Avient Showcases Advanced Composite Materials at CAMX 2021

Avient Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S.), a provider of specialized and
sustainable material solutions and services, features its wide-ranging  thermoplastic and thermoset composite materials portfolio at CAMX.

According to the company, its advanced composites provide high strength and lightweight performance for products within the transportation, consumer, telecommunications, building and construction, infrastructure and industrial markets. The CAMX exhibit highlights processing and application examples featuring the following materials:

• Thermoplastic composites
  • Polystrand continuous fiber-reinforced unidirectional (UD) tapes and multi-axial laminates
  • Hammerhead marine composite panels
  • Polystrand structural sandwich panels
• Thermoset composites:
  • Glasforms pultruded rods, tubes and custom shapes, and continuous filament-wound tubes
  • Gordon Composites continuous glass and carbon fiber barstock, laminates and composite springs, including springs for high-temperature industrial applications
  • Gordon Glass archery bow limbs
• Long fiber thermoplastic materials:
  • PlastiComp Complēt long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite formulations
• Engineered fiber solutions:
  • Fiber-Line high-performance synthetic fibers including carbon fiber, fiberglass and Kevlar, enhanced with various customized performance-adding processes

In addition to the exhibit, Avient experts are presenting on three topics as part of the CAMX conference program, including both in-person sessions and on-demand presentations via the CAMX+ platform. Presentations include:

• Application Development and Processing of Compression Molded Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics
• Case Study: Optimizing Part Design with Thermoplastic Composite Injection Overmolding
• Improved Bonding of Composites with No Accelerated Aging.