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HexPly® M78

HexPly® M78

HexPly® M78

Product catalog summary
Overview: HexPly® M78 is a prepreg designed for ski manufacturing, offering fast cure times, long storage stability, and excellent adhesion. It is a hot melt epoxy resin matrix suitable for carbon, glass, or aramide fibers.
Specifications: HexPly® M78.1 operates at cure temperatures between 110°C and 160°C, with cure cycles ranging from 18 to 1.5 minutes. It provides excellent adhesion to materials like aluminum, wood, thermoplastics, and elastomers.
Storage and Handling: The product offers long storage stability at room temperature (+23°C for a minimum of 2 weeks) and does not require freezing. It is immediately workable without conditioning after storage.
Quality and Flexibility: HexPly® M78 ensures reproducible quality without fluctuations due to manual preparation. It allows for flexible production processes and can be cut to any required dimension.
Environmental and Safety Compliance: The product is solvent-free, non-aggressive, and fully REACH compliant, eliminating the need for adhesive handling.
Mechanical Properties: The document provides detailed mechanical properties for various configurations of HexPly® M78.1, including tensile strength and modulus for different fiber orientations and resin contents.
Product Family: Hexcel offers a comprehensive range of composite materials, including HexTow® carbon fibers, HexFlow® resins, HexPly® prepregs, and more.
Contact Information: For quotes and orders, contact the sales office in Austria or visit the Hexcel website for worldwide sales office information.
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HexPly® M78-1

Fast cure, long storage stability and excellent adhesion. HexPly® M78 is designed for more flexibility in the manufacture of skis to enhance both process and quality.

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HexPly® M78-2

HexPly® M78Prepregs • Fast cure: 7 minutes at 120° C • Long storage stability: Minimum 2 weeks at 23° C • Clean & safe low tack prepreg, fully REACH compliant • Excellent adhesion to auxiliary and core materials HexPly® M78.1 is a formulated, hot melt epoxy resin matrix, especially designed for prepreg applications where short cure cycles using temperatures from 110° up to 160° C are required. Due to its high reactivity, M78.1 can be used for economic, environmentally friendly and fast manufacture of industrial composites and is applicable for pre-impregnation into carbon, glass or aramide fibers. Makes...

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HexPly® M78-3

Mechanical data are based on a cure cycle of 130°C, 15 min, 5 bar.

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HexPly® M78-4

Hexcel Product Family HexTow® Carbon Fiber HexFlow® Resins HexMC® Molding Composite HexForce® Reinforcements Polyspeed® Laminates HexWeb® Honeycomb Core HiTape® Advanced Reinforcements Modipur® Polyurethane HexWeb® Engineered Core HexPly® Prepregs Redux® Adhesives HexTOOL® Tooling Material For more information Hexcel is a leading worldwide supplier of composite materials to aerospace and industrial markets. Our comprehensive range includes: ¥¥ HexTow® carbon fibers ¥¥ HexForce® ¥¥ HexPly® ¥¥ HexMC® prepregs molding compounds tooling materials ©2016 Hexcel Corporation – All rights reserved. Hexcel...

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