The Araldite® range has a history as one of the most widely used adhesives in the automotive sector because of its structural stability and flexibility and its resilience to vibration. It was used on the car that Donald Campbell drove to break the 1960 world land speed record in the ‘Bluebird 3’.
Every car manufacturer is looking for new materials that will enable them to make lighter weight cars with improved safety features at a lower cost. In the last year Huntsman has developed resin systems suitable for out-of-autoclave processes such as high pressure resin transfer molding (HP-RTM) or compression moulding, meeting growing demand for shorter production cycles mainly for automotive mass production.
The successor to the Murciélago, the Aventador LP700-4, was unveiled in 2011 and is now gaining widespread recognition as an extremely important model, being the first flagship from Automobili Lamborghini SpA to feature a production carbon fibre chassis, made using an Araldite® resin system for Resin Transfer Molding (RTM).
While traditional composites used in the luxury sports car industry have typically utilised aerospace-derived prepreg materials for autoclave cure, out-of-autoclave processes are now believed to provide unparalleled efficiencies in terms of cost and production rate, while leaving performance and quality unaffected. Among these processes, Lamborghini is focusing on liquid resin processes (VaRTM and RTM), oven-cure prepregs, preforming technologies (braiding, non-crimp fabrics and thermoforming), and advanced compression molding
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