Sam Oliver, Managing Director shares a unique insight into why PRO-SET® Epoxy is becoming the solution for supporting cost-efficient and sustainable manufacturing practices within automotive and composite industries. Manufacturing high-quality composite parts can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, consequently driving up costs and potentially leading to inefficient environmental practices.
Q. Can you provide an overview of PRO-SET® Epoxy and its applications?
A. “As an industry leader, we provide high-quality room temperature and post-cured adhesives, epoxy lamination and infusion solutions. These offerings are specifically designed to meet the demands that meet the sophisticated requirements of advanced composite fabricators. Our core expertise lies in developing epoxy formulations that effectively address the distinctive challenges and stringent demands of advanced composite manufacturing. By offering versatile and high-performance epoxy products, we want to empower fabricators to achieve superior results in their composite applications, that is where we see our success and further growth.”
Q. What industries and applications demonstrate the exceptional performance of PRO-SET® Epoxy products?
A. “Our epoxy systems are engineered to offer superior processing characteristics that ensure smoother workflows for fabricators. We offer enhanced cured mechanical properties, and our products guarantee stability and strength essential for demanding applications. Within composite manufacturing, having a durable and lightweight final product can be fundamental to success. We provide the solution. Our epoxies have proven successful in fast-paced, world championships in marine and automotive spheres, demonstrating their effectiveness as lightweight, strong and robust materials when facing tough competition and extreme conditions. In the automotive industry, our epoxies excel. They enhance composite manufacturing processes, leading to superior part performance across a range of applications, from lightweight carbon fibre structures to integral body components. We understand the importance of efficiency and quality in automotive manufacturing, and our epoxies are designed
to help you achieve both.”Q. Beyond price, delivery, and global logistics, what additional value do you offer your customers?
A. “Aside from the superior qualities and characteristics our epoxies and adhesives obtain, the efficiency of manufacturing can be improved with low post-cure energy saving. Our products have been developed to streamline processes, removing unwanted bottlenecks and maximising what manufacturing capabilities each business has. A great example of the value we can offer is within the very top end of sailing competition. These competitions provide a testing place for materials, technology and human endeavour where design factors are so critical, that it’s paramount to use the very best materials and techniques that allow the design engineers value to be fully capitalised.”
Q. What cost savings have customers experienced when using PRO-SET® Epoxy products?
A. “Cost savings are not only resources but time. Time is crucial in manufacturing and providing crucial parts can accelerate processes and drive more manufacturing by reducing time in laminating or infusion of components through low post-curing. Our laminating and infusion epoxies, their post-cures are shorter, up to half the time of the industry standard and at a lower temperature which can be fundamental. Epoxy is excellent in allowing for light composite structures to benefit even more from a reduction in the weight on individual parts which in turn, aid a reduction of an overall composite structure. This allows a final product to be produced which can, and has proven to be incredibly cost-efficient due to its weight.”
Q. How does PRO-SET® Epoxy compare to other epoxies available on the market?
A. “Our heritage spans from the 1980s and from the beginning we’ve sought to provide comprehensive technical support and share our extensive knowledge with customers that supports them to maximise every corner of manufacturing where PRO-SET Epoxy is used. We offer an array of products, but specifically bespoke custom-formulated products to meet the needs of manufacturing processes and demands which is pivotal for optimal performance.”