Why is Carbon Fiber ideal for truss structures? The benefit of carbon fiber over conventional structural materials is the high strength and high stiffness to weight ratios. Now you can build these structures using DragonPlate materials. See How...

NEW! - Create Complex Structures Easily
DragonPlate carbon tube connectors incorporate universal design, allowing the user to create structures with a large variety of angles and connections. A separate diagonal connector bonded to the end of a carbon tube can be aligned at any angle, allowing for the creation of unique and custom designed structures.

DragonPlate carbon tube connectors are designed to be used specifically with our .5" pultruded and .5" wound tubes. These connectors are ideal for building light weight, cost effective, and complex structures.

NEW! - AVAILABLE IN .25", .5" AND .75" THICKNESSES
DragonPlate Nomex Honeycomb Core sheets are an excellent light weight composite sheet utilizing a Nomex Honeycomb core. Nomex honeycomb is the standard for lightweight non-metallic composite construction. Commercial Grade honeycomb made with aramid fiber paper (DUPONT Nomex or equivalent) coated with heat resistant phenolic resin offers excellent resiliency, low density, lower pricing and high strength to weight ratio.

Similar to our foam core product line, Nomex honeycomb is another type of sandwich panel. In essence an I-Beam, the honeycomb acting as the web, and the top skins acting as the flanges. The advantage over an I-Beam is the core creates a box structure giving the panel additional torsional rigidity. Another benefit of a core material is as the core thickness increases the panels stiffness increases dramatically. The Nomex honeycomb offers additional compressive strength with lower densities when compared to low density foam cores. Nomex Honeycomb also has properties include moisture resistance, energy absorption and sound and vibration dampening.

NOW AVAILABLE IN 3" x 3" AND 2" x 4" SIZES!
These new larger sized square and rectangular tubes are comprised of Carbon Fiber Braid and Unidirectional Fabrics. They are ideal for building light weight frames and structures such as trusses. Our Carbon Fiber square tubing has been engineered to be much stronger under torsional and side loading than pultruded tubing. Our tubing is also significantly lighter than pultruded tubing. Our carbon fiber square tube as been designed so that the unidirectional layers are captured in a sandwich structure, eliminating longitudinal cracking and splitting.

NOW AVAILABLE 1" THICK!
DragonPlate's carbon fiber Divinycell foam core utilizes Divinycell H100 high performance core. This is a medium density structural foam with very high strength to weight ratio. With very large strength properties, this carbon fiber foam core laminate is an excellent choice for heavier duty applications where lighter density foams struggle. Divinycell H100 is also an excellent damage tolerant foam and is ideal for impact applications. The lay-up design is quasi-isotropic, consisting of three layers of carbon fiber on each side of a Divinycell foam core center. Available in gloss, matte or texture on one side and texture on other side for bonding to other surfaces. For foam specifications, please refer to the official Divinycell Foam Data Sheet.

NEW PRODUCT!
DragonPlate carbon fiber C70-40 Airex foam core is a unique closed cell, cross-linked polymer foam core carbon fiber sheet. This is a lightweight structural foam sheet that has good impact strength. While great for high strength applications which require a low panel weight, this is a carbon fiber foam core laminate that can resist crushing forces and supply an adequate mounting surface. The lay-up design is quasi-isotropic, consisting of three layers of carbon fiber on each side of a Airex foam core center. Available in gloss, matte or texture on one side and texture on other side for bonding to other surfaces. For foam specifications, please refer to the official Airex Data Sheet.

NEW PRODUCT!
For less demanding non-cosmetic applications where you can live without the beautiful DragonPlate finish and the optimized material properties of a quasi-isotropic lay-up, we have introduced a new product called EconomyPlate. Our EconomyPlate offering is comprised of orthotropic (non quasi-isotropic) laminates utilizing a twill weave at 0°/90° orientation, while maintaining a symmetrical and balanced laminate. Instead of the standard gloss DragonPlate finish, a textured finish is supplied on both sides to keep the price low, while offering an excellent bonding surface. As with DragonPlate solid carbon fiber sheets, all laminates are composed entirely of a tough and rigid carbon reinforced epoxy matrix. Custom sizes and CNC machining are also available with EconomyPlate solid carbon fiber sheets.

