A few days ago, Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials Company (MCAM), located in Arizona, USA, has developed a new series of thermoplastic structural composite materials. The new products are based on new formula resins, which can meet the needs of medical, oil and gas, aerospace, automotive and other subdivisions. Application requirements of the consumer market. The manufacturer switched to a carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic injection molding compound manufacturer (product name KyronMax).
KyronMax series of structural components use thermoplastic composite materials that incorporate MCAM's chopped carbon fiber technology, which can provide customers with moldable high-strength composite materials to replace high-strength steel and other metal materials in structural components. Dave Wilkinson, Technical Director of MCAM, said: "Although we started our research from high-temperature thermoplastic engineering plastics, our products currently cover general polymers including polypropylene, nylon and polycarbonate, and can provide customers with many Product portfolio."
As MCAM continues to innovate in product categories and technologies, the company breaks industry barriers and provides high-performance materials with a strength of up to 414 MPa. Wilkinson said that the product design is user-friendly and easy to injection mold. The substitution of metal materials is feasible in representative industries such as the automobile industry, because lightweight and sustainability are the focus of some OEM technology development.
In addition, KyronMax technology enables extremely complex parts to be completed by injection molding, while having mechanical properties such as strength comparable to metals.
MCAM's North American Technology R&D Center merged the original four factories into a large factory building of 100,000 square feet (about 9,290 square meters), and developed cutting-edge materials through vertical integration. Wilkinson said: "We wind the raw carbon fiber on a spool, and then we can perform process steps such as chopped cutting, mixed mold forming and machining. We can provide the material form at any position in the process chain according to customer requirements."
The MCAM Technology Center has 12 injection molding equipment with pressures ranging from 20 tons to 700 tons, which can meet the actual needs of different customers.