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The advent of new technology for designing insulation materials with desired properties stimulates our interest in development of insulation spacers in gas-insulated switchgear (GIS). Tailoring of two kinds of epoxy-based composite materials (resins) with different relative permittivities enables development of insulation spacers with graded permittivity that decrease the diameter of a GIS tank. Computational fluid dynamics for the resin injection process based on the properties of resin mixtures at various mixing ratios between two resins with high/low relative permittivity enables us to estimate the injection behavior and distribution of resins in the manufacturing of insulation spacers. Simulation results demonstrated the gradient of resins in the insulation spacers by this resin injection method using two resins. In particular, the insulation spacer formed by two or four injection inlets have a more favorable distribution of resins than that achieved by one injection inlet.