Technical Resources
Composite Preforming, Documented
Reference material on tailored fiber placement — how the process works, where it outperforms conventional laminates, and the published research behind it.
Company overview
NextGen Web 3
A 12-page overview of NextGen Preforms' engineered fiber placement platform, including structural towpreg TFP, comingled thermoplastics, and STFP + SMC co-cure.
Prepared by NextGen Preforms
Process guide
What Is Tailored Fiber Placement?
How TFP stitches continuous carbon or glass tow along calculated load paths to build near-net-shape preforms for RTM, vacuum infusion and prepreg layup.
Written by NextGen Preforms
Engineering note
Open-Hole Performance in Composite Laminates
Why drilling a hole through a cured laminate severs the fibers carrying the load, and what changes when the opening is formed during preforming instead.
Written by NextGen Preforms
Research summary
IACMI: Tailored Fiber Placement for Complex Preforms
Summary of the public-release final technical report on TFP structural performance, produced by the University of Dayton Research Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Third-party report — UDRI / IACMI
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If you have a part you are trying to lightweight, consolidate or take cost out of, send us the geometry and load case and we will tell you honestly whether preforming helps. Request a quote.