Composites portfolio targets sustainability, ballistics

Avient Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S.) is highlighting its breadth of advanced composite materials and engineered fiber solutions that offer high strength, weight reductio, and corrosion resistance for products across a broad range of industries and markets. Ballistic-resistant panels are also making a debut at its booth. 

Broadening Avient’s portfolio of protective materials, Polystrand ThermoBallistic composite panels are E-glass-reinforced thermoplastic compression molded panels that are said to offer a cost-competitive alternative to ballistic-resistant materials made with other fibers or thermoset resins. ThermoBallistic panels provide structural, bullet-resistant reinforcement to meet UL 752 Level 3 ballistic rating for interior and exterior architectural surfaces and components at a light weight.

In addition, Avient is returning with its complete materials portfolio, which helps Avient customers meet sustainability goals in various ways:

• Thermoplastic composites:
  • Polystrand continuous fiber-reinforced unidirectional (UD) tapes and multi-axial laminates, including recycled content formulations
  • Hammerhead marine composite panels — structural solutions to replace wood and other materials in boatbuilding applications
  • Polystrand structural sandwich panels
• Thermoset composites:
  • Glasforms pultruded rods, tubes and custom profiles
  • Gordon Composites continuous glass and carbon fiber barstock, laminates and composite springs, including springs for high-temperature industrial applications
  • Gordon Glass archery bow limbs
  • GlasArmor ballistic-resistant panels
• Engineered fiber solutions:
  • Fiber-Line engineered high-performance fibers including coated, twisted and custom-wound glass, carbon, HMPE and LCP fibers
  • Fiber-Line pultruded rods and custom extrusion-coated rods and fiber
• Dyneema:
  • A UD material that offers optimal absorption and enhanced protection in a lightweight solution. Its strength and versatility make it ideal for a wide range of ballistic and armor solutions for personal and vehicle protection

Visit Avient at Booth F49 in Hall 5.