LaminatingToday’s designers and builders can use an impressive array of high strength reinforcing and core materials to produce extremely light yet strong structures. But the ultimate success or failure of a structure, over time, depends to an even greater degree on the resin system used to bond the reinforcing materials in a composite matrix. ATL’s KINETIX® professional laminating epoxies form the basis of Australia’s highly developed, advanced composite boatbuilding industry, and were specifically formulated for the fabrication of fiberglass, aramid, and carbon fibre composites, using wet lay-up, vacuum bag or resin infusion processes. The KINETIX® range includes resins of different viscosity, and a choice of hardeners with different cure rates. Each resin/hardener combination has its own unique handling characteristics, cure schedule and physical properties, and provides a wide variety of working times, viscosities and thixotropy. |
