Plastic and fibre is a well known combination for making strong lightweight specialist enclosures, but can a little bit of fibre reinforcement usefully improve mass-produced injection moulded parts?

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Tests have shown that it performs similarly to standard film-based tapes. The innovative, strong paper backing material of the adhesive tape is coated with a solvent-free adhesive that ensures ...

The self-fusing silicone tape line now includes sinusoidal fiberglass-reinforced tape. Fiberglass strands incorporated into the tape better control the amount of stretch for consistent thickness and ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen, Germany, have developed a novel recycling process to recover the carbon-fiber reinforcement used in composite materials ...

This graph shows predicted versus measured rheology and shear rates for generic homopolymer polypropylene at different temperatures. Photo Credit for all images: University of Tennessee-Knoxville A ...

Sabic introduces UDMAX GPE 46-70 tape, the last addition to its expanding portfolio of unidirectional fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite tape products. Commercially available worldwide, the new ...