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UHMWPE Composite · Product form

UHMWPE Composite Dry Fabric

I am infusing rather than using prepreg. Who weaves this fabric in my style and areal weight?

What it is

Woven or non-crimp reinforcement supplied without resin, to be infused later. Sold by weave style, areal weight and fiber type.

Typical dimensions
Commonly 3 to 24 oz per square yard; widths to roughly 60 inches.
Also known as
woven fabric, cloth, non-crimp fabric, NCF, broadgoods, reinforcement fabric

Suppliers

Grouped by what they actually are. A mill and a distributor answer different needs.

Mills and producers 3

Companies that manufacture this form. Mill direct means longer lead times and mill minimums, with full melt traceability.

  • Greenville, NC · Mill Converter
    Dyneema

    UD composite fabric and film. Recorded as fabric because the atlas has no film form; the film product exists and is not separately modeled.

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  • Bally, PA · Converter
    AS9100

    Spectra and Dyneema are named among the yarns woven. Dry woven fabric, tape and webbing as supplied product, before any resin. Bally's output is narrow fabric and engineered structures rather than wide broadgoods.

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  • Anderson, SC · Converter
    AS9100

    Woven UHMWPE fabric in DSM Dyneema and Honeywell Spectra.

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Production methods

The same form, purchased as tolling on your own material.

Weaving 2

Converting continuous tow into woven or non-crimp broadgoods on a loom, to a specified weave style and areal weight.

  • Bally, PA · Converter
    AS9100

    Spectra and Dyneema are named by trade name among the yarns woven. Woven from the stated yarn list on 2D and 3D looms. Bally weaves engineered webbing, tapes and specialty fabrics rather than broadgoods for general layup, so confirm width and construction against the print.

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  • Anderson, SC · Converter
    AS9100

    Weaves UHMWPE alongside glass, quartz and aramid, which puts all four ballistic and structural fibre families under one AS9100D system.

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