NTT partners with Xolve to set up development program

NTT Carbon Fiber Group intends to develop with Xolve three main projects under the R&D business area, with the purpose to create innovative for the design, production, product support and services devoted to aerospace applications, with special hard environmental conditions needs. Xolve will provide full support during the development phase, working to combine Xolve technology to the TTT technology of NTT Carbon Fiber Group under this program.

“Our proprietary low-cost graphene production and dispersion technologies allow us to enhance numerous attributes throughout the resin matrix”, says Miguel Mireles, the Vice President of Business Development at Xolve. “We are confident that our technologies combined with NTT Carbon Fiber’s capabilities will allow us to provide additional multiple attribute improvements in many industries including aerospace, marine, automotive, and sports.”

Strategic aspects

The selected aerospace programs selected for this joint development are the front-end of a future deployment of graphene in industrial applications, other than aerospace.

Mr. C.H. Bosch from the R& D Business Area of NTT Carbon Fiber Group has recently confirmed: “Our idea is to develop prepregs, within our KOREPreg line, tailored for special applications. The goal is to obtain products purposed to extreme environments, using carbon nanotubes and graphene. Xolve reveals to be the best candidate, since their technology allows a very regular graphene foil and we expect its dispersion in resins to maintain a regular performance.”

As usual this is an investment in technology we make according our commitment to the continued technical and commercial development to improve our global performance, as well as operating investments to serve the market in the long term.

NTT Carbon Fiber Group maintains a long term outlook on its opportunity to collaborate with Xolve and its proprietary masterbatch dispersion technology. Its potential is to extend the development specifically created for the aerospace industry to other industries, among which we can count NTT Carbon Fiber Group’s projects in the high performance sports, as well as in the marine field, and in the automotive.

Both Xolve and NTT Carbon Fiber Group will receive benefit out of this joint research by further innovating and developing new composites for the benefit of customers in many different market segments.

Several new programs are currently being planned or developed by various NTT Carbon Fiber Group customers worldwide. The Xolve, NTT Carbon Fiber joint development will provide future state-of-the-art, efficient prepregging solutions focused initiallyin the aeronautic and aerospace segment.

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