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Exel Composites

Exel Composites specializes in developing and designing customer-tailored products in close co-operation with our customers, optimizing best balance of strength, stiffness, weight and cost. Exel has also a wide range of standard profile shapes available. They are always produced against orders and typically the minimum production quantity is between 200 and 2000 meters, depending on the shape, size and the material chosen.

Exel designs and produces composites profiles from simple rods to the most challenging solutions, including custom fabrication and installation. In order to design the final product right, it is necessary to take into account the environment where the product will be used. E.g. the chemical durability of a product can be substantially improved by changing the matrix material. The choice of materials depends on factors such as loads, electrical properties or weather resistance, e.g. UV shielding. Composite profiles are electrically non-conducting and have good corrosion resistance. Also the strength-to-weight ratio is excellent compared with traditional material. The weight of a glass-fibre reinforced product is about one quarter of the weight of a comparable steel product.

The production methods used by Exel are pultrusion, pull-winding, co-winding, continous lamination and pre-preg moulding. In continuous processes impregnated reinforcement fibres are drawn through a heated nozzle serving as a mould. The product cures into its final shape and the resin hardens in the mould.

Exel quality and environment policy complies with the requirements of the standards ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 (Bureau Veritas Certification).