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Plastics Technology, 2010-03-25, Seven-Layer R&D Line Spurs Blown Film Innovation
...talled last year at Dow Chemical Co."s Film Application Development Center (FADC) in Freeport, Tex. The line was part of Dow"s $5.2 million expansion of its FADC.

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Economical in Long Series
...ssumed to be ellipses with different eccentricities Fig. 4. Computed value of the impregnation time for a centrifuged fibre reinforced plastic pipe as a function of the rotation rate. Reinforcement material: twisted glass fibre yarn and roving (tex number 408 g/km, filament diameter 11 μm), impregnation medium: PA 6 melt Fig. 5. Carbon and glass fibre reinforced pipes with PA 6 matrix manufactured using the TEP centrifugation process Fig. 6. Comparison of the surface profiles of a glass ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Fibre Composite Parts: Automated Preform-RTM Production
Fibre Composite Parts: Automated Preform-RTM Production Experience acquired in automated textile engineering and plastics technology, coupled with software developments that can be implemented in different branches of industry, make it possible to optimize automated processes and achieve considerable savings potential. Thanks to the many years’ experience acquired in the mass production of textile clothing and the high market volume involved, these production processes are now run in an exte...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Fibre Reinforced Plastics: Tailor-made Reinforcing Textiles
Fibre Reinforced Plastics: Tailor-made Reinforcing Textiles Textile semi-finished products for fibre composites can be made up by employing conventional sewing techniques. Special mechanical properties can be achieved in sewn and resin-impregnated parts in this way. Kai Klopp, Thomas Gries Due to their complex nature, fibre reinforced plastics (FRP) have a very high potential for solving specific strength problems. Continuous fibre reinforced plastics are employed in aeronautics and aerosp...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Perspectives at the Start of a New Millennium
...or PMMA, is viewed as a standard technology; however, it is thought that the selenium cells are still in need of improvement. There is also mention of "responsive" construction materials. These are materials that, in a manner similar to Gore-Tex, influence the humidity content of rooms and thus favourably affect the well-being of the inhabitants. The proposal to separate potable water from water for domestic use will lead to the installation of twin pipelines - i. e., one more mains wate...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-27, Film Extrusion: More and More Layers
...al of experience with configuring the image processing systems, a prerequisite that is not always fulfilled satisfactorily by many film producers. Accordingly, current developments such as the WebControl-Tex System from Pixargus GmbH, Aachen/Germany, assist the user with definition of these rules by means of an easy-teach function. The system learns defect classes from examples; it then formulates the necessary classification rules itself. This simplifies set-up of the system considerably (Fig.1...

