Still the best carbon fiber sheets and still the best prices

Sierra Composites still offers the best quality carbon fiber sheets AND at by far the best prices. In fact there is a very large difference in price, ranging from 60% to a stunning 140% higher.  Its been quite a while since we updated current carbon fiber sheet pricing from ourselves and some of our competitors. As you can see in the charts below, its obvious who has the best prices anywhere.  Have a look at  the chart below what the actual total delivered carbon fiber sheet price to you the customer actually is. Sierra Composites total cost is $16.90 , PC total cost is $26.43 and DP total cost is $40.52.

Chart A current pricing as of 6/21/2011

Carbon Fiber Sheet Comparison Table for thin veneer
	Sheet size	Sheet price	Price per sq/inch	Shipping cost	Total cost
Sierra Comp	11”x8”	$11.95	$0.13	$4.95	$16.90
DP	12”x6”	$21.57	$0.30	$18.95	$40.52
MV	12”x9.7”	N/A	No Longer Selling	N/A	N/A
PC	12”x6”	$15.99	$0.22	$10.44	$26.43
*shipping based on 3 day service. *note DP/MV/PC websites do not calculate shipping right up front before you have to provide all your info to checkout.

Chart B previous pricing

Carbon Fiber Sheet Comparison Table for thin veneer
	Sheet size	Sheet price	Price per sq/inch	Shipping cost	Total cost
Sierra Comp	11”x8”	$11.95	$0.13	$4.95	$16.90
DP	12”x6”	$21.57	$0.29	$15.95	$37.52
MV	12”x9.7”	$35.00	$0.30	$8.52	$43.52
PC	11”x11”	$19.99	$0.16	??	At least $19.99+
*shipping based on 3 day service. *note DP/MV/PC websites do not calculate shipping right up front before you have to provide all your info to checkout.

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Free Silver Texalium Sheet at Sierra Composites

From Dec 1st to Dec 31st, Sierra Composites is giving away a FREE 8″x5″ @ .015″ Silver Texalium sheet with 3M adhesive with every purchase. No catches or fine print besides limit one per order. Click on over to the Sierra Composites online store to take advantage of this FREE offer.

Fake Graphite Texalium Sheet (not carbon fiber)

Recently a B2B customer had sent us a sample of another fake carbon fiber type product. This time it is a fake Graphite Texalium sheet, often confused with carbon fiber sheet. Texalium is a high end raw fabric  fiberglass product made by Hexcel. Texalium is a high grade fiberglass that undergoes a process that applies a 200 Angstroms thin coating of aluminum, thus giving it the woven metal appearance. The aluminum base color can then be tinted by Hexcel to produce other colors such as the graphite steel color. It is used only as a top decorative layer on its own, or can be used in a laminate of carbon fiber with only the surface is the Texalium product. This fake sheet sample were sent does have what seems to be a Texalium or copy of that raw material as the base. Then it has a top layer of clear plastic vinyl that is .084″ thick on top and a .025″ thick layer of adhesive double sided tape on the bottom, making the entire thickness .109″ or approx 2.5mm. The top layer of plastic vinyl is very soft and can be easily permanently damaged by a simple fingernail mark. Most likely the plastic vinyl surface is also a very cheap grade that will yellow very quickly with any sunlight and be permanently damaged with most cleaning chemicals. Because there is actually nothing that makes this a composite, even at .109″ thickness it has zero structural qualities. If you see this product stay away from it at any price, as you will end up being very disappointed with it.

If you missed our article on fake carbon fiber sheet, click here to read it.

For real Hexcel Texalium sheets in silver and graphite colors visit our online store at www.sierracomposites.com

Carbon fiber signs at indoor karting and restaurant facility

 A couple years ago Sierra Composites teamed up with a design studio in Chicago to fabricate some custom carbon fiber sheets for one of their clients. Those carbon fiber sheet laminates were used around the facility as signage. They were made from our .059″ carbon fiber sheet and mounted to the walls with standoffs so they “floated” off the wall. We have had this photo for quite a while and forgot about it. Its a great photo showing how Sierra Composites carbon fiber products are used in may applications. The restaurant is Stewart’s Bar and Grille located in the Chicago Indoor Racing complex in Buffalo Grove Ill.

