Carbon fiber parts are suitable for many specific applications where the material’s properties of low density, low moisture absorption, dimensional stability, and high rigidity make them an ideal choice.

We work with a wide variety of companies in these sectors, and as always, we help them improve their existing products or even develop new designs, often starting from scratch.

In the case of instruments, carbon fiber can be used to reinforce wooden masts.

Short strips can be used to reinforce the peghead joint.

Carbon fiber strips can be used to reinforce guitars, combined with balsa or spruce as a rigid laminate.

And due to its high compressive/tensile strength, low mass, and excellent bonding with epoxy and cyanoacrylate adhesives, carbon fiber is the gateway to manufacturing next-generation instruments.

In medicine, carbon fiber has rapidly become one of the primary materials used in medical imaging, X-ray, and gamma-ray applications.

In particular, carbon fiber provides a radiotransparent material with sufficient strength and rigidity to maintain critical dimensions under load, and it will not decompose over time, even after high doses of X-ray and gamma-ray radiation.

Compared to aluminum, carbon fiber support panels and structures have substantially lower X-ray attenuation but can be manufactured as rigid as aluminum or even steel if suitable carbon fibers are used. These attributes make carbon fiber an ideal choice for medical imaging tables, armrests, and other similar components.

In metrology, carbon fiber is rapidly becoming one of the materials of choice due to its high stability and low thermal expansion.

In applications where thermal changes will take comparable metallic measuring and alignment tools out of tolerance due to material expansion or contraction, carbon fiber will remain virtually unchanged over a wide temperature range. A standard carbon fiber part can be easily manufactured with a CTE of 1.5 x 10-6 /K, or approximately the same as Invar steel, making it an ideal candidate for both metrology tools and scientific equipment (e.g., telescopic lens support structure or mounting plates for lasers and mirrors).

In the field of telecommunications, the advantage of carbon fiber, fiberglass, and Kevlar in such an application is obvious when considering the challenges involved in moving equipment to remote locations. Lightweight carbon fiber composites can make the difference between something that is carried and a system that must be moved in a vehicle. And even telecommunications systems mounted on vehicles and aircraft benefit greatly from reduced weight.

On the other hand, fiberglass and Kevlar are almost transparent to radar signals, making these materials ideal for the construction of radomes.