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BRINGS TOGETHER THE IDEAS, SCIENCE, AND BUSINESS CONNECTIONS THAT ARE CREATING THE MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS OF THE FUTURE.

Join an incredibly diverse group of manufacturers, OEMs, innovators, suppliers, distributors, and educators as they present the latest advancements in composites manufacturing, product design, and materials engineering.

From aerospace to automotive, construction to marine, industrial manufacturing to sporting goods, CAMX is the place to replace the materials of yesterday with more cost-efficient, high-performance composites that can form a brighter future.

The composites and advanced materials industry is shaping the way products are designed and developed in powerful new ways. Lighter, stronger, and more energy efficient, composites are integral to the future of smart and innovative manufacturing and product solutions for the future.

A broad portfolio of materials for your Composites!

The composites market, a dual challenge of performance and sustainability!
 

Arkema's innovative and sustainable materials address some of the major challenges facing our society:

  • Decarbonizing the industry
  • Accelerating the development of new energies
  • Promoting the circular economy
  • Taking actions for health and well-being
Through our Resins, Additives, Adhesives and 3D printing solutions, Arkema offers higher performance and more sustainable solutions to meet the demands of the Composites market!


LEARN MORE ON OUR MATERIALS FOR COMPOSITES

Elium® resins, now available with recycled content

In 2023, Arkema is launching new Elium® resins using recycled contents that increase sustainability of composites parts.

A first generation of Elium® containing at least 18% of recycled material is already available on the most popular grades and a formulation with 92% of recycled material is currently under test.

The properties of these new Elium® resins remain the same as the previous grades with virgin components, from processability, manufacturing conditions to final composites and the same performance.
The only difference is a lower environmental impact of the matrix used to manufacture composites and more sustainable parts than ever with Elium®.
Elium® is a unique solution for manufacturing composite parts using the same methods as those used for standard liquid resin parts, and include the major advantages of a resin designed for recycling.
Composites parts and manufacturing wastes containing Elium® resin can be easily recycled by depolymerization or mechanical recycling enabling upcycling and circularity of composites wastes.
 

Learn more about Elium® solutions

Kepstan® PEKK, one K makes all the difference

Lightweight, strong and resistant to (almost) everything
 

This high-performance material provides a unique combination of properties over a very wide range of temperatures. This polymer family has exceptional advantages for processing and expands the application possibilities offered by the PAEK family. Kepstan® PEKK is widely used for the aerospace sector, in partnership with Hexcel.

Learn more about Kepstan® PEKK

UDX® Arkema composites
are also semi-finished products!

At CAMX you will also discover UDX® PPA and UDX® PA11 unidirectional carbon fiber tapes impregnated with bio-sourced and recyclable thermoplastic resins.

UDX® PPA is a very high performance product particularly suited to the manufacture of high-pressure hydrogen gas storage tanks, thanks in particular to the properties of Rilsan® Matrix, which makes up the matrix of this composite.
Rilsan® Matrix is a polypthalamide with a unique combination of properties:
  • high glass transition temperature (150°C), allowing it to resist the high self-heating of the tank during rapid filling,
  • low melting point (260°C) allowing a reasonable process temperature for the implementation of the composite tape and thus an easy manufacturing of the tank.
 
UDX® PA11 offers a unique solution for the storage of liquid hydrogen at cryogenic temperatures due to the properties of its polyamide 11 matrix. The high elasticity and stiffness of polyamide 11 combined with the lightness and stiffness of carbon fibers make UDX® PA11 a product that is also highly appreciated in the field of sports and leisure. The completely bio-based and recyclable property of polyamide 11 and its production method based on sustainable and eco-responsible agriculture make UDX® PA11 an absolutely unique product that customers adopt.

Additives for tougher composites
 

Whether you need to improve toughness, strength, curing, adhesion or simply initiate the polymerization of your matrix, we have a solution withing our portfolio.

Reinforce the thoughness of your system:
 
Clearstrength® XT MBS core-shell toughening agents enable a wide formulation versatility for the main types of matrixes on the market.

Sartomer® Advanced Resins masterbatch version of the core shell offers a ready to use uniform predispersion. Sartomer® liquid urethane (meth)acrylate oligomers can also be introduced into the matrix to fine-tune the mechanical properties.

Orgasol® ultra fine polyamide powders are particularly adapted to epoxy matrix, and they are highly efficient thanks to their spherical shape combined with a narrow particle size distribution.

Nanostrength® nanostructured acrylic block copolymers act as additives at the very heart of the material. They help enhance the impact resistance of the matrix with no loss of module or temperature stability. They can be used both in epoxy or vinyl ester composite matrices and in structural adhesives.

Graphistrength® carbon nanotubes significantly improve the mechanical strength of composites. They also prevent the build-up of electric charges in the resulting components.


