Gazechim Group said: “We partnered with Voith Composites because we believe in their product. Their Carbon4Tool material is a new 4.0 generation of tooling material that offers fantastic draping and contour performances despite its thicker design, which typically results in a time saving of up to 70% in the production of tooling forms and of up to 20% material waste reduction.”

www.gazechim.com

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