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By helping to make vehicles lighter, safer, cleaner and more cost effective, Cytec Industrial Materials is responding to the needs and expectations of the vehicle manufacturers (OEMs), system suppliers and the consumers. Cytec Automotive technologies help manufacturers meet increasingly strict environmental standards, supporting responsible development and progress. Lighter, less polluting and more fuel-efficient vehicles A world leader in composite materials for vehicle body in white (BIW) structure, Cytec proactively develops innovative and class-leading material systems for Automotive OEMs and their supply chain, creating solutions for weight and emission reduction, recyclability and pedestrian protection.

Cytec, the partner of choice for the Automotive market The Automotive industry faces many challenges; from improving energy efficiency, to reducing vehicle emissions, to increasing safety and appeal at reduced program cost. Cytec’s material science, composite and Automotive experts work with you to address these tough challenges and to create and refine, industry-leading solutions of the highest standards. Whether your goal is to reduce the BIW mass or the interior noise of a passenger car, Cytec works collaboratively to deliver the optimum solution, every time: • Lightweight, cost-effective, multi-material technology solutions • Materials for BIW structures, high temperature and impact applications, body panels and visual components • Automation systems and processes

• Industry leading snap cure resin systems for matched die processing • Compatible surfacing films • Carbon Fiber • Strategic collaborations with OEMs and Tier 1 • Integrating the composite supply chain

Cytec’s unique high volume application development, materials and process development center offers real advantage to our customers.

© Koenigsegg Automotive AB

Typical serial automotive car

Structural and cosmetic applications on the Koenigsegg Agera R

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HIGH PERFORMANCE AUTOMOTIVE Cytec is the leading supplier of materials for high-performance automotive structures and applications offering: • Lightweight, high-performance, cost-effective, multi-material solutions • Surfacing films & fast cure resin systems for press, traditional vacuum bag and autoclave processing • Focussed on developing automation-ready materials and processes • Materials for primary and secondary structures, high temperature and impact applications, body panels and visual components • Strategic collaborations with Tier 1 & OEMs • Working with the whole supply chain • Unique high volume application, materials and process development centre offering real advantage to our customers

Cytec Offers • Thermoset composites • A range of materials’ presentation formats • Complete material characterisation capability, (mechanical testing, CAI FMBAI, TMA, Rheology, DSC, C-Scan, image analysis...) • In-house prototype and production development capability with CAD and FEA facilities, composites design engineering and design for manufacture, laminating analysis and process development • Experienced Automotive project engineers and laminators • Accredited quality assurance

Composite applications on the Corvette Stingray

• JIT delivery to agreed schedules

Process Materials

Composite Tooling

Cytec offers a comprehensive range of composites processing materials and consumables optimised for the highperformance Automotive market. Cytec supports its customers by providing tailor-made kitted solutions which offer time and cost savings through excellent process repeatability and reduced wastage.

Cytec innovation extends to providing a complete solution to the customer part manufacturing experience. As such, we not only offer the structural materials and their process consumables, but also a complete range of composite tooling solutions. Our tooling prepregs offer outstanding surface finish and longevity for the manufacture of complex mould tools. Our design service can support tool design optimisation to ensure a fit-for-purpose solution. In addition we offer soft tooling technology including reusable vacuum bags, integral heater blankets, intensifiers and caul sheets. For all the details on our tooling offer, refer to the Tooling brochure or visit www.cytec.com.

Our broad expertise in the development of single-use tailored vacuum bags through to reusable vacuum systems, including standard and heated bag solutions, has enabled us to provide innovative curing technology to support autoclave and oven vacuum bag prepreg moulding. These systems offer reduced costs by lowering cycle times and energy consumption.

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Composite Materials Product Selector Guide for High-Performance Automotive STRUCTURE

TRIM Processing

Tg (DMA Onset) ºF (ºC)

Press/Autoclave

356 (180)

Press/Vacuum/Autoclave

374 (190)

MTM® 28

Press/Autoclave

212 (100)

MTM® 58B and FRB

Press/Autoclave

284 (140)

CYCOM® 997

Press/Autoclave

428 (220)

Vacuum

410 (210)

MTM® 228

Press/Autoclave

248 (120)

LTM® 26/ LTM® 26EL

Press/Autoclave

464 (240)

Vacuum

257 (125)

Press/Autoclave

230 (110)

Vacuum/Autoclave/Press

325 (163)

FM® 202 (surface film)

Press/Autoclave

257 (125)

Surface Master® 905

Press/Autoclave

277 (136)

CYCOM® 2020 MTM® 49-3

LTM® 45

LTM® 24ST MTM® 57 BPS240 format 1/2

Process Materials Product Selector Guide Prepreg product °F (°C)

Bagging film

Release film

Sealant tape

Peel ply

Breather

Flash tape

250 (120) Epoxy OOA

HS8171 VF450V

A5000 A6200

UCS180

A100 B100

AB100 AB10

FT1

250 (120) Epoxy in-autoclave

HS8171 VF450V

A5000 A6200

UCS180

A100 B100

AB100 AB10

FT1

350 (180) Epoxy OOA

HS8171 VF800G SV3000

A5000 A6200

SM5142

A100 B100

AB100 AB10

FT1

350 (180) Epoxy in-autoclave

HS8171 VF800G SV3000

A5000 A6200

SM5142

A100 B100

AB100 AB10

FT1

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SERIAL PRODUCTION AUTOMOTIVE Cytec leads the way in the provision of composite materials and technologies for structural applications and bodywork in the Automotive industry. Cytec continues to refine and expand its portfolio of rapid cure thermoset prepregs and High Pressure Resin Transfer Molding (HP RTM) resins, to support the expanding needs of the Automotive market. Cytec is strategically focused on supporting the drive for lightweight, cost-effective, multi-material vehicle solutions. We offer OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers a unique combination of materials, manufacturing process innovation, prototype support and application development capabilities.

