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Filament winding is a process that uses fiber and resin to create composite products by winding materials around a mandrel or core shape. It is commonly used to make circular hollow objects like golf clubs, bike parts, tanks, and boat masts. Key advantages are that filament winding produces lightweight, strong parts in an automated, scalable, and cost-effective manner. Examples of industries that use filament winding include construction, transportation, and aerospace.

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FWM Basics

Filament winding is a process that uses fiber and resin to create composite products by winding materials around a mandrel or core shape. It is commonly used to make circular hollow objects like golf clubs, bike parts, tanks, and boat masts. Key advantages are that filament winding produces lightweight, strong parts in an automated, scalable, and cost-effective manner. Examples of industries that use filament winding include construction, transportation, and aerospace.

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FILAMENT WINDING MACHIINE BASICS Filament winding is the process of winding fiber material and resin around a shape,

known as a mandrel, to create composite product. The process of filament winding is typically used to create circular composite products with a hollow core. The filament winding process can utalize many different fibers and resins to achieve desired characteristics for the finished component. The end result is an extremely efficient process to create low cost, lightweight, and strong composite materials. Examples of products created using the process of filament winding include:
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Golf clubs Bicycle components and tubes Transmission poles Sail boat masts Aircraft fuselages Gas, water, or tanks Cement Mixers Heavy duty construction products Pipes Advantages of Filament Winding Filament winding has many advantages in the process of creating hollow composite products. Advantages include:

Weight A key advantage to the filament winding process is that since all products are hollow and can be made without a permanent internal system, they are extremely light without sacrificing strength. Light products translate to lower costs to produce, transport, and ship. Design Changes in the design and engineering process using different techniques in winding, curing, and material options allow for variations in flexibility, strength, and pressure holding capacities (hoop strength). Automation Filament winding can be done in a high speed process using machines to quickly and accurately reproduce identical components. This process can include sophisticated machinery and software to create complex engineered non-circular composite materials. Since the process can be automated to a high degree, it is scalable and can allow for the precise mass production of highly complex components. Cost Effective By using low cost materials and automation the cost to produce components is substantially reduced. The process involves less material, less labor, and less transportation costs than many other forms of component manufacturing methods.

The process of filament winding is widely used in composite manufacturing to create highly customized hollow core structures that have unique flexibility and strength characteristics. The process allows for the creation of these structures in a scalable, automated, and cost effective format.

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