Commissioning of WICKERT RTM-press completed

Modern equipment from the German manufacturer Wickert Maschinenbau GmbH opens up new opportunities for manufacturing large-size parts using RTM technology.

A new press with a clamping force of over 1350 tons is designed for medium-term production of products made of composite materials. Equipped with a pull-out table with dimensions of 3.5x3.5 meters, an automatic system for loading the raw material and unloading the pressed, active control of the parallelism of the plates and the accuracy of maintaining the pressing pressure.

Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) is the process of producing composite components within a mechanically-clamped, rigid, normally two-part mould. The advantages of a "closed mould" process are considerable but include the following:

Volatile emissions (styrene etc) are significally reduced

It is fast, clean and repeatable process

The laminate thickness can be controlled

The process is far less reliant on the manual skills of the operator

The "B" surface of the moulding can be accurately defined

The process can be automated

About WICKERT

Jakob WICKERT founded the J. WICKERT machine factory in Landau on 4t' May 1901. Together with 8 journeymen and 5 apprentices he began to build presses. What could be more natural in today's largest winegrowing community in Germany than to develop and produce presses for the wine and fruit growing industries?

The hydraulic down-stroke wine press brought out in June 1938 for example shows that WICKERT presses have always fulfilled the highest standards. The spindle wine presses available in different sizes were also fitted with modern hydraulic pressing mechanisms. Right from the beginning Jacob WICKERT gave great thought to how his experience in press construction could be applied to other fields. 1939 saw the development of drainage presses for cotton. By 1948 the dellvery scope had expanded to basically include the range that is still valid today.

About NCC

Nanotechnology Center of Composites (NCC) today is 200+ highly-qualified specialists from all over the world, 14000+ sq. m. of production facilities and 100+ units of high-tech production and lab equipment plus dozens of patents.