Innovative Advanced Composite Materials for Various Industries

2017

UMATEX Group includes the following entities that provides 95% carbon fiber production in Russia:

• Management Company NPK Khimprominzhiniring, JSC, Moscow

• ALABUGA-FIBRE, LLC - a state-of-the-art plant manufacturing carbon fiber in the special economic

zone, Alabuga, Republic of Tatarstan. The capacity of the line producing carbon fibers of different

grades amounts to more than 1,400 tones per year. The plant was officially opened in May of 2015;

• Argon, LLC, Balakovo, Saratov Region - a plant producing carbon fibers for defense enterprises,

nuclear, aviation, rocket and space and civil industries;

• ZUKM, LLC, Chelyabinsk - a plant producing carbon-based composites, carbon fiber reinforced

plastics, heat insulating carbon materials;

• R&D center, NPK Khimprominzhiniring, JSC, Moscow - the center is involved in developing and

integrating technologies for production PAN precursor and carbon fiber.

UMATEX Group is a management company and part of a new promising

Composite Materials Division of “ROSATOM” State Corporation.

Its’s comprising an R&D centre and enterprises manufacturing high-

strength and high-modulus carbon fibers (CF) and CF fabrics, was set up

to form a market of composite materials in Russia.

About UMATEX Group

Types of products UMATEX Group

Carbon Fibers

PAN-precursor

Polymer Resins

Fabrics

Prepregs

Definition of Composite Materials

Composite materials — non-

homogenous solid materials consisting

of two components: reinforcing

component and matrix providing joint

work of reinforcing components.

Reinforcing component (fiber,

particles, etc.) defines mechanical

characteristics of a material:

strength, stiffness and deformability.

Matrix (resin) provides monolithic

character of a material, stress transition

in reinforcing component elements and

resistance to various exposures.

Features of composite materials:

• Two and more components

• Clear interphase boundary

• New unique properties different from properties

of its components

• Non-homogenous in a microscale, but

homogenous in a macroscale

• Composition, form and distribution of

components are designed in advance

Reinforcingcomponent

Matrix

Classification of Composite Materials

By mechanical structure

Dispersion-reinforced or dispersion-

strengthened (with a filler in the form

of finely dispersed particles)

Fibrous (reinforced with fibers or

filamentary crystals)

Layered (reinforced with films,

plates, fabrics; the filler and the

matrix are located in layers)

By matrix nature

Ceramic (CCM)

Polymer (PCM) Carbon-carbon (CCCM)

Metal (MCM)

Comparison of different materials properties

Density (kg/m3)

Tensile strength (MPa)

Tensile modulus (GPa)

CFRP – Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics

Definition and main properties of Carbon Fibers

• From 1,000 to 320,000 filaments

• Filament’s diameter from 4 to 8 microns

• Carbon content in the fiber — from 92 to 99%

• Low density ( Τ1 4 of steel)

• High strength

(Specific strength 10 times stronger than steel)

• High modulus

(Specific modulus 10 times stronger than steel)

• High resistance to fatigue

• Good electric conductivity

• High corrosion and chemical resistance

• X-ray transparency

• High heat resistance (400–450°С in the air)

Carbon fiber (CF) — a material which consists of filaments with a

diameter of 4–8 microns formed mainly by carbon atoms (92–99%).

Types of carbon fiber:

— “Small” yarns: 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24K (from 1,000 to 24,000 filaments)

— “Big” tows: 48(50) and 320K (from 48,000 to 320,000 filaments)

Properties of carbon fiber:

Classification of Carbon Fibers

(by mechanical properties)

Type Modulus Strength

ILow modulus ‘LM’

(up to 200 GPa)up to 3.5 GPa

IIStandard modulus ‘SM’

(200–280 GPa)

3.5–5.0 GPa

(high-strength)

IIIIntermediate modulus

‘IM’ (280–325 GPa)

3.5–7.0 GPa

(high-strength)

IVHigh modulus ‘HM’

(325–450 GPa)2.5–5.0 GPa

V

Ultra high modulus

‘UHM’

