Advanced Fiber Nonwovens | Industrial Specialties

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AFN® produces a wide array of nonwoven veils, carbon mats, and FRP mats using advanced fibers that meet our customers’ most demanding performance requirements. A variety of different binder systems can be used in conjunction with PAN carbon, nickel-coated carbon, PBO, para-aramid, polyester, and ECR-glass to develop a material that meets your specifications.

Basic Weight
Thickness
Average Tensile
(lb/in)
(kN/m)
Grade #
oz/yd2
g/m2
mils
mm
MD
CD
MD
CD
Fiber
8000110
0.50
17
4.6
0.11
4.5
4.5
0.8
0.8
Glass
8000195
3.10
105
25
0.64
13
13
2.3
2.3
Glass
8000116
6.24
211
57
1.4
24
24
4.2
4.2
Glass
8000047
3.00
102
33
0.84
18
18
3.2
3.2
Carbon
8000015
0.20
6.8
2.1
0.05
3.0
3.0
0.5
0.5
Carbon
8000056
0.25
8.5
3.3
0.08
3.0
3.0
0.5
0.5
Aramid

PBO Mats
AFN is pleased to offer a novel, high functioning nonwoven material composed of PBO. Commercialized as Zylon® by the Toyobo Company, Ltd. of Japan in 1999, these fibers lead to nonwovens that offer significant performance improvements over carbon-aramid materials. This superiority is demonstrated below:

  PBO p-aramid carbon polyester
Tensile Modulus (Gpa) 360.0 130.0 230.0 73.0
Tensile Strength (Gpa) 5.8 2.8 3.5 1.1
Density, g/ml 1.54 1.45 1.76 1.38
Residual % (500ºC, 1hr) 90.0 ~0.0 - ~0.0
Moisture Regain, % 0.6 4.5 - 0.4

PBO fabrics are excellent candidates for very high modulus composite materials and lightweight surface veils for covering composite surfaces. These fabrics are unusually resistant to impact, flame, abrasion, and high temperatures. They have very low moisture regain and good dimensional stability when used as reinforcement.

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