The cover on the rear muffler of the BMW i8 is fabricated using a direct long fiber thermoplastic (DLFT) process from a polypropylene (PP) compression molding compound reinforced with long glass fiber ...

Dayton, Ohio — Success at Composite Technologies Co. LLC is realizing what the company does well and sticking to that. And for the company that goes by CTC Plastics, it's recycling polypropylene, ...

A German car manufacturer was looking for a solution to locally reinforce a battery box molded from a DLFT (direct long glass fiber thermoplastic) polypropylene (PP) compression molding compound.

Compression molding involves forming of complex shaped components by molding of a charge of fiber reinforced prepreg bulk molding compound (BMC) under heat and high pressures. Unidirectional fiber ...

The direct, or inline-compounding (ILC), process has been a major boon to thermoplastic composites during the past decade. Direct processing has driven significant growth in the use of such materials ...

Predominantly, if the metal part used in compression molding is tension or compression loaded, a ratio of metal part thickness to its extensional modulus, multiplied by the Bulk Molding Compound (BMC) ...