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Kordsa expands its competencies in thermoplastic prepregs

Thermoplastic prepregs (c) 2020 Kordsa
Kordsa, the global player of tire, construction reinforcement and composites technologies market, invests in automotive and industrial applications and recently launched its woven based thermoplastic prepreg products as sheets with maximum dimensions of 1.2m x 1.2m.

`Prepreg’ is a reinforcing tape or a reinforcing fabric pre-impregnated with a resin system. Kordsa serves to the composite industry manufacturing epoxy, hybrid, cyanate ester, polyvinyl butyral (PVB), phenolic and modified phenolic prepregs with different reinforcement matrices such as carbon, glass, aramid and hybrid. Since 2015, the Company has been working on feasible thermoplastic prepreg production technology and launched its woven based polypropylene and polyamide thermoplastic prepreg products as sheets with maximum dimensions of 1.2m x 1.2m. The resin systems were specially formulated by Kordsa.


The article in the Reinforcer Magazine by the Project Leader Elçin Çakal Saraç, PhD, describes Kordsa focuses on automotive and industrial applications to increase fuel efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and production cycle time in collaboration with project partners.

For more details on Kordsa’s thermoplastic prepregs please see:

https://www.kordsa.com/tr/images/pdf/reinforce_dergi_no12_2020.pdf


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