Avient demonstrates sustainable composite materials development
JEC World 2026: Avient's high-strength, lightweight thermoplastic and thermoset composites, including flame-retardant panels and ballistic-resistant materials, are designed for a range of industries and applications.
Source | Avient Corp.
Avient Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S.) is exhibiting a variety of its composite material technology offerings featuring high strength, weight reduction and durability characteristics and suited to a wide range of industries and applications.
The company’s innovation are shaped by real-world challenges. Developments such as flame-retardant thermoplastic composites (TPC) help the building and construction industry meet regulatory requirements while also supporting the growing need for affordable housing solutions. In infrastructure, Avient’s composites are paving the way for more resilient projects, helping address rising demand for power and electrification with materials built for long-term performance.
Materials featured in Avient’s exhibit include:
Thermoplastic composites (TPC)
- Hammerhead FR flame-retardant composite panels
- Polystrand continuous fiber tape laminates — fiber-reinforced unidirectional tapes and multi-axial laminates
- ThermoBallistic ballistic-resistant panels
- Hammerhead marine structural foam core sandwich panels
- Polystrand honeycomb core TPC sandwich panels
Thermoset composites
- GridCore composite utility poles
- Gordon Composites thermoset laminates and barstock — continuous glass and carbon fiber barstock, laminates and composite springs
- Glasforms pultruded rods, tubes and custom profiles
- GlasArmor ballistic-resistant panels
Engineered fiber solutions
- Fiber-Line engineered performance enhancing fiber processes, including coating, twisting and customized braiding aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE and LCP fibers
- Fiber-Line extrusion process — thermoset pultruded rods and custom extrusion-coated fibers
- Fiber-Line specialty engineered thermoplastic papes — fiber-reinforced thermoplastic unidirectional tapes.
Visit Avient at Booth 5F49, Hall 5. The Avient team is now scheduling media interviews.
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