When designing parts that require extra strength and stiffness, long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFRT) may be the answer to your design challenges.

In engineering applications, the stiffness-to-weight ratio, or specific modulus, is one of the most important material properties a designer considers.  This is especially true for structural or load-bearing applications.  By incorporating reinforcement fibers that are longer than conventionally used, gains of more than double the flexural modulus and up to quadruple the impact strength may be achieved.  Such products, commonly referred to as long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFRT), may be produced from many types of semicrystalline or amorphous thermoplastics reinforced with a variety of different fibers – glass, stainless steel, carbon or aramid.  LFRTs meet a wide range of end-user requirements and are excellent candidates for metal replacement where they provide the required structural integrity with significant weight reduction, corrosion resistance and the potential to lower manufacturing costs.