Fiberglass-reinforced nylon PA12 is co-developed by AGY, Orion Compounding
Implementation of AGY’s S2 Glass fiber enhances the material’s tensile and impact strength, elongation at break, and improves tensile and flexural modulus.
Source | AGY
AGY (Aiken, S.C., U.S.), in collaboration with custom-engineered thermoplastic compounds developer (Lugoff, S.C., U.S.), has resulted in the development of nylon polyamide 12 (PA12) reinforced with AGY’s S2 Glass fiber, imparting a combination of strength, toughness and processing versatility.
The S2 Glass-reinforced PA12 provides up to a 15% increase in tensile strength, 13%+ improvement in tensile and flexural modulus, a 23%+ increase in elongation at break, a 25%+ improvement in impact strength and the ability to produce transparent/translucent parts in PA12. The co-development addresses the growing demand for high-performance TPC across aerospace, automotive, electronics and medical device markets.
Ryan Divens, director of business development for Orion Compounding, notes that the material will enable customers to design parts with both high performance and distinctive visual properties.
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