(more than 450 GPa)2.5–4.0 GPa

CF classification

Te

ns

ile

str

en

gth

,G

Pa

100 200 300 400 500 600 700

Tensile modulus, GPa

800 900

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

III

IIIV

I

V

Process chain for production final products based

on carbon fiber polymer materials

Carbon fiber

Chopped fiber

Final

products

Textile structures: carbon fabrics, tapes, braids

Prepregs

Filament winding, Pultrusion

Cutting

Spray lay-up

SMC, BMC

Weaving

UD-tapes/Fabrics impregnation

Hand lay-up,

Vacuum infusion,

RTM,

RIFT,

VARTM,

RFI

Tows

impreg-

nation

Vacuum

bagging,

autoclave

molding

Integration of Carbon Fiber into various fields

Industrial application Aviation Sport & leisure

(Kto

ns/

year

)

Main consumers of Carbon Fibers in the World

Other industries

Oil and gas

Chopped fiberConstruction and

infrastructure

Vessels

Car construction

Windenergy

Sport

Aircraft construction

and defense

North

America

Asia

Japan

Others

Europe

China

Carbon fiber UMATEX Group

2016

Toray carbon fibers

12/24K

Tensile strength: 4.5 – 5.5 GPa

Tensile modulus: 250 – 300 GPa

50K

Tensile strength: 4.2 – 4.5 GPa

Tensile modulus: 230 – 250 GPa

3/6K

Tensile strength: 4.0 – 4.5 GPa

Tensile modulus: 240 – 250 GPa

These properties hit the most massive applications:

automotive, wind energy, construction, sport&leisure

goods and aviation

CF 12/24K is as a raw material to make ‘HM’ CF:

Tensile strength: 4.0 – 4.5 GPa

Tensile modulus: up to 500 GPa

UMATEX Group’s strategy for carbon fibers

Target properties of carbon fiber UMATEX Group:

LLC Alabuga-Fibre is the biggest CF plant in Russia and in CIS countries

Alabuga-Fibre carbon fiber technology

Oxidation – multi-stage heat treatment of PAN-

precursor at 200-300°C in the air atmosphere

Carbonization – increasing the carbon content in the fiber

when it is heat-treated at 300-1500°C in an inert

atmosphere due to removal of heteroatoms in the form of

volatile products

Surface treatment is used to improve

wettability and adhesion of polymer resins to the

carbon fiber surface (the sizing also serves

to improve carbon fiber processability on

subsequent technological processes)

Oxidation

Carbonization

Surface treatment(electrochemical +sizing)

Unwinding

Winding

Carbon Fiber Properties

UMT is a high strength and high modulus polyacrylonitrile (PAN) based carbon fibеr. It has been developed for

Customer to use it in industrial composite applications including aviation, automobile, wind, marine and others

High strength and high modulus

Carbon fibers UMATEX Group

Carbon fiber type

Number of

filaments,

K

Yield,

tex

Tensile

strength,

Gpa

Tensile

modulus,

Gpa

Elongation at

break,

%

Density,

g/cm3

‘SM’

UMT40 3 180 4.0 260 1.5 1.77

UMT42 50 3300 4.2 240 1.6 1.78

UMT45

12 800 4.5 255 1.7 1.78

24 1600 4.5 255 1.7 1.78

UMT49 12 780 4.9 255 1.8 1.78

“IM” UMT45/290 12 740 4.5 290 1.5 1.75

“HM”

UMT400 12 700 4.5 400 1.1 1.78

UMT450 12 650 4.6 430 0.9 1.85

UMT530 12 600 4.0 530 0.7 1.90

UMT Carbon Fiber Properties

All types of CF can be produced with EP or VE sizing

Structural External Reinforcement System

+ resin system

Structural External Reinforcement System

№(company)

Object Status amount of material

m2 kg

1. Pipe complete - 67

2. Production building complete 900 207

3. Crane beams complete 314 73

4. Roof beams complete 320 74

5 Building complete - -

TVEL

6. Production building complete 750* 400

7. Production building complete 300 69

8. Production building complete 55 13

9. Production building complete 256 59

More than 10 buildings reinforced

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