Innovative textile processes

To date, the Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP) process has mainly been used for the precise placement of fibers, especially high-performance fibers, that are oriented according to their load-bearing capacity.

Hightex has further developed this process into Tailored Fiber Placement high Volume TFP(hV). The new process generation enables processors to replace existing reinforcement systems made of woven or non-crimp fabrics with TFP(hV) preforms – even in large quantities. And with a lower specific weight and a significantly improved price-performance ratio.

Novel applications

The combination of cost-effective preforms with recyclable fiber materials is suitable for existing and new applications. Users, designers and processors of textile fiber reinforcements can develop sustainable products with natural fiber-reinforced preforms without having to change their processes or component designs.

The preforms manufactured using TFP(hV) not only offer the option of choosing the technical parameters as freely as possible, but also completely new approaches to visual design through textures and patterns. This opens up unique and completely new possibilities of component design for customers from the automotive sector, the sports and leisure industry and architecture, for example.