Kunststoffe international, 2009-10-14, For the Third Industrial Revolution
...SD300 from Solido Ltd., Yehud, Israel, which works with polyvinylchloride (PVC) films. In technical terms, this is largely identical to the XD-700 that appeared in the years that followed (manufacturer: Graph-Tex, Inc of Cortland, New York, USA) and the Invision LD-3 (manufacturer: 3D-Systems). The current variant is the SD300 Pro (manufacturer: Solido). Fabbing As of about 2006, lower-priced systems, many of which were even available in kit form, were presented to the wider public, which noneth...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-08-19, Environmental Awareness as a Business Plan
...mpounds supplier ended the crisis year of 2009 with sales of about EUR 4.44 billion broken down as follows: about EUR 1.95 billion in Europe, just under EUR 1.34 billion in America and the rest in Asia, Africa and Australia. In terms of markets, the textile, industrial goods, construction and packaging segments are seen as having the strongest growth (Fig. 1). For the first quarter of 2010, the company reported sales of EUR 1.22 billion, 13 % higher than in the previous year. The strongest growt...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-04-25, Multiaxial Textile Grids
...her requirements on the load bearing strength of such thermoplastic parts, besides conventional short-fibers, there is a focus on the application of longfiber and continuous fiber reinforcement. Along with glass mat reinforced thermoplastics, closed textile products or preconsolidated organic sheet, a new, highly promising reinforcement alternative is offered by thermoplastic endless fiber-reinforced multiaxial grids (“Temag”). This flexible textile reinforcement can selectively improve both loc...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-02-24, Textile Structures with Active Ingredients
Textile structures have been used with great success in medical technology for decades. Together with the development of new polymer materials and the advances in the field of textile production methods, textile structures also offer great potential for the future for the development of innovative treatment methods. The advantages of textile structures derive i. a. from the possibility of producing two and three-dimensional structures, their good drapability, the possibilities of setting the mec...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-11-26, Lighter in the Air, in the Wind and on the Road
...ine in the countryside is 80 wt.-% steel. For the rotor blades, though, lightweight construction throughout is required. The blades employed in wind turbines are made predominantly by an infusion process. This consists in placing the dry reinforcing textiles in an open mold, which serves as the negative of a blade half-shell, covering it with a film structure, and infiltrating it with the matrix system, under vacuum, at 40 to 50°C. The temperature is usually increased again for the curing pr...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-05-16, Hidden in Plain View
...PUs are once again mainly encountered as films. An example is clothing where water vapor permeability plays an important role. A jacket should protect against wind and rain, but moisture due to perspiration should be able escape. Gore-Tex developed a process where a film made from fluorinated polyethylene (Teflon) is stretched in such a way that it becomes porous. It is only due to its low thickness that the membrane is flexible and yet not elastic. There is however an area where alongside water...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-09-18, Battery Mount in a Hybrid Design
In the context of a research project, a battery mount was transferred into a novel thermoplastic composite-hybrid-design with load introduction elements made of aluminum. Compared to the steel weld construction that is used so far, the mass of the assembly is reduced by about 30 %. Besides, the installation of battery is made easier by the novel design and the part has a high remaining load bearing capacity after failure. The diminishing nature of fossil energy resources has intensified researc...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-02-23, From a Different Angle
In the manufacturing of RTM structural components, semi-finished textiles can be locally reinforced at different angles using a special weaving procedure. This allows the mechanical properties to be improved in highly stressed areas. The requirement profile of textile-reinforced structural components is increasingly complex, in terms of fiber orientation according to the load transmission, tailored joining techniques and functional design. There is concurrent a growing demand for the cost-effici...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-05-22, Sustainability Depending on the Details
...le with conventional fillers and between 15 and 30 Pa.s. Furthermore, the resin paste had to impregnate the reinforcement fibers with a chopping length of one inch (in the present case glass fibers from Owen Corning, grade: 204, 2,400 tex) and enable the fiber transport while processing. During the press-technical processing, no separation of fibers and resin paste, and further, no damage on the bio-based fillers may occur. Production and Processing of Resin Paste in Laboratory ScaleFigure 2 sho...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-02-21, Monomers Coursing through the Veins
...fficient mechanical strength. That is why they cannot be used in areas of application such as glass- and carbon-fiber-reinforced polymers (GRP, CFRP). The Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF and the Institute of Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen (ITA) have studied the scope for lowering the absorption of moisture by natural fibers (Fig. 1). This is the only way to develop new bio-based composite materials that serve as structural components for various appli...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-09-19, Induction Heating of CF-Reinforced Polymers
...oals are on the one hand to increase the joining speed and on the other hand to achieve a bonding strength that corresponds to the interlaminar shear strength. In regard to the increase in joining speed the influence of the laminate parameters of textile-reinforced laminates was comprehensively investigated for the first time. Based on these results guidelines for an improved laminate structure will be derived to displace the maximum temperature in thickness direction of the laminate without the...

Kunststoffe international, 2020-02-12, Lightweight Components from the Roll
...s. 80 Kilometers of Fibers per Day About 193 kg of glass fiber rovings are processed to manufacture around 20,000 parts with 30 % glass fiber content per day. Taking into account the fineness of the roving (tex value), this corresponds to about 80 km of glass fibers per day at a cutting length of about 11 mm. “We are convinced of the great potential offered by the FDC process, not only using glass fibers, but also natural or carbon fibers”, says Nils Braselmann. “In addition, Arburg’s extensive...