Composite presses

Composite presses

Your competitive benefits with WICKERT composite presses:

  • Customisable specific press dimensions from 5 – 75.000 kN with heating platen sizes up to 6,000 mm and over, as well as several tiers
  • Heating processes up to 500 °C
  • Heating/cooling processes up to 430 °C
  • Heating/cooling rates of 50 °K/min
  • Customised vacuum solutions up to 1 mbar final vacuum
  • Homogenous temperature distribution thanks to precision heating platens with accuracies of up to +/- 0.2 °K on the heating platen surface
  • High plan-parallelism with additional active plan-parallelism control up to 0.025 mm/m
  • Ergonomic operating height thanks to up-stroke design
  • Simple operation by intuitive “press-easy” control
  • “5-fold safety” of the mechanical components
  • 5 year warranty on all load-bearing parts

The following processes can be realised for the following materials amongst others, GFK, CFK, BMC and SMC: RTM and HP-RTM, Thermoforming, Compression presses, Pre-Preg, Wet-Layup, Preforming.