 
Control the rheology of your composite:
Plastistrength® (meth)acrylic copolymers allow the viscosity control of (meth)acrylic and epoxy resins at low dosage.
 
Specialty crosslinkers and bio-based monomers:
The Sartomer® range of specialty (meth)acrylates and biobased monomers, with bio content above 25%, are crosslinkers of choice for (meth)acrylic and epoxy matrixes. These reactive diluents reduce VOCs, enhance mechanical properties and drive conversion while controlling the viscosity of the overall system.

 
Initiate polymerization efficiently:
Luperox® and Retic® organic peroxides answer your curing challenges with grades tailored to room temperature or elevated temperature polymerization. They are fine-tuned for thermosetting resins.

Sartomer® photoinitiators come in handy for hybrid systems involving a UV or LED curing step.

Adhesives and Sealant solutions

Bostik will showcase adhesive and sealants this year at CAMX, featuring PliogripTM 200/208 for primerless bonding of TPO and PP and PliogripTM 8300 flame retardant PUR for multi-material assembly in EV structures. We will also feature structural MMA (SAF,FIT & Pliogrip range), instant adhesives (Born2Bond™), and SMP sealants for seam sealing and glass bonding.   

3D Printing solutions meet composites

Arkema offers a comprehensive portfolio of high performance materials for additive manufacturing. The partnership between Continuous Composites and Arkema combines Continuous Composites’ patented continuous fiber 3D printing technology (CF3D®) with N3xtDimension® UV resin solutions. PolyMat™ High Tg was developed for printing of continuous carbon and glass fibers to produce lightweight, high temperature performance structures.

Designed for powder bed fusion, Rilsan® fine powders Polyamide 11 are 100% bio-based materials and recyclable thanks to Arkema’s Virtucycle® program.

Kepstan® PEKK has also partnered with 9T Labs (Zurich), a start-up specializing in the 3D printing of thermoplastic composites that has developed a technology to automate the manufacture of composites using AM and advanced software algorithms.

Piezotech®, electroactive polymers for high-tech applications

Arkema’s range of Piezotech® electroactive polymers offers endless possibilities by enabling motion or thermal energy conversion into electricity – and vice versa – with the intrinsic advantages of polymers: processability, flexibility, lightness & low cost.
 
These polymers have remarkable potential for monitoring the structural health of composites like hydrogen tanks, wind turbine blades etc.: high sensitivity to acoustic waves, deformation, and temperature. They are used in acoustic detection to identify cracks and impacts or in ultrasonic sensors to generate waves and then detect the differences in propagation, thus allowing a fine analysis of the structure.
 
Compared to standard piezoelectric ceramics, sensors based on Piezotech® can be mounted on curved surfaces because they are flexible. Also, due to their polymeric nature, they can be integrated into the core of composite like tanks and can be printed on large surfaces. The absence of toxic and non-recyclable heavy metals, their light weight and low energy consumption make them the materials of choice for the intelligent composites of tomorrow.

Our products

Thermoplastic resin Elium® for recyclable composites
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Discover Elium®, a thermoplastic resin from Arkema with unique properties, offering comparable performance to traditional ...
Rilsan® Matrix
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Rilsan® Matrix is a series of high temperature, high performance polyamide resins especially designed for light weight automotive ...

Graphistrength® multiwall carbon nanotubes
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Graphistrength® multi walled carbon nanotubes significantly improve the mechanical strength of composites. Dispersed in a ...

Nanostrength® self-assembling block copolymers
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Nanostrength® is a new family of self-assembling block copolymers that organize on the nanometer scale. When blended into a polymer ...

Luperox® peroxyketals
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Luperox® peroxyketals are used to synthesize polystyrene resins, and as crosslinking agents for polyolefins or engineered ...

Luperox® hydroperoxides
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Luperox® tertiary-butyl and tertiary-amyl hydroperoxides are widely used as chemical intermediates and as free radical ...

Sartomer® specialty acrylate monomers and oligomers 
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Specialty acrylate resins
Sartomer® specialty methacrylate monomers and oligomers
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Specialty methacrylate resins
Pebax® Elastomer Family 
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Pebax® thermoplastic elastomers consist of polyamide and polyether backbone blocks. ...

Kynar® Fluoropolymer Family
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Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) resins and copolymers designed for extreme inertness in harsh environments, flame & smoke properties, weather ...

Rilsan® Polyamide Family
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High performance polyamides that deliver toughness, flexibility, chemical resistance, and permeation resistance. Many grades are bio-based.

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Engineered resins for Pultrusion

Sartomer® resins include unique solutions to revolutionize the pultrusion ...

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Dec 11, 2023
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Efficient manufacturing of lightweight composite designs

Arkema and Continuous Composites are working together to disrupt the industry through their ... Read more
May 22, 2023
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Advanced Resins for Toughening

Advanced Resins empowered by additive technology to fine-tune performance. Offering ... Read more
Jan 1, 2023
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