Tepex - PA, PP, PPS, TPU - Bond Laminates GmbH

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Locally Reinforced Parts: Tailor-made Light
...tructures. Aside from polypropylene matrix polymer, engineering thermoplastics are suitable. The feasibility of localised fabric reinforcement in combination with engineering thermoplastics has already been demonstrated here with PA6.6 and Tepex fabrics (manufacturer: Bond-Laminates). Future developments, aside from the use of alternative fibres and matrix systems, include the use of combined processes. Large-area parts with low wall thickness and high mechanical properties, for instance, cannot...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Reinforced Plastics: Caught Up Again
...ed profiles are considerably lighter than metal profiles. Stükerjürgen also had profiles on display, which are used primarily in aviation. The material combinations employed here include CF/PEI and GF/PA. Where flat inserts are required, the Tepex produced by Bond-Laminates can suitably be used. The company's stand presented a study on the basis of a front end module that had been carried out in conjunction with a number of partners. (Fig.3). Tepex is marketed both as a completely consolida...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-01-31, LFT Parts: Local Continuous-fibre Reinforcement
...h results, besides the polypropylene matrix polymer, engineering thermoplastics are also used. The feasibility of local fabric reinforcement combined with engineering thermoplastics has been already illustrated here by means of PA66 and Tepex fabrics manufactured by Bond-Laminates. References 1 Wakeman, M. D.; Beyerle, P.; Eble, E.; Månson, J.A.E.: Neue Hybridkonzepte: Stand der Technik in 2010 für strukturelle Anwendungen im Automobil. EATC Automotive-Seminar, 1st–2nd July 2003, Wolfsburg 2 Hü...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-12-17, Short Process for Hybrid Structures
...e effect of the glass fiber is counteracted by a hardened steel insert which can be replaced after a certain service life [5]. Practical Implementation The experiments were performed on glass-reinforced polypropylene semi-finished fabric (grade: Tepex dynalite, 47 vol.-% GF; manufacturer: Bond Laminates) for the forming structure and a short glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene with a fiber content of 30 wt.-% (grade: Hostacom PC072 / 3; manufacturer: Basell) for the rib material. Preheating b...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-03-17, Lighter than Steel
...e mechanical performance of organosheet hybrid components was analyzed in 3-point bending tests with the hybrid components in the form of Erlanger test beams. The test beams studied were a hybrid beam combining organosheet (2 mm, Tepex from Bond-Laminates, Brilon, Germany) with glass-fiber-reinforced polyamide 6 (Durethan BKV 30) and a hybrid beam combining steel sheet (0.7 mm) with Durethan BKV 30. At the beginning of flexural loading, the organosheet hybrid component is not quite as stiff as t...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-09-23, Resource Efficient Lightweight Design for Mass Production
... acceleration in driving operation (gravitational acceleration 1 g = 9.81 m/s2) and for a 10 g crash case. For the battery casing, the LFT basic material was combined to two layers of fully consolidated PPGF47 woven fabric (type: Tepex; manufacturer: Bond-Laminates GmbH, Brilon, Germany). Loads are applied to the battery modules via light-metal crossheads from AIMgSi0.5 and internal steel inlays from H420LA [10] into the LFT/woven fabric structure of the side walls and the ground area. The intri...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-06-25, An Energy Efficient Process for Lightweight Construction
... circulating air oven were assessed using a three point bending test based on DIN EN ISO 14125. The base material was a four layer, polyamide 6 based fiber composite organosheet with a glass fiber volume fraction of 45 % (grade: Tepex dynalite 102-RG600(4)/45 %;manufacturer: Bond-Laminates GmbH). Sample length, bearing distance and testing speed of the samples with a width of 15 mm were adjusted depending on the sample thickness so that results could be compared to one another. The thermistor pr...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-09-17, Integrative Simulation of Hybrid Composite Parts
...ermined not only at angles of 0°, 45° and 90° (with respect to the orientation of the reinforcement), but also at angles in between. For this purpose, specially designed test specimens were prepared in 7.5° increments from composite sheet (Tepex dynalite, supplier: Bond-Laminates) and tested. On the basis of the results from these measurements, a new material model for composite sheet that precisely describes its anisotropic behavior was created. It has been implemented as a ”plug-in” for the co...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-03-21, Novel Material Concepts: Sustainability and Design
...utinized carefully. For instance, an automobile seat shell manufactured from a continuous glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite is being used for the first time in the Opel Astra GTC-OPW (Fig. 1). The material used is Tepex dynalite 1 0 2 - RG 6 0 0 ( 2 ) / 4 7 %-1.0 mm from the Lanxess subsidiary Bond-Laminates GmbH, Brilon, Germany. The seat shell is very rigid, has a high impact strength and can absorb a great deal of energy in a crash, ensuring a high level of safety. In this regard...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-06-17, New Polyamide 6 Compound
...und containing 55 % short glass fibers has very good flowability, despite its high fiber content. This makes it possible to produce very thin-walled lightweight composite parts with large flow length/wall-thickness ratios. Hybrid technology based on Tepex continuous fiber-reinforced composites overmolded with Durethan polyamides has tremendous potential in lightweight automotive design as an alternative to metal parts, for example in the fabrication of front ends, brake pedals and seat shells. L...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polyamides (PA)
...ed products and prepregs, cutting and forming the non-woven prepregs prior to overmolding. The material suppliers’ approaches differ: Lanxess took over Bond Laminates, producers of continuous-fiber-reinforced semi-finished fabrics (type: Tepex). BASF has developed the necessary know-how in-house. They added the respective competences to their technical center, and presented their own new range of products and services, named Ultracom, at K 2013. This comprises semi-finished products with the res...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-10-12, Lightweight Construction with Thermoplastics Ready for Serial Production
...nceThe Audi A6, for example, has now been equipped with an infotainment module (Fig. 3) in the form of a hybrid component produced from a continuous fiber-reinforced polyamide composite overmolded with a polyamide 6. This series component in Tepex and Durethan from Lanxess weighs almost 50 % less than a comparable version in steel. Use is made of two organic sheets of type Tepex dynalite 102-RG600(2)/47 %, supplied by Lanxess subsidiary Bond-Laminates GmbH, Brilon, Germany. These are brought gen...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-10-12, Ready for Series Production
...ure thanks to a process innovation by Lanxess AG, Cologne, Germany. Its subsidiary, Bond-Laminates GmbH, Brilon, Germany, is now able to continuously manufacture composite semi-finished products for large-scale volume production under the brand name Tepex dynalite (Fig. 1). In these semi-finished products, the individual glass fiber layers are not just oriented, as before, in the production direction and perpendicularly to it (0° and 90°) but can also be arranged at almost any desired angle. Thi...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polyamide 6 and 66 (PA6 and PA66)
...d the Automotive Innovations Award 2016 for the most innovative supplier in the "chassis, body and exterior" category.Despite vigorous development activities by the OEMs, suppliers and raw materials manufacturers such as Lanxess (Tepex) and BASF (Ultracom), parts based on endless fiber-reinforced composites are slow in becoming established. One of the few serial applications in the automotive industry is the rear bumper beam of Honda’s new "Clarity Fuel Cell" car. It is made of Tepex, a fiber-re...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-03-27, Lightweight Design on the Move
...ighs only half as much as a comparable steel design. Another deciding factor was the cost-efficient production process, which is suitable for large-scale manufacture. In addition, the advanced multiaxial fiber layer structure in the insert made from Tepex dynalite from Lanxess and the component surface with its very regularly arranged continuous glass fibers also received special recognition. These give the pedal the attractive, high-tech appearance associated with motor sport.The production pro...