Aerospace Industry Overview

A world leader in carbon fiber and composite materials for commercial and defense aircraft, helicopters, engines, satellites and launchers, Hexcel is also a specialist in lightweight composite components including engineered core parts, HexMC® components and complete structures.


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Composite Materials

HexTow® Carbon Fiber

Aerospace qualified Standard Modulus and Intermediate Modulus fibers for weight-saving, stiffness and strength

HexTow®  Carbon Fibers
Redux® Adhesives

Film adhesives, foaming films and pastes for metal-to-metal and composite bonding.

Redux®  Adhesives
 
HexForce® Reinforcements

An extensive range of woven, UD and multiaxial reinforcements

HexForce®  Reinforcements & Fabrics
HexWeb® Honeycombs

Metallic and non-metallic cores for exceptional stiffness with virtually no added weight.

HexWeb®  Honeycombs
 
HexPly® Prepregs

Fiber-reinforcements impregnated with epoxy, phenolic, BMI or cyanate ester resin.

HexPly Prepregs
HexTOOL® Tooling Materials

For light weight and high tolerance accuracy machineable tooling.

HexTool Tooling Materials
 
HexFlow® Infusion Resins

RTM and VaRTM liquid resins for direct processing.

HexFlow Infusion Resins
HiTape® Advanced Reinforcements

High performacne unidirectional reinforcements

HiTape® Advanced Reinforcements
 

Engineered Products

HexWeb® EC Engineered Core

High quality honeycomb parts to precise customer specifications.

HexWeb EC Engineering
 
Acousti-Cap®

Broadband noise-reducing honeycomb solution for aircraft engines and nacelles.

Acousti-Cap
 
Fibrelam® Aircraft Flooring

Lightweight structural panels for selected aircraft programs.

FibreLam Aircraft Flooring
 
HexMC® Parts

Series production of high performance lightweight carbon fiber/epoxy parts.

HexMC Parts
 
Composite Structures

Lightweight, high-strength composite structures and assemblies.

Composite Structure