LFT High Tensile Strength TPU Thermoplastic Urethane long glass fiber reinforced compounds

What is TPU Plastic?

Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU)
Thermoplastic Polyurethane is soft and elastic, with excellent tensile and tear strength. For this reason, it is often used to make parts that demand a rubber-like elasticity. TPU is a little bit expensive than other resins, but there is no substitute for many applications, such as protective wire and cable sheaths. Another advantage is that TPU improves the grip for products that need to be held securely in hand.

What Are the Advantages of Thermoplastic?

Thermoplastics are popular manufacturing materials.  Some of the reasons for this are listed below:

1)Ease of Processing: High production efficiency, can be used for complex product design

2)Low Cost: Thermoplastics — especially commodity thermoplastics like polypropylene — cost very little per kilogram.  The resulting products are thus very affordable, particularly when coupled with high-volume production technologies like injection molding.

3)Wide range of properties: Thermoplastics have a wide range of mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties.  Specific properties depend on the type of thermoplastic, processing technique, and the types of fillers and additives used.

4)High strength-to-weight ratio: Thermoplastics are lightweight.  As such, components can be designed to take advantage of this while keeping the loads within acceptable limits.

What is the usage of TPU Long Glass Fiber Reinforced Pellets?

Some of the TPU products manufactured are automotive instrument panels, caster wheels, sporting goods, power tools, drive belts, medical devices, footwear and etc.

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Product Details

About LFT Plastic

LFT long fiber reinforced thermoplastic engineering materials,compared to ordinary short fiber reinforced thermoplastic materials (fiber length is less than 1-2 mm), the LFT process produces thermoplastic engineering material's fibers in lengths of 5-25 mm. The long fibers are impregnated with the resin through a special mold system to obtain long strips that are fully impregnated with the resin ,and then cut to the length as required. The most used base resin is PP, by PA6, PA66, PPA,PA12,MXD6,PBT, PET,TPU,PPS, LCP,PEEK, etc. Conventional fibers include glass fiber, carbon fiber,special fibers include basalt fiber and quartz fiber, etc. Depending on the end use, the finished products can be used for injection molding,extrusion, molding, etc., or directly used for plastic instead of steel and thermoset products.

Q & A

Q: What is the Molding Temperature for Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU)?
A: depending on the TPU being molded.

Q. How to choose the reinforcement method and length of the material when using long fiber reinforced thermoplastic material?
A: The selection of materials depend on the requirements of the products.  It is necessary to assess how much the content is enhanced and how much length is more appropriate, which are depending on the performance requirements of the products.

Q. When a customer want to develop a new product, How to recommend customers suitable material and characteristics?
A: It is necessary to understand the customer's technical requirements ,use environment, test conditions for the new product, and recommend the model according to various kind of long-fiber resin substrate characteristics.