For years Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials Composites has been developing and manufacturing glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites for the automotive industry and the building sector. Increasingly, companies from various other sectors discover the advantages of fiber reinforced thermoplastics.
Extremely unbreakable, impact resistant and at the same time efficient to manufacture: GMT was thus predestined for use in forming the blade of an ice hockey stick.
GMT was also used in forming a horse saddle. The decisive advantage here was high stability with defined flexibility.
For a boat paddle, however, GMTex® is the choice: high section modulus, high stiffness and abrasion resistance. For water rafting very high impact resistance is required because of high edge load caused by stones.
Advantages
Impact resistance
Fracture resistance
Efficient production (short cycle time possible with compression)
Fields of application for GMT
Replaces injection-molded plastic
Blade of the stick
Advantages
High section modulus and rigidity
Impact resistance
Abrasion resistance
Efficient production (short cycle time possible with compression)
Field of application for GMTex
Replaces wood and injection-molded plastic
Paddle blade
High impact resistance is demanded in whitewater owing to high stressing of blade edge
Advantages
Very high strength with defined flexibility (can be varied with different layering)
Metal-free
Long-term flexural strength
Fracture resistant
Rapid payback of workpiece costs (even in small numbers)
Field of application for GMT
Replaces wood and injection-molded plastic
Saddle tree
Symmetrical construction with long-term strength