Advanced Composite Group

Advanced Composites Group, UK Tooling blocks, ancillaries, prepregs, support structures... 

Advanced Composites Group, Heanor, Derbyshire, UK—founded in 1975. Advanced Composites Materials Ltd. is a prominent prepregger in the UK, with a second factory. Advanced Composites Materials Inc., in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is the third largest prepregger in the world. 

There are several firms that specialise in producing composite materials for machinery to generate sustainable energy these include Advanced Composite Group (ACG, now Cytec), Gurit and Hexcel. 

GFPMS is a European composites distributor and has established a strong portfolio of advanced composites products, including Advanced Composites Group s prepregs and Sigmatex s carbon fibre materials they do not manufacture polymers. 

Materials. The epoxy resin was provided by Advanced Composites Group Ltd UK (ACG), with a brand name of EF6305. The low cost epoxy resin was in a film form with a thickness of about 0.1 mm. It was an amine-cured Bisphol-A type epoxy resin. The vinyl ester was provided by Reichhold with a brand name of DION 9400-800, which was a 75 25 mix of DION 9400 (an epoxy novalac based vinyl ester base polymer) and low profile additive (Scott Bader 30% PVAc in styrene). The vinyl ester was cured using 1.0 wt% Akzo Nobel Trigonox C (TBPB). 

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