Photo Credit: Cevotec The Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology IGCV (Augsburg, Germany) reported that it has taken a SAMBA Pro Prepreg production system from Cevotec GmbH (Munich, Germany) into operation at its Fiber Placement Center (FPC, Meitingen, Germany) of which SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden, Germany), Cevotec and Coriolis Composites (Queven, France) are also partners. The system is at the disposal of all FPC industrial partners as well as all interested companies to develop automated carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) production processes on the basis of the Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology. “When Cevotec officially joined the FPC at JEC World 2019, it was clear that a Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) system would be installed in the FPC to provide our partners and customers with a complete portfolio of the latest technologies and developments for the next generation of composite manufacturing,” says Hannah Paulus, head of Fiber Placement Center at SGL Carbon. “The new SAMBA Pro Prepreg System from Cevotec offers many advantages for the production of complex-shaped components with short cycle times.” Cevotec, together with its partner Baumann Automation (Amberg, Germany), have commissioned the SAMBA Pro Prepreg production cell in Meitingen since November 2020. The company reports that it is now ready for operation, and the first application development projects have already been started.