Advanced Winding Capability For Next Generation Thermoplastic Composite Tapes

COVID-19疫情严重扰乱了航空航天业，并对整个供应链产生了毁灭性影响。因此，许多航空公司正在加速计划淘汰旧的燃油效率低下的飞机，如波音747，并希望运营更环保的轻型复合材料飞机。目前，空客A350的复合材料含量最高，为53%。Bindatex Advanced Materials Cutting专门从事碳纤维复合材料带的精密切割，用于航空航天中的自动纤维铺放，这项技术一直是采用热固性复合材料的轻型飞机的关键，这种材料具有减轻重量的优势。通过使用可回收的数字印刷复合材料部件来代替金属部件，已经确定了航空航天中的进一步轻量化机会。Bindatex一直在开发将连续碳纤维成形为长丝的技术，这是实现该技术进步所需的。该项目的成功将有助于数字复合印刷的商业化，并确保英国在碳纤维长丝的转换和格式化方面保持领先地位，同时创造机会回收过程中产生的废物。

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the aerospace industry and it has had a devastating effect on the whole supply chain. As a consequence many airlines are accelerating plans to retire older fuel inefficient aircraft such as Boeing 747's and look to operate more environmentally friendly lightweight composite aircraft. Currently the Airbus A350 has the highest composite content at 53% but there are further opportunities to replace metallic parts with recyclable composite alternatives.Bindatex Advanced Materials Cutting specialises in the precision slitting of carbon fibre composites tapes for automated fibre placement in aerospace and this technology has been key to light weighting aircraft with thermoset composite materials which have the advantage of reducing the weight of aircraft but unfortunately are not currently recyclable.Further light weighting opportunities in aerospace have been identified by using recyclable digitally printed composite components to replace metallic parts. Bindatex has been developing technologies to format continuous carbon fibres into filaments which are needed to enable the progress of this technology. Success of the project will will help lead to the commercialisation of Digital Composite Printing and ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of the converting and formatting of the carbon fibre filaments whilst creating opportunities to recycle the in process waste created within the process.