Plate polyamide GMT

aeronautical

These glass-mat reinforced PA and PP panels were developed as lightweight substitutes for aluminum, steel, and plywood. GMT materials consist of long fibers and/or endless glass fiber mats manufactured in a proprietary process and impregnated with the polymers in a second process step. The key to GMT's success lies in this long-fiber technology: Where unreinforced and short-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics become brittle at low temperatures and may shatter upon impact, GMT exhibits extremely high energy absorption before fracture. Exhibiting outstanding impact resistance and benign crash behavior, GMT is frequently used in the automotive industry where it is pressed on an industrial scale into complex 3D semi-structural components. Because of its low relative density, excellent hardness and rigidity even at low temperatures, resistance to moisture and chemicals, durability, and ease of recycling, GMT is widely favored as an alternative to many industrial materials. GMT OPTIONS Random or endless glass fiber Mineral filled Colors UV-resistance