The use of composite materials in the aircraft industry offers several advantages. Firstly, composites are significantly lighter than traditional materials, which helps reduce overall weight and improve fuel efficiency. This leads to lower operating costs and decreased CO2 emissions, making it an attractive option for airlines seeking to cut costs and improve sustainability.

In addition, composites offer greater flexibility in design, enabling the production of more complex and efficient shapes that are difficult to achieve with traditional materials. This can lead to improved performance and reduced maintenance requirements.

Furthermore, composites can provide excellent strength-to-weight ratios, making them ideal for critical components such as aircraft primary and secondary structure parts or aircraft cabin parts. They also have high resistance to corrosion, fatigue, and impact damage, which can improve durability and reduce maintenance costs.

Overall, the use of composites in the aircraft industry offers significant benefits, including reduced weight, improved fuel efficiency, greater design flexibility, improved performance, and reduced maintenance requirements. These advantages have made composites an attractive choice for aircraft manufacturers and airlines seeking to improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance sustainability.

The use of composites in the automotive industry offers several advantages. Here are some of the key benefits:

Lightweight: Composite materials are much lighter than traditional materials, such as steel or aluminum. This leads to improved fuel efficiency and reduced CO2 emissions.

High Strength: Composites offer high strength-to-weight ratios, making them ideal for structural components in the automotive industry.

Customization: Composites can be designed to meet specific performance requirements, including strength, stiffness, and impact resistance. This makes them well-suited for a wide range of automotive applications.

Durability: Composites are resistant to corrosion, which can extend the lifespan of automotive components.

Design flexibility: Composites can be molded into a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing for greater design flexibility and creativity.

Improved safety: Composites can provide enhanced safety in the event of a collision, as they can absorb and dissipate impact energy more effectively than traditional materials.

Overall, the use of composites in the automotive industry can lead to improved performance, increased efficiency, and reduced environmental impact.

In the ever-evolving automotive industry, it is essential to strive for innovation and progress towards reducing Co2 emissions. Continuous fibre composites, such as glass, lighter-weighted structures and carbon, play a significant role in this transformation.

At our company, we are committed to meeting the needs of automobile manufacturers by adapting and developing technologies through strong partnerships and a long-term strategic vision. We understand that composite solutions must meet structural and appearance requirements while demonstrating economic relevance in the face of stiff competition from other materials and processes.

To meet this challenge, we offer function-specific structural reinforcements that are optimized in weight and orientation, as well as appearance solutions for demanding applications. With over 50 years of experience in the composite market, we put our textile know-how to work by providing high-performance solutions tailored to our customers’ manufacturing processes.

We offer a range of reinforcements for direct processes in closed molds, such as RTM, to meet environmental standards and improve working conditions by reducing volatile organic compounds (VOCs). We also offer function-specific reinforcements based on preforming solutions, including powder, fabric, or coated yarn, to make implementation easier. Our woven carbon reinforcements and NCF multiaxial carbon reinforcements utilize advanced, high-productivity technologies.

In addition, we offer solutions for high-speed processes with our all-series range of NCF products, specifically designed for thermoplastic processes like organo-sheets or RTM caprolactam. We also provide laboratory tools for testing the behavior of reinforcements under real-life conditions in RTM, RTM-L, and infusion processes, enabling us to evaluate critical product and process performance, such as permeability and deformability.

In response to the growing threats faced by individuals in military vehicles, composite materials are increasingly being used for ballistics to ensure their protection. Our company has developed reinforcements that are based on high-performance glass or aramid fibers. These materials are designed to reduce the weight of armor while improving shatter protection, thereby meeting safety requirements in both military and civilian applications.

Our solution combines Kevlar® fiber-based reinforcement with a thermoplastic film, which is an alternative to traditional solutions that use reinforcements combined with phenolic resins. The advantage of this transformation is that it offers ease of implementation and eliminates the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Overall, our goal is to provide effective and innovative solutions to address the ever-evolving threats faced by individuals in high-risk environments.

The wind power industry is rapidly growing, having installed 55 GW in 2016. This growth can be attributed to two main factors: environmental concerns and economic viability. Clean energy solutions like wind power have gained new opportunities for growth as a result of the COP21 agreements. Countries like China, India, and the United States have been investing more in wind power, and the global cumulative capacity is expected to reach 2000 GW by 2030, up from 500 GW in 2016. Additionally, the cost of wind energy has decreased significantly, making it a competitive alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

Despite the progress made in the wind power industry, there are still challenges to overcome. Reducing costs remains a major concern. Improvements in turbine performance and offshore technology have helped bring down costs, but wind turbine blades still face structural constraints due to extreme weather conditions. The size of these blades continues to grow, and maintaining an optimal weight-to-power ratio is critical.

New textile solutions for composites shown that blade design can be optimized for weight, performance, and cost through the use of multiaxial reinforcements (NCF) made of fibreglass and/or carbon. With these new solutions, shorter manufacturing times are possible while reducing costs by approximately 13% compared to using an external flow medium.

The oil and gas industry faces unique challenges in their quest to extract fossil fuels from the ocean floor. With deeper wells comes higher pressure and extreme conditions, making it necessary to design flexible tubing that can withstand these conditions. To meet these challenges, special reinforcements are required that combine technological expertise with high-performance fibers such as aramid and carbon.