Custom size carbon fiber sheet and sandwich panels

Sierra Composites has been manufacturing custom sized carbon fiber sheets and sandwich panels for our customers for many years. If your project requires a size that you can not find in our standard size sheets, all you need to do is contact us with your requirements. We will get back to you asap with a pricing quote. Many times we can make your sheet along with others orders we are already working on. So don’t think your custom sized sheet or panel is going to cost more. If its just a small piece you need, we may even have that available as a cut off from another order. Please feel free to contact us with your custom carbon fiber sheet and panel sizes. Visit the Sierra Composites contact page

Corvette Z06 carbon fiber sheet fuel door

One of our great customers just sent us a few photos of Sierra Composites .015″ thin carbon fiber sheet veneer. The carbon fiber sheet with 3M adhesive backing was used as a veneer layer over the stock Corvette Z06 fuel door. The Corvette already has a very race car look to it, but the carbon fuel door gives it that extra detail. This project was simple and inexpensive to complete but makes a nice upgrade to the Corvette Z06. Sierra Composites manufactures the absoulute best carbon fiber on the market and has been for many years, that is why this Corvette has it and many SEMA show cars have Sierra Composites carbon fiber products on them as well. Don’t settle for immitations of our products. You can purchase these great products at www.sierracomposites.com

Sierra Composites making online carbon fiber shopping simple

Sierra Composites knows your online shopping experience needs to be clear and concise. Online customers don’t want to waste time trying to find out product information and certainly don’t want to waste time trying to figure out shipping costs from a generic shipping chart. That is why when you shop for your carbon fiber sheets and other carbon fiber products from Sierra Composites you can see beside each product what it’s availablity time actually is. When you decide to put a product into our steamlined shopping cart, you can easily enter your shipping info and instantly see what choices you have in shipping cost and time before entering personal info or checking out. By tailoring shipping to time and weight our products we are able to minimize your shipping costs. Even if we can only save you a few dollars in shipping, we would rather save you money than charge you more money than is needed.

But Sierra Composites wanted to go a little extra in our customer service. So we have been offering a Free Shipping offer along with a Flat Rate shipping offer for our many international customers.

*Just added October 15th* Sierra Composites is now offering international shipping of any of our 11″x8″ carbon fiber or texalium sheets for $13.95

Visit our online store at www.sierracomposites.com to take advantage of those great shipping offers.

Mercedes CLK GTR carbon fiber undertray

Sierra Composites has built and repaired pro racing carbon fiber undertrays. This Mercedes Benz CLK GTR has removable carbon fiber strakes on its front splitter undertray. It also illustrates the outer curved strakes directing airflow around the leading edge of the front tires. It takes special experience and knowledge to work on expensive prototype race car parts such as these. Contact Sierra Composites for this specialized work.

New $19.95 flat fee shipping International !

Sierra Composites wants to say thanks to our many international customers out by offering $19.95 Flat Fee USPS Priority International shipping. This applies to all of our international customers and to all stock items except square tubing. Make sure to take advantage of this offer in July.

Whether you need carbon fiber sheet, veneer, carbon fiber angle, carbon fiber sandwich panel, carbon fiber square tubing, basalt or texalium click over to our online store at www.sierracomposites.com

 

carbon fiber square tube - light - strong - straight

Recently Sierra Composites launched its 3″ carbon fiber square tube and then its 2″ carbon fiber square tube. After months of prototyping our finished tubing is really a great product. While this large scale carbon fiber tubing is not cheap, it does have at least one critical application where a carbon fiber tube must be lightweight, strong and straight, and may as well have a great finish look to it. For metrology services, these are the requirements. When a carbon fiber structure such as an aircraft wing, or tail or fuselage must be accurately measured, it must also be measured using tooling that has the same expansion co-effecient as the part being measured. Obviously only carbon fiber can meet the requirement, and just as obvious metals such as aluminum can not as they easily expand and contract with heat and cold.  The tooling weight can also play a major factor on the jobsite when a metrology service must transport and setup the measuring tools, even our currently largest carbon fiber square tube at 3″ x 3″ and 84″ long weighs only 6lbs.

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