NEW PRODUCT!
Carbon fiber corner gussets allow for a simple method to bond together flat stock. This is a simple way to create an array of structures using DragonPlate carbon fiber sheets, eliminating the extra cost unnecessary tube or beam supports. Our corner gussets are already molded to 90 degree angles, which will save much time and energy in assembly and the creation of fixtures. Our carbon fiber corner gusset can also work well with our square tubing as an alternative to our three way corner gusset. These carbon fiber gussets are made with a texture by texture finish for an ideal bonding surface, utilizing a quasi-isotropic, symmetrical lay up schedule and a rigid epoxy matrix. Our corner gussets have been designed to work with our Scotchweld #2216 epoxy adhesive kit which is an ideal structural adhesive with extremely high shear and peel strengths.

LIGHTWEIGHT AND STRONG! This versatile tubing is comprised of Carbon Fiber Braid and Unidirectional Fabrics, ideal for building light weight frames and structures. Our Carbon Fiber large tubing has been engineered to be much stronger under torsional and side loading than pultruded tubing. Our carbon fiber tubing is also significantly lighter than pultruded tubing. Carbon fiber large tube as been designed so that the unidirectional layers are captured in a sandwich structure, eliminating longitudinal cracking and splitting. The finish on this product is different from our other product lines. These tubes show the texture of the carbon fiber braid with a wet shiny appearance. NEW! TUBE SPLICES Now you can create custom length square tubes! These splices join our carbon fiber large square and rectangular tubes to create any length you need. Made of multiple layers of carbon fiber, these splices fit on the inside of our tubes making near seamless tubes of any length!

NEW PRODUCT!
Now you can build super strong carbon fiber structures with our new gussets for our carbon fiber square tubes!

Gussets are widely used to reinforce tube structures but are commonly made from heavy materials. Our new gusset kits allow for an infinite combination of lightweight structures to be built with our square and rectangular tubing. Each gusset is a solid carbon fiber DragonPlate laminate. The laminate thickness is equal to our tubing wall thickness. The front face of the gusset has our low glare, scratch resistant matte finish, and the back has a peel ply finish that is ideal for bonding. Our gusset plates have been designed to work with our Scotchweld #2216 epoxy adhesive kit. This is an ideal structural adhesive with extremely high shear and peel strengths.

Each kit includes a set of pre-drilled gussets and enough blind rivets to help locate and hold the gusset plates to the tubes during bonding.

Volume discount does not apply.

Solid Carbon Fiber Sheets
For applications that require solid carbon fiber laminated sheets, DragonPlate offers solid carbon fiber sheets which utilize balanced and symmetrical lay-up schedules of 90 degree and 45 degree 3k plain weave fabric referred to as quasi-isotropic. All DragonPlate solid carbon panels are composed of a tough, and rigid carbon reinforced epoxy matrix without any core material.

Birch Core Carbon Fiber Sheets
Our fabrication process produces a sandwich structure that is exceptionally flat, stable and lighter than a solid carbon fiber panel. DragonPlate Carbon Fiber Birch Core Laminate Sheets are currently available in thicknesses from .025 to .250 inches thick. Standard sizes range from 6 x 6 inches up to 24 x 48 inches. Custom sizes are available upon quotation.

DragonPlate Veneer is capable of forming to a cylindrical diameter as small as 1 inch! It will easily wrap around a coffee mug! DragonPlate Carbon Fiber Veneer can be easily cut with shears or heavy scissors and the edges can be sanded smooth. Why settle for a simulated carbon fiber decal when you can now get the real thing!

AVAILABLE IN SCRATCH RESISTANT MATTE FINISH!
Dragonplate veneer sheets are available in a glossy finish and also a scratch resistant matte finish (see picture to left for comparison). Our veneers come ready to install with contact cement or for quick and easy installation, we offer a veneer with self adhesive backing. Simply peel and stick! See how easy it is to install. View our Dashboard Veneer Installation How-to.

DragonPlate veneer is currently available in stock sizes up to 48 x 96 inches with custom sizes available upon quotation.

Pultruded in an epoxy resin, DragonPlate Carbon Fiber Tubes, Rods and Strips are exceptionally straight and rigid and are an ideal building material for frames, trusses and for use as reinforcing material. Because tubes, rods and strips are fundamental building blocks, they find great utility in the building of engineering and high performance structures, and work well in concert with other DragonPlate carbon fiber products.

DragonPlate Carbon Fiber Tubes Rods and Strips are easy to work. They can be cut with a band saw, coping saw, scroll saw, end mill, or dremmel tool. Because DragonPlate Carbon Fiber Tube, Rod and Strip are pultruded in an epoxy matrix they will bond readily with ScotchWeld 2216 epoxy resin.

DragonPlate Pultruded Carbon Fiber is available in various sizes and lengths.