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Johns Manville will present its engineered products in glass fibers and nonwoven glass and synthetic mats. Innovative products, such as MultiStar 574 Roving used in polyurethane LFI processes, will be demonstrated with real-life examples of end-use applications. Emerging technologies in thermoplastic composites will be highlighted, including innovations in in-mold caprolactam polymerization using pioneering StarRov Rovings. Multiple innovative technologies will be displayed through woven fabric constructions for use in continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites. JM will also showcase applications in SMC and engineered thermoplastics processes, both reinforced with JM MultiStar Roving for SMC and ThermoFlow 672 for PA6 and PA6.6.
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Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic (CFRT) provides longer term preservation of dry prepreg, higher toughness, easier process and better recyclability than traditional continuous fiber reinforced thermoset. To meet the development of CFRT, Jushi group supplies three fiberglass roving with paper core —362C, 352A and 352C to the global market. Hard paper core guarantees the smoothness of outside unwinding in the forming process of CFRT sheet. 362C is suitable for PP resin and 352A for PA/PET resin and 352C for PP/PA resin. www.jushi.com
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Innovative fibers and mats

> Booth G46

Outside unwinding roving for CFRT process

> Booth K19

High Performance Filler and Additives

> Booth F25

The Mineral Engineers help to create unique filler solutions with raw materials by developing innovative and functional High Performance Fillers and additives on a mineralogical www.jm.com & www.jmfibers.com and synthetic basis. High performance fillers play a prominent First all black Twaron fiber produced > Booth H63 role in the production of thermosets. The high demands, such as Aramid is difficult to dye by nature, but it is now possible to prohigh strength and high degrees of thermal resistance, can be met duce black threads of the same quality. Twaron is five times stronby means of functional fillers. In addition their use in the finished ger than steel at the same weight and is often used in bullet-proof articles brings about optically sophisticated, resistant surfaces. Our vests, ropes and cables, sails and firefighter suits. At the request of high performance fillers are mineral powders with an extremely customers in the sailing and sports industries, Teijin Aramid started to high degree of chemical purity, very good chemical resistance and a investigate other colors for Twaron. Twaron Black will soon be seen very low binder requirement. The modern and flexible production for the first time in the sails of the world’s largest ocean sailing race, the facilities with its experienced personnel adjust itself flexibly and Volvo Ocean Race. For the threads to become completely black, they quickly to new problems and products. are not dyed afterwards, like cotton fibers. The production process www.hpfminerals.com has been adjusted to inject the fiber with the black dye during the process. This makes it the first black aramid fiber with characteristics that are equivalent to the standard golden yellow fiber. Gert Frederiks, CEO of Teijin Aramid, explains: “With Twaron Black, it is possible to combine the special characteristics of the aramid fiber with a beautiful look. Black aramid fibers have already been produced in the world, but they do not have the same characteristics (modulus) as the standard Twaron aramid fiber.” Aramid fibers are frequently used in water sports and sportswear, but combined with carbon. “For example, you often see the golden yellow of aramid in sails on a professional yacht or the underside of a canoe. With Twaron Black, it becomes part of the whole and maintains the same characteristics.” www.teijinaramid.com
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Low Twist Flax roving for pultrusion, filament winding

> Booth M80

Safilin’s Low Twist Flax Roving enabled the company Innobat to win the 2011 JEC Award for their project of bio based composite pultruded window profiles. In 2012 we Safilin have improved our products to match the markets need for high performance natural fibers. Our flax roving has been sucessfully used in pultrusion but also in filament winding. Today tests are being conducted in long fiber reinforced compounds, multiaxial fabrics and much more. Flax is the only massively available natural fiber grown in Europe enabling to produce low twist rovings with the necessary dry mechanical properties and showing great results in a composite material. Flax is grown without irrigation and barely any chemicals making of flax fiber the greener fiber available for composites. www.safilin.fr No71 March 2012 /

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http://www.jushi.com http://www.jm.com http://www.jmfibers.com http://www.hpfminerals.com http://www.bighead.co.uk http://www.teijinaramid.com http://www.safilin.fr
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