Composites portfolio targets thermoplastics, flame-retardant solutions

Source | Avient Corp.

Material solutions innovator Avient Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S.) presents its comprehensive portfolio of composite technologies and engineered fiber solutions.

Part of this highlight includes the company’s Hammerhead FR flame-retardant composite panels, a patent-pending thermoplastic composite sandwich structure featuring integrated flame retardance (FR) capable of eliminating the need for additional FR sheets or coatings. The panels can be used in modular construction walls, flooring and ceilings and can replace gypsum, drywall and framed assemblies with a consolidated, lightweight structural solution. They also meet ASTM E84 Class A standards for flame spread and smoke density, and passed NFPA 286 corner room burn testing.

In addition to Hammerhead FR panels, Avient highlights other material technologies that offer high strength, weight reduction and durability for a wide range of industries and markets, including:

Thermoplastic composites:
- Polystrand continuous fiber-reinforced unidirectional (UD) tapes and multi-axial laminates
- ThermoBallistic ballistic-resistant panels
- Hammerhead marine structural foam core sandwich panels
- Polystrand thermoplastic composite honeycomb core sandwich panels
Thermoset composites:
- Glasforms pultruded rods, tubes and custom profiles
- Gordon Composites continuous glass and carbon fiber barstock, laminates and composite springs, including composite springs
- Gordon Glass archery bow limbs
- GlasArmor ballistic-resistant panels
Engineered fiber solutions:
- Fiber-Line engineered high-performance fibers including coated, twisted and custom-braided aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE and LCP fibers
- Fiber-Line extrusion process, including its pultruded rods and custom extrusion-coated rods and fibers
- Fiber-Line specialty engineered, fiber-reinforced UD thermoplastic tapes
- Upcoming high-performance carbon fiber composite technologies.