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Commercial Aerospace
The composites content in each new aircraft program has grown significantly since the introduction of prepregs in the 1970s. Composites are now essential materials in the construction of all aircraft and the commercial aerospace industry is the largest user of Hexcel’s advanced composites.
In new wide bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 XWB composites account for over 50% of the airframe. Hexcel was proud to be awarded the contract by Airbus to supply HexPly® prepreg reinforced with HexTow® carbon fiber for all composite primary structures of the A350 XWB.
The Boeing 737 MAX engine nacelles have an acoustic inner barrel that is manufactured from Hexcel’s engineered core and benefits from Hexcel’s Acousti-Cap® technology in which a permeable cap material is individually embedded into each honeycomb cell to create an acoustic septum. This technology is a leading contributor to the reduction of the area of acceptable noise contour of the 737 MAX engine by 40% over the legacy 737 NG, without any weight penalty.
Why use Hexcel composites?
Hexcel’s composite materials bring great benefits to aircraft design. They save weight and reduce fuel consumption, increase payload, extend flight range, enhance toughness and durability, optimize design, reduce part count, decrease maintenance cost and maximize passenger comfort and safety. The improvement in fatigue performance with carbon fiber reinforced prepregs (CFRP) compared to aluminum is also a major benefit.
Products for Aerospace
With a spirit of innovation that has grown stronger and stronger for over 60 years, Hexcel continues to push back the performance boundaries for aircraft designers with IM carbon fiber, toughened epoxy resins, out-of autoclave curing prepregs, noise reducing honeycombs and value added composite parts.
- Carbon Fibers: HS, IM and HM
- Carbon, Glass, Aramid and other Fiber Woven Fabrics
- Prepregs
- Adhesives
- High performance HiTape® and HiMax™ dry carbon reinforcements and liquid resins for structures made by infusion technologies (Out of Autoclave)
- Honeycomb and Engineered Core Composite Structures, including Acousti-Cap®
- Composite tooling compound : HexTool®
- Carbon Fiber Datasheet Group
- Honeycomb Datasheet Group
- Prepreg Datasheet Group
- Woven Reinforcements Datasheet Group
- HexForce® and HexPly® Aerospace Selector Guide Product Guides
- HexTow® Carbon Fiber Product Guides
- HexWeb® Honeycomb Selector Guide Product Guides
- HexBond® Adhesives Selector Guide Product Guides
- HexForce® Technical Fabrics Handbook Brochures
- HexWeb® Acousti-Cap® Sound Attenuating Honeycomb Brochure Brochures
- HexWeb® EC Engineered Core Brochure Brochures
- Hexcel Composite Solutions for Aerospace Brochures
- Additive Manufacturing Leads to Lightweight Complex Components that Enhance Performance on GA-ASI UAV/RPA Systems Brochures
- Composite Repair Technology Manuals
- Liquid Composite Moulding Technology Technology Manuals
- HexPly® Prepreg Technology Technology Manuals
- HexPly® Prepreg Technology - Chinese
- HexTool® User Guide Technology Manuals
- Honeycomb Attributes and Properties Technology Manuals
- Honeycomb Sandwich Design Technology Technology Manuals
