A supplier of plastic compounds now has an invaluable competitive edge in one of its primary markets, thanks to an in-depth research and color-finding project recently completed in partnership with Avient ColorWorks™.

A supplier of plastic compounds now has an invaluable competitive edge in one of its primary markets, thanks to an in-depth research and color-finding project recently completed in partnership with Avient ColorWorks™.

Although industry leaders retooled to produce more masks, manufacturers and suppliers still struggled to bridge the gap between demand and supply.

Although industry leaders retooled to produce more masks, manufacturers and suppliers still struggled to bridge the gap between demand and supply.

The design team reached out to long-term supplier Avient GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers to help develop a customized solution.

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Digimat for long fibre reinforced materials Advanced simulation captures part performance for fibre reinforced thermoplastics Comparing the results of isotropic material data to anisotropic material data Case study https://hexagon.com/ Figure 2: Digimat material model workflow when coupled with an FEA solver Manufacturing Intelligence hexagonmi.com2 Solution Avient leveraged Digimat to reverse-engineer material data based on the microstructure, tensile test data, and micro-mechanical modelling. Avient and Hexagon used Digimat to develop anisotropic long fibre material data for a molded connector rod. https://www.hexagonmi.com https://hexagon.com https://twitter.com/HexagonAB https://hexagon.com/

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