METYX invests in new production line

The MAX 5 platform allows the company to manufacture even lighter weight carbon reinforcements.

Turkey’s METYX Composites has announced that a new, state-of-the-art MAX 5 carbon reinforcement production line is soon to be operating at the company’s headquarters in Istanbul and at its new facility in Manisa.
Plans are currently underway to offer a new generation of composite products and services to complement its existing portfolio.

“The MAX 5 platform will enable us to manufacture even lighter weight carbon reinforcements and several other types of reinforcements by spreading high K carbon tows with great precision,” says sales and marketing director Tunc S Ustunel.

“It will also complete our offerings in the carbon reinforcements product group, a highly successful group for our customers and our company alike,” he adds.

Along with the MAX 5 platform, METYX Composites has also invested in a new Carbon UD tape production line and a MAX 3 type multiaxial stitched fabric production line. Entering 2012 with a strong sales forecast for these products, the investments will significantly increase the company’s current production capacity for carbon reinforcements.

“These carbon investments were partly initiated to support requirements from the wind energy and automotive industries, in addition to prepreg producers,” says Ustunel. “Our new production lines will be up and running in February 2012.”

METYX Composites makes high-performance technical textiles including multiaxial reinforcements, carbon reinforcements, RTM reinforcements, woven rovings and woven roving tapes, geo textiles, vacuum consumables, surface veils and fabric kitting.