Whois & Analysis for hexcel.com

Hexcel is a materials company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut (previously at 2332 Fourth Str., Berkeley, California), that manufactures composite materials and structural parts.

The company was founded in 1946, and its first product was supplying honeycomb for the construction of military bombers.

During the guided missile boom in the 1950s, and 1960s, Hexcel developed and manufactured honeycomb materials for Titan, Atlas, Polaris families of rockets, both military (ICBM) and space applications, Hawk guided missiles, and other military missiles and rockets, for spacecraft launch vehicles Saturn, Centaur, Mercury, Nova, as well as Gemini and Apollo space programs.

Line of aerospace products included ablative heat shield matrixes, common bulkheads, rocket engine nozzles, energy absorption materials.

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer, carbon fiber reinforced plastic or carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP or often simply carbon fiber, or even carbon), is an extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastic which contains carbon fibers.

The spelling 'fibre' is common in British Commonwealth countries.

Honeycomb structures are natural or man-made structures that have the geometry of a honeycomb to allow the minimization of the amount of used material to reach minimal weight and minimal material cost.

The geometry of honeycomb structures can vary widely but the common feature of all such structures is an array of hollow cells formed between thin vertical walls.

The cells are often columnar and hexagonal in shape.

A honeycomb shaped structure provides a material with minimal density and relative high out-of-plane compression properties and out-of-plane shear properties.

In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a "solid or highly viscous substance" of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers.

They are often mixtures of organic compounds, principally terpenes.

Many plants, particularly woody plants, produce resin in response to injury.

The resin acts as a bandage protecting the plant from invading insects and pathogens.

A Composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components.

The individual components remain separate and distinct within the finished structure.

The new material may be preferred for many reasons: common examples include materials which are stronger, lighter, or less expensive when compared to traditional materials.

More recently, researchers have also begun to actively include sensing, actuation, computation and communication into composites, which are known as Robotic Materials.