Homepage // News Center // Carbon Fiber Underbody Braces Make Corvette Driving Experience Even More Exhilarating In 2016, Avient - which, at the time, was operating as PolyOne - announced development of a lightweight, carbon fiber-reinforced underbody brace, which is offered as a performance upgrade for the C7 generation of General Motors’ popular Chevrolet Corvette sports car.  The Glasforms business unit formulated a carbon-fiber-reinforced composite material for the C7 Corvette Z06 and non-Z06 underbody braces.

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Fiber reinforcements include long glass fiber, long carbon fiber and long hybrid (glass + carbon) fiber.   Avient Long Fiber Technology Avient long fiber technologies application development center bulletin highlighting services including design support, material validation, simulation support, and in-house prototyping

Long carbon and glass fiber reinforced thermoplastics are structural injection molding composites with metal replacement performance. We manufacture specialty long fiber composite pellets using a proprietary pultrusion process that melt impregnates continuous carbon, glass or other specialty fibers with thermoplastic polymer matrices ranging from polypropylene (PP) to PEEK to achieve high performance.  Long Carbon Fiber Reinforcement

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How are carbon fiber and fiberglass composites made? If you’ve heard terms like “pultruded carbon fiber,” this simply means that a carbon fiber composite has been made through the process of pultrusion.  Organo sheets are another kind of laminate and can be made from carbon, glass, or aramid fiber fabrics. 

How are carbon fiber and fiberglass composites made? If you’ve heard terms like “pultruded carbon fiber,” this simply means that a carbon fiber composite has been made through the process of pultrusion.  Organo sheets are another kind of laminate and can be made from carbon, glass, or aramid fiber fabrics. 

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