Cytec Offers

Enabling high-volume production of CFRP structures with continual technology development

High volume serial Automotive applications require matched die processing solutions for optimum part manufacturing efficiency. Cytec Automotive materials are designed for these processes, and provide snap cure manufacturing performance, with class leading structural and cosmetic performance, across the range of Automotive applications.

“Touch-less” manufacturing

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Composite Materials Product Selector Guide for Serial Production Automotive TRIM Body Panels

High temp’

Secondary

STRUCTURE

XMTR 750

HP RTM

284 (140)

MTM 57

Press/Autoclave

230 (110)

CYCOM® 759F

Press/Autoclave

212 (100)

LTM 26/LTM 26EL

Press/Autoclave

248 – 257 (120 – 125)

MTM® 23*

Press/Autoclave

170 (77)

FM 202 (surface film)

Press/Autoclave

257 (125)

Interior

284 (140)

Exterior

Press

Impact

Tg (DMA Onset) ºF (ºC)

Primary

Processing

MTM® 58B and FRB

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* glass fiber only

Case Study: Chevrolet Spark EV battery enclosure Part: Rapid-cured press-moulded battery enclosure for the General Motors’ Chevrolet Spark electric car Method of Manufacture: Press Moulding Materials Used: MTM® 23 is a self-releasing, rapid-cure, volatile-organic compound (VOC)-free, vinyl ester resin system. MTM®23 has the capability to be rapid-cured in less than 3 minutes, can be formed into complex-shapes and is 40% lighter than metallic solutions, making it the material of choice to manufacture battery enclosures for an electric car, where manufacturing efficiency, extended range and enhanced performance are key. CSP is manufacturing over 4000 enclosures per year. Chevrolet Spark EV battery enclosure manufactured with Cytec MTM® 23

Watch our new video “Cytec, The Automotive Industry Composite Technology Partner” Learn about the advances made by Cytec and its supply chain partners, towards enabling high rate manufacture of CFRP parts for serial automotive applications. Visit www.cytec.com to find out more

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COMPLETE COMPOSITES PORTFOLIO Suitable for low cost vacuum bag processing, excellent surface finish, ease of use with a broad processing window, good combination of mechanical performance, fatigue resistance and toughness, and supplied across a wide range of fabrics and fibers. Resin chemistries include epoxies, phenolics, vinyl esters, bismaleimides, thermoplastics, cyanate esters, HT polyimides, polyesters, ceramics.

Carbon Fibers: Standard modulus, intermediate modulus, pitch fibers.

Epoxies, phenolics, vinyl esters, cyanate esters, bismaleimides, HT polyimides, surfacing films, structural films, bond primers, lightning strike, silicone sealants, paste/potting/foams.

Composites & Prepregs

Textiles: Standard weaves, bias weaves, internally consumed.

Carbon Fiber & Textiles

Design: Supporting tool design optimization.

Film & Paste Adhesives

Tooling Materials: Tooling prepregs for outstanding surface finish and longevity. Tool Manufacture: Complete manufacturing service.

Specialty Products

Tooling

Reusables: Soft tooling technology including reusable bags, heater blankets, intensifiers and caul sheets.

Technical Competencies

Kitting For increased part manufacturing productivity, quality, reliability and reduced waste. From simple shapes to complex kits of any/all of our products. From CAD to fully assembled vacuum bag kits.

Ablatives, pre-forms, friction materials, cross-plied materials, high-drape formats, selective impregnation, core materials.

Material science, polymer chemistry, processing science, and technical service and application engineering, e.g. design assistance with resin infusion networks, design for manufacturing, crashworthiness and intrusion analysis.

Process Materials

Vacuum bagging films including film welding, perforating and processing, breather fabrics, peel plies, release films, flow media, release fabrics, sealants, reusable vacuum systems to suit specific tooling requirements, elastomeric tools, and design services.

Contact Information: Industrial Materials tel: +44 (0) 1773 766200 - Heanor, UK tel: +44 (0) 161 653 4876 - Manchester, UK tel: +1 (0) 918 252 3922 - Tulsa, USA tel: +86 21 64228920 - Shanghai, China [email protected]

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Process Materials tel: +44 (0) 1274 550500 - Keighley, UK tel: +33 (0)5 61 37 89 89 - Toulouse, France tel: +39(0) 039 6892987 - Milan, Italy tel: +1 (0)562 906 3300 - Santa Fe Springs, USA tel: +86 21 64228920 - Shanghai, China [email protected] A4 Auto Flyer Feb-2015