At the recently-held China Composites Expo, Owens Corning, a leading global producer of glass fiber reinforcements for composite systems and residential and commercial building materials, showcased a wide array of advanced innovative composite applications. Company exhibit focused on key end-use markets such as automotive, building and construction, energy and power, industrial and transportation.
Owens Corning, a leading global producer of glass fiber reinforcements for composite systems and residential and commercial building materials, showcased a wide array of advanced innovative composite applications at the China Composites Expo held 7-9 September at the World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center.
Owens Corning’s exhibit focused on key end-use markets such as automotive, building and construction, energy and power, industrial and transportation, which are providing significant opportunities for the fast-growing use of advanced composite solutions in the shift away from traditional materials to higher-performance solutions.
“Materials science, especially for composites, is one of today’s most powerful technology drivers,” says Jean-Marc Sinkora, vice president and managing director, Owens Corning Composite Solutions Business, Greater China. “This, in turn, is providing greater design freedom in the development of newer, better, higher-performance applications versus traditional materials. Owens Corning works closely with customers and designers to help them better understand the benefits of using composites and how they may replace older technologies for improved structural and mechanical properties and greater aesthetics.”
Owens Corning’s new high-strength XStrand® H glass was also on display at the company’s booth, along with pultruded rods and high-pressure cylinders for industrial applications, as well as pallets manufactured from long fiber thermoplastics (LFT) reinforced with Type 30™ rovings.
Owens Corning also highlighted both thermoplastic and thermoset applications for the transportation sector including cargo and passenger floor liners for aeronautic applications manufactured using FliteStrand® S roving. Automotive spoilers and front-end modules using Advantex® Type 30™ roving, as well as Silentex® noise control and muffler filling system, providing effective exhaust noise control, were also on show.