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AVIENT
ADVANCED
COMPOSITES
OVERVIEW
LOWER
ENERGY
COSTS
Requires less
energy during
installation
and use
INCREASE
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE
Customizable
solutions for
specific
application
needs
REDUCE
PRODUCT
LIFECYCLE
COSTS
Lower
installation
time, as well as
warranty and
part replacement
expenses
EXTEND
PRODUCT
LIFETIME
Corrosion,
flame, fatigue
and UV
resistant for
improved
durability
DESIGN
STRONG,
LIGHTER
WEIGHT
COMPONENTS
Up to 75%
lighter than
steel and up
to 25% lighter
than aluminum
ADVANCED COMPOSITES
An exceptional alternative to traditional materials such
as wood, ceramic and metal, advanced composite
solutions enable designers to:
• Design lighter weight structural components for
increased lifetime performance and improved
fuel efficiency—higher strength-to-weight ratios
to exceed the structural performance of traditional
materials while significantly reducing weight—up
to 75% lighter than steel and up to 25% lighter
than aluminum
• Extend product lifetime to reduce part
replacement and decrease warranty expenses—
the corrosion, weather, flame and fatigue
resistance of composite solutions improve
component durability
• Reduce product lifecycle costs—the extended
product lifetime, along with the potential for
reduced installation time and cost due to the lighter
weight of composite solutions, significantly reduces
the associated cost over the lifetime of a part
• Lower energy costs—by leveraging a higher
strength-to-weight ratio, composite solutions
allow designers to engineer products that require
less energy or power during installation and use
• Increase competitive advantage—Avient
advanced composite solutions can be customized
to provide electrical insulation, thermal insulation,
radiopacity, low thermal expansion, flexural
memory and load damping, while delivering
desired performance and aesthetic specifications
TRANSPORTATION
Truck floors, liners and aerodynamic components,
rail car doors and panels, automotive structural
solutions, leaf springs, traffic safety markers
and delineators, air cargo unit load devices (ULDs)
The Avient advanced composites portfolio offers customized solutions
to serve a full range of markets and industries, including:
USES & APPLICATIONS
ENERGY
Wind turbine blade stiffening components,
sucker rods, oil & gas production solutions
BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION
Structural blast protection, garage doors, modular
construction, temporary shelters, architectural
columns, concrete and masonry reinforcements,
pipe reinforcement
HEALTHCARE
External orthopedic fixators, endoscopy wands,
prosthetics
MARINE
Panels for decking, bulkheads, cabinets, doors,
transoms, ceilings; reinforcements for stringers;
sail battens
CONSUMER & RECREATION
Archery bow limbs and risers, furniture springs, diving
board springs, golf flagpoles, snowsports equipment,
sporting stick shafts, paddle shafts, lightweight and
extendable mast structures
ELECTRICAL &
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Utility poles and cross-arms, high voltage transmission
& distribution insulator cores, surge arresters, bus bar
covers and electrical tool components
INDUSTRIAL
Pallet stiffeners, pipe reinforcement, conveyor springs,
dock shelters
PROCESSES &
CAPABILITIES
Avient’s reinforced composite technologies use carbon, glass and aramid fibers with custom formulated thermoset
or thermoplastic resins in continuous forming processes.
These methods include:
PULTRUSION
• Fibers are impregnated with liquid thermoset
resins, then pulled through a heated die to cure
the resin and form the product
• This continuous, automated manufacturing
process creates constant cross section profiles
of any pre-determined length with consistent,
uniform quality and exceptional mechanical
performance
• Applications include rods and profiles of various
lengths and complexities, such as utility poles,
insulator core rods and structural beams
CONTINUOUS FILAMENT WINDING
• Combines the principles of filament winding with
pultrusion to create constant or tapered cross-
sectional tubing in precision sizes
• The unique axial and biaxial fiber orientation
provides flexural and tensile strength, as well as
crush and burst resistance
• Applications include lightweight shelter frames
and sporting goods components
CONTINUOUS RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING (CRTM™)
• Engineered core materials are sandwiched
between structural composite laminate face sheets
• Continuous composite sandwich panels feature
high specific strength and stiffness-to-weight ratio
• Applications include ballistic resistant panels,
truck floors and rail car doors
CONTINUOUS FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS
• Fully recyclable tape, X-Ply™ (0°/90°), and other
multi-ply configurations with widths up to 10' wide
• Sandwich panels in unlimited lengths,
up to 6" thick and 10' wide
• High volume production capacity
• Applications include structural and aerodynamic
components in transportation, and reinforcement
of materials such as wood and metal
THERMOSET COMPOSITE LAMINATES & BARSTOCK
• Unidirectionally reinforced barstock, laminates
and hybrid composites engineered to maximize
deflection and fatigue resistance
• Customizable shapes and sizes
• Applications include archery bow limbs, flat
springs, prosthetics, sporting equipment
THERMOSET FINISHING OPERATIONS
• Customized finishing capabilities for barstock and
laminates including machining, water-jet cutting,
profiling/shaping, sanding, slitting, laminating,
molding and coatings
TESTING CAPABILITIES
• Mechanical – Flexural, tensile, compression, shear,
fatigue, impact resistance
• Physical – Specific gravity/density, Barcol
hardness, water absorption, void content,
resin/fiber content, dye penetrant, viscosity
• Thermomechanical – Coefficient of linear thermal
expansion, glass transition temperature, deflection
temperature, degree of cure, curing properties
• Electrical – High-voltage, low current dry arc
resistance of solid electrical insulation, dielectric
strength, water diffusion
ABOUT AVIENT
ADVANCED COMPOSITES
The Avient advanced composites portfolio
consists of Glasforms™, Gordon Composites™
and Polystrand™ branded materials.