Aston Martin and TenCate announce technical partnership

TenCate Advanced Composites, a leading global developer and manufacturer of advanced composite materials, and Aston Martin announce their technical partnership for the Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar programme. TenCate is the composite technology partner of the Aston Martin Valkyrie programme, supplying advanced composite materials for a broad range of end-use applications throughout the car, including structural, cosmetic and high-temperature components.

This technical partnership is the first advanced composite material partnership for Aston Martin. TenCate's Expert Services team has worked closely with Aston Martin to ensure the best possible composite material solution for the programme, developing custom material forms where needed to best meet the unique application demands.

The Aston Martin Valkyrie is built around a lightweight carbon fibre structure, and boasts truly radical aerodynamics for unprecedented levels of downforce in a road-legal car. To support the programme, TenCate will supply a full material solution with the provision of surfacing films, film adhesives, honeycomb core and their heritage TenCate AmberTool composite tooling prepregs. Materials will be supplied from TenCate's European Centre of Excellence for thermoset systems, Langley Mill, U.K.