Carbon Fiber and
Composite Materials
2017
About
UMATEX Group is a management company and part of a new
Composite Materials Division of “ROSATOM” State Corporation.
Its comprising an R&D centre and enterprises manufacturing high-strength
and high-modulus carbon fibers (CF) and CF fabrics, was set up to form
a market of composite materials in Russia.
UMATEX Group includes the following entities that provides 95% of carbon fiber production in Russia:
• Management Company NPK Khimprominzhiniring, JSC, Moscow
• R&D Сenter, Moscow — the centre is involved in developing and integrating technologies for obtaining PAN precursor and carbon fiber
• ALABUGA-FIBRE, LLC — a state-of-the-art plant manufacturing carbon fiber in the special economic zone, Alabuga, Republic of
Tatarstan. The capacity of the line producing carbon fibers of different grades amounts to more than 1,400 tones per year. The plant
was officially opened in May of 2015
• Argon, LLC, Balakovo, Saratov Region — a plant producing carbon fibers for different applications
• C&CMP, LLC, Chelyabinsk — a plant producing carbon-based composites, carbon fiber reinforced plastics, heat insulating carbon
materials
UMATEX Group
UMATEX Headquarters
Moscow, Russia
Strategy, sales and
financing
Headquarters
R&D Center
Moscow
Trading House
Praha, Czech Republic
ARGON
Balakovo
R&D Center
Moscow, Russia
developing technologies for
obtaining PAN and carbon fiber
ALABUGA-FIBRE
Yelabuga, Russia
Capacity: more than 1400 t.
C&CMP
Chelyabinsk, Russia
carbon-based composites,
carbon fiber reinforced plastics,
heat insulating carbon materials
Trading House
Shanghai, China
Sales: carbon fiber, fabrics,
prepregs.
ALABUGA-FIBRE
Yelabuga
C&CMP
Chelyabinsk
ARGON
Balakovo, Russia
Carbon fiber and fabrics, 500 t.
Alabuga-Fibre is the biggest
CF plant in Russia
Carbon Fiber Properties
Umatex is an intermediate strength polyacrylonitrile (PAN)
based carbon fibеr. Umatex has been developed for Customer
to use it in industrial composite applications including aviation,
automobile, wind, marine, and other applications.
Specification
Type
Number of
filaments
Tensile strength,
GPa
Tensile modulus,
GPa
Elongation, %
Yield, tex
Density, g/cm3
UMT40
3000
4.0
260
1.5
180
1.77
UMT42
50000
4.2
240
1.6
3300
1.78
UMT45
12000
4.5
255
1.7
800
1.78
24000
4.5
255
1.7
1600
1.78
12000
4.9
255
1.8
780
1.78
UMT400
12000
4.2
400
0.7
720
1.82
UMT425
12000
4.2
425
0.65
700
1.85
Standard modulus
UMT49
High modulus
Fabrics
Unidirectional Fabric
Unidirectional Materials (Nonwoven)
UD fabric is a type of product in which over 75% of fibers are
oriented in the same direction. That allows obtaining optimized
operational properties for bearing loads in one direction.
Carbon yarns in non-woven materials are positioned exactly parallel to each other which enables obtaining outstanding mechanical
properties.
Fabric areal weight
130, 150, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800 gsm etc.
Fabric areal weight
50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800 gsm etc.
Fiber type
12K, 24K, 48K, 50K industrial grade carbon fiber and
others
Fiber type
12K, 24K, 48K, 50K industrial grade carbon fiber and
others
Resin compatibility
EP, VE
Resin compatibility
EP, VE
Weft system
glass, aramid, hot melt glass etc.
Binding system
glass and/or polyester scrim, epoxy powder binder
Fabrics
Balanced Woven Fabrics
Warp-knitted Multiaxial Fabrics
Balanced fabrics are produced from carbon fibers obtained via
exposure of organic fibers to high temperature in inert media.
Carbon materials are resistant to the majority of chemically aggressive reagents, have high tensile strength characteristics, low
coefficient of thermal expansion, low weight. All this allows using
fabrics in various industries.
Stable textile structures with excellent physical-mechanical properties where fibers are laid in various directions in layers then
stitched and/or bindered by epoxy resin.
Fabric areal weight
150, 200, 300, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1300 gsm etc.
Fiber orientation
0 / 90, ± 45 (can be varied between −30 / +30)
Fiber type
12K, 24K, 48K, 50K carbon fibers, 300–2400 tex glass
fibers and others
Fabric areal weight
200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800 gsm etc.
Fiber construction
plain, twill and others
Fiber type
3K, 6K, 12K, 24K industrial grade carbon and glass fiber
Resin compatibility
EP, VE
Resin compatibility
EP, VE
Stitch pattern
tricot, 1/2 tricot, pillar and others
R&D Center
R&D Center of UMATEX Group is a center of crystallization
of scientific ideas on the development of new production
technologies of PAN precursor and competitive (including
economic indicators) carbon fiber with high physicalmechanical properties and service department of scientifictechnical services of the Company — the initiator and
executor of the main R&D projects.
R&D Center Structure
Fiber Division
Composite Division
Polymer laboratory
Resin development laboratory
Precursor spinning laboratory
Intermediate products laboratory
Carbon fiber laboratory
Composite testing laboratory
Fiber Division's Latest Developments
• DMSO PAN-precursor technology for 4,5 Gpa Carbon fibers
• NaSCN PAN-precursor technology for 4,9 Gpa Carbon fibers
• Tailored epoxy compatible carbon fiber sizings for various applications
• Vinyl ester compatible sizing
Vinyl Ester Compatible Sizing
Test method
Toray
T700 – FOE 12K
UMATEX
UMT45-VE 12K
VE resin (DION 9300 FR REICHHOLD)
UMATEX
UMT45-VE 12K
VE resin (CRYSTIC
VE 679-03PA SCOTT
BADER)
Resin type
Reinforcement type
MA fabric, ±45, 300 gsm
MA fabric, ±45, 300 gsm
MA fabric, ±45, 300 gsm
Tensile strength, MPa
ASTM D3039
1250
950
950
Tensile modulus, MPa
ASTM D3039
60
65
70
Compression strength,
MPa
ASTM D695
500
500
550
ILSS, MPa
ASTM D2344
35
43
36
Composite Division's Latest Developments
Resin code
UMT-PM10
UMT-PM14
UMT-PM16
Tg dry
(E` onset), °C
100-110
115-120
135-140
Description
Application
Baseline, aesthetic

