Plate - Carbon Fiber - Press Cured

These press molded plates are manufactured using remnant prepregs collected from the commercial aviation manufacturing industry. Rather than discard these remnants in the landfill, the materials are used to manufacture these advanced composite plates made of the highest quality materials. The remnants are too small for the aerospace application that they were purchased for, but large enough to make high quality, high grade carbon fiber plates in a variety of sizes and thicknesses. The result is a cost effective, high performance, and more environmentally friendly solution for plate manufacturing.

We've even got a T1100 carbon fiber variant available! All the plates listed here with a Small Checkered plain weave pattern are constructed of 100% T1100 carbon fiber. This material is also often referred to as "unobtanium" given its highly focused usage to only one or two companies in the world. It touts higher strength and higher stiffness modulus balancing one another to become a proverbial wonder plate!

We've added a 5th plate variant built from upcycled T800 intermediate modulus chip material. This plate is often used in knife, jewelry and pen making as the cross section reveals the unique waviness generally associated with "Forged Carbon Fiber".

Product Details

Material modulus and strength are represented by 5 distinct patterns / weaves;

• Standard Modulus Fiber Plate (Fiber: 34 msi | 700 ksi, resin 250F Tg or greater)
• 2x2 Twill
• Plain Weave (3k)
• 3/8" Medium Checkered Weave / Spread Tow
• *T800 Intermediate Modulus Fiber Plate (Fiber: 42 msi | 850 ksi, resin system 3900)
• Chip Fiber (particle board / "Forged Carbon") pattern
• Chip length ~12mm x 10-12mm
• Service temperatures up to 400F & easily machined / shaped with sanding
• T1100 Intermediate Modulus Fiber Plate (Fiber: 47 msi | 1100 ksi, resin 250F Tg or greater)
• 3/16" Small Checkered Weave

Benefits & Features

• Upcycled materials from the aerospace industry
• Consistent material supply and high volume production possible
• 250F Tg (or greater)
• Common resin systems used are;
• MTM45-1 (cured @ 250F but with post cure Tg of 350F is possible)
• TC275-1 (cured @ 250F but with post cure Tg of 350F is possible)
• 3900 (Cured @ 350F with a max service temperature of 400F
• Smooth satin finish
• Multi-axial layup, core plies may be a mixture of uni & woven plies & skin plies will be as listed