Overview of services
Range of services offered by the Thermoplastic Semi-Finished Fiber Composites group
- application specific material development for fiber-reinforced semi-finished products and molded parts in short, long and continuous fiber reinforcement
- use of various types of fibers (organic and non-organic fibers as well as natural fibers)
- process development and optimization in the continuous thermoplastic processing procedure
- UD tape development with continuous and long fibers
- extrusion of semi-finished products like hollow chamber profiles
- compounding of fiber-reinforced thermoplastics
- scale-up of processing procedures
- optimization of compounding processes on twin screw extruders such as considering screw profiles and addition of fibers
- development and production of prototypical components for a market launch
- determination and evaluation of the influence of the material systems and the technological conditions on the characteristics of the material in thermoplastic composites (TPC)
- destructive and non-destructive test procedures
Range of services offered by the High Performance Thermoplastics group
- sampling of prototypes and series tools in the injection molding process
- direct processing of long-fiber thermoplastics (D-LFT) and thermoplastic blends through the process of Injection Molding Compounding (IMC)
- production of thermoplastic lightweight structures in hybrid injection molding processes through forming and reshaping of continuous reinforced depositors
- equal strain design of fiber composite components
- computer supported structural design and process simulation
- determination of the influences of process parameters on the resulting properties material in components
- development of processing techniques and optimization of the injection molding process and hybrid technology
- destructive and non-destructive test procedures