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.
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Avient Protective Materials ReportedDyneema
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 Ribbon Mills VerifiedAS9100
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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JPS Composite Materials VerifiedAS9100
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.
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Bally Ribbon Mills VerifiedAS9100
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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JPS Composite Materials VerifiedAS9100
Weaves UHMWPE alongside glass, quartz and aramid, which puts all four ballistic and structural fibre families under one AS9100D system.
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