Owens Corning, a leading global producer of glass fibre reinforcements and engineered materials for composite systems, has launched its innovative PulStrand 4100 roving at the recently held CAMX 2015 show in US.

The PulStrand 4100 roving delivers breakthrough processing advantages and performance benefits in pultrusion compared to existing competitive offerings. The global composites market for pultrusion continues to grow requiring higher performing solutions.

The PulStrand 4100 product, introduced in Europe in early 2015, offers superior processing qualities, strength, and fatigue resistance in a multi-compatible product for polyester, vinyl ester, epoxy, and polyurethane resin systems. This higher-productivity material has the potential to provide faster line speeds while reducing downtime, scrap, and labour, and enhances the modulus and durability of the pultruded profiles for a variety of high-performance markets.

Mikhail Vorobiev, global product manager at Owens Corning said, “Our global customers are seeing the potential of PulStrand 4100 to help improve their performance and productivity. We’re very pleased to be introducing this product to the North American market.”

The PulStrand 4100 product covers a wide tex range (600-9600) and can be customized to specific application requirements allowing for the production of profiles for the consumer, recreation, corrosion, electrical, transportation, and construction markets, according to a press release. (GK)