Even more cost effective and flexible – the LFT-D (Long Fiber Thermoplastic Direct-molding) process
Further reduce your costs within the LFT process by manufacturing your semi-finished product directly. In addition to glass, synthetic and natural fibers and plastics, you can also use recycled materials. With Dieffenbacher LFT-D technology you can adapt your material recipes more flexibly to component requirements. Make yourself more autonomous with a viable alternative to steel and aluminum for structural and semi-structural components in automotive construction (e.g., instrument panel carriers, underbody components, spare wheel recesses). Our hydraulic high-precision press shapes your plastic compound into a finished component. Complex filling layouts or loading two presses can further increase your process efficiency. Let us supply you with a turnkey production cell – with superordinate line control and integrated quality assurance. Take the next step toward more economic efficiency.
Customer benefits
Better economic efficiency and material flexibility through direct production of the semi-finished product
Better recyclability, as granulates can either be extracted from the company’s own production process or purchased from other sources and brought in
Special control enables recipe changes during operation
Stronger and qualitatively more-consistent components, thanks to longer fibers and more homogeneous fiber distribution
Better strength properties and higher energy absorption capacity of the components, as recipes can be adjusted to suit specific products
Improved productivity via shorter cycle times
Long Fiber Thermoplastic Direct-molding
Long Fiber Thermoplast Directline at Polytec Composites Rosendaal, Netherlands
Less weight due to local reinforcement – Advanced LFT-D
Adapt to increased stiffness or toughness requirements with greater flexibility – for example, by placing additional local reinforcing materials in the component. A parallel tape laying process with unidirectional fiber tapes embedded in a matrix of thermoplastics allows you to better combine the advantages of both materials and those of LFT-D technology. The result is plastic components that exhibit better impact behavior and have other advantages.
Fully automated concept for better series production
Better strength properties and higher absorption capacity
Less weight due to local reinforcement for structural and semi-structural applications