At our company, we are dedicated to providing solutions for the oil and gas industry. Our team of experts has developed innovative composite materials that are specifically designed to meet the demands of deep sea drilling. Our solutions include high-performance fibers and flexible tubing that can withstand extreme pressure and temperatures, ensuring the safety of personnel and equipment. With our expertise and dedication to innovation, we are proud to play a key role in the ongoing exploration and development of our planet’s energy resources.

The industry demands a wide range of reinforcements, including woven roving, combination fabrics, ribbons, and multiaxial reinforcements, to meet its diverse needs. Composites are becoming increasingly popular in this market due to their overall performance, including corrosion resistance, durability, and lightweight properties.

We offer high-performance composite solutions for various industrial applications, including trenchless pipe rehabilitation, corrosion prevention, electrical or gas cabinets, and more. Our solutions are designed to meet the industry’s demands for robust and reliable materials that can withstand harsh environments and extreme conditions.

Our expertise and tools are designed to meet the needs of the shipbuilding industry, including the recreational, racing, fishing, and military boat markets. The company offers various reinforcements, such as glass, carbon, and aramid-reinforcements, using different conversion processes like weaving, multiaxial, combining, etc. These reinforcements can provide weight reduction, better surface appearance, and stronger structures to the boats.

We assist its customers in improving their own production processes, such as transitioning from open-mold processes to closed mould processes. It offers various reinforcements that can assist resin flow or combine vacuum draw and structural functions.

We also provides various fabrics and reinforcements for infusion processes like a 100% glass structural and vacuum-draw system and a laminate combining a reinforcement and a glass or polyester vacuum-draw system.

In enhancing their production processes by using reinforcements that assist resin flow and combine vacuum-draw and structural functions. We offers glass and carbon multiaxial reinforcements to improve rigidity and lower the weight of parts. It also provides fabrics and reinforcements for infusion processes such as a 100% glass structural and vacuum-draw system, a laminate combining a reinforcement and a glass or polyester vacuum-draw system, and glass and carbon UD composites.

Products range from glass and carbon multiaxial reinforcements for better rigidity and lower weight of parts to reinforcements based on Kevlar fibers for shock resistance, suitable for high-speed military vessels (fast patrol boats).

We belive our expertise and tools serve the shipbuilding industry, ensuring customers can achieve the best possible results.

The company has been involved in composite development for skis from an early stage and is skilled in ribbon weaving. The technology’s flexibility is ideal for ski manufacturing, enabling the production of narrow widths with a preferred axis at 0° using various materials (such as glass, carbon, aramid, basalt, and natural fibers). Ribbons combine technical function with aesthetics.

Multiaxial technologies are also used, widely used by ski manufacturers. NCF reinforcements are available in various constructions (biaxial or triaxial) and can be combined with fabrics and cut into strips made from different fibers.

The company offers a range of carbon fabrics that combine original design with structural performance, providing shock resistance and vibration damping in sporting equipment. Their products are intended for demanding markets that require premium quality appearance, such as surfboards or hydrofoils.

To meet the industry’s demands, a range of carbon-based multiaxial reinforcements has been developed. These innovative reinforcements improve the fatigue resistance and lower the weight of parts with a preferred direction, such as skis, for better control on different snow types. These reinforcements are also useful for tubular structures, such as bike frames, where the stiffness/weight ratio of each tube section must be optimized.

The company has a strategy focused on innovation. They use an automated technology that combines RTM and dry, preformed shapes to produce high-performance racquet prototypes. This technique, combined with optimized reinforcements, reduces human error while ensuring consistent quality, making it an alternative to conventional pre-impregnated technologies.

Composites and their role in the transportation industry.

Composites are being increasingly used in the railway industry due to their beneficial properties. They are crucial in providing weight reduction, corrosion resistance, and functional integration. Railway parts also need to meet European standards for fire and smoke resistance, which can be achieved through the use of Flow Mat FR, a sandwich reinforcement based on glass fibers.

Industrial vehicles, such as buses, trucks, and farm equipment, also need to comply with CO2 emissions regulations. To achieve this, manufacturers are focusing on weight reduction. Composites are becoming a popular alternative to metals due to their strength and lightweight properties. Our company has been serving the bus and truck market for years, offering a range of woven fabrics and laminates that meet manufacturers’ requirements.

In addition, our flow mat range is suitable for closed-mould processes and complies with environmental standards for the reduction of VOCs. It is specifically used for manufacturing hoods, roof risers, spoilers, and other structural parts.

With years of experience, we have been pioneers in developing solutions that meet the requirements of weight reduction, stronger structure, and improved surface appearance, all while ensuring cost-effectiveness and stable quality.

Our carbon-based non-crimp fabric (NCF) offers high mechanical performance, compatibility with multiple resins, and cost efficiency. It also has improved permeability in the infusion process, making it ideal for lightweight and strong marine applications.

Our expertise in reinforcement allows for the application of these materials to the hull and deck of cruiser-racers, resulting in a unique combination of performance and comfort onboard for both fast family cruising and high-level racing, thanks to their specific design and the use of our reinforcement.

Carbon construction enables us to create lighter and stiffer structures capable of managing higher loads than those made of glass fibers. This is essential for achieving the required strength without adding extra weight or thickness to the laminate, providing a cost-effective solution in production while still reaching high strength with fewer layers.