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Enka® TecTape Hybrid Roving for the automated production of continuous fiber reinforced composites with thermoplastic matrix

Enka® TecTape Hybrid Roving combines twist free, aligned continuous glass fibers with thermoplastic multifilaments. Enka® TecTape Hybrid Roving provides the required flexibility and enables the manufacture of complex textile based reinforcements.

Excellent processing properties

The short distance between reinforcement fibers and thermoplastic fibers provides short cycle times during the conversion of the hybrid based textile into a composite. Fiber reinforced parts made from Enka® TecTape Hybrid Roving can be moulded—as with organo sheets—and further enhanced by tape welding or injection moulding.

Enka® TecTape Hybrid Roving

For the automate product of continuous fiber reinforced composites with thermoplastic matrix.

Enka® TecTape Parallel Hybrid Roving Technical Data

Type Matrix Material/ Colour Linear Density Mass1 Content Volume1 Content Tensile Strength2 Tensile Modulus2 Bending Strength3 Bending Modulus3
  Tex % % MPa GPa MPa GPa
Enka®TecTape
GF-PA 1800tex 6733		 PA 6/ Natural & Black 1855 67 46 790 38 660 30
Enka®TecTape

GF-PA 1800tex 6733

 PP/ Natural & Black 1900 67 41 660 33 490 30
Enka®TecTape

GF-PA 1800tex 6040

 PET4/natural 2040 60 44 n/a5 n/a5 n/a5 n/a5
Remark:
  1. Glass Fiber
  2. IOS 527-4
  3. IOS 178
  4. Various PET type available low meting temperature high glass transition temperature
  5. Mechanical data depending on PET type

Enka® TecTape Parallel Hybrid Roving Advantages

Textile Processing:

  • Twist free, no intermingling and flat
  • Constant width and thickness
  • Smooth surface, i.e. low friction Flexible for all kind of textile processes, e.g. weaving,
  • braiding, tailored fiber placement etc.
  • Specific local reinforcement of load path Zero waste production
  • For automated and economic processing

Consolidation:

  • Constant ratio of glass fibers to matrix fibers
  • Short melt flow distances
  • No shrinkage for straight glass fiber alignment
  • High melt flow polymers
  • High compactness
  • Consolidated parts are post-formable and over- mouldable

Applications:

Enka® TecTape Hybrid Roving for fiber reinforced composites in

  • Twist free, no intermingling and flat
  • Constant width and thickness
  • Smooth surface, i.e. low friction Flexible for all kind of textile processes, e.g. weaving,
  • braiding, tailored fiber placement etc.
  • Specific local reinforcement of load path Zero waste production
  • For automated and economic processing