Kordsa introduces a new fast press curable resin with an enhanced visual quality

Kordsa has introduced a new fast press curable prepreg system in composites technologies, with the aim of supplying the best possible materials solutions for manufacturing good quality, low-cost, large-volume composite parts. At its R&D center located at the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence, Kordsa has developed an innovation that eliminates whitespot problems in visual parts, thus providing high visual clarity for the automotive industry.

This new generation fast press curable resin, especially formulated for a cosmetic-grade visual carbon look, has opened up the possibility of using prepregs in automotive mass production. Due to the long duration of composite manufacturing processes, composite materials were previously not able to satisfy the takt time required by the automotive industry. This is one of the main factors that limited the range of previous generation prepregs that could be used in automotive mass production and which restricted the use of composites to high-end segments. With this revolutionary formulation, Kordsa has achieved an enhanced visual quality, optimized for automotive mass production.