Superior toughness,
aesthetic
Fast curing
UMT-PM20
200
High temperature,
toughened
UMT-PM30
180
Flexible curing cycle
Available reinforcements
Arial weight, gsm
Fibre
200
UMT40-3K
400
UMT45-12K
600
UMT49-12K
UD
200
UMT49-12K
Twill
2×2
200
UMT40-3K*
600
UMT49-12K
UD
200
UMT49-12K
Twill
2×2
200
UMT40-3K*
600
UMT49-12K
 
UD
200
UMT49-12K

Twill
2×2
200
UMT40-3K
600
UMT45-12K


Type
Twill
2×2
R&D center capabilities
• Study of acrylonitrile polymerization process, obtaining polymer with specified characteristics
• Solution, suspension, emulsion radical polymerization
• Study of PAN precursor spinning process, obtaining precursor with specified characteristics
• Wet spinning in inorganic solvent (NaSCN)
• Wet spinning in organic solvents (DMSO, DMF, DMA)
• Air-gap spinning
• Study of technological process of carbon fiber production, obtaining CF with specified characteristics
• Oxidative thermal stabilization of PAN precursor
• High-temperature processing (carbonization) of oxidized PAN precursor
• Surface treatment of carbon fiber
• Development and investigation of polymeric binding and sizing compositions, allowing to achieve
maximum realization of mechanical properties of carbon fibers in polymer composite materials (CFRP)
• Prepreg development
• Composite manufacturing and testing
Thank you.