Avient to launch continuous fiberglass-reinforced UD tape for increased production scalability
Last update on Aug 28, 2025
Avient Corporation will highlight its portfolio of advanced composite materials and engineered fiber solutions at the upcoming Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX) from September 9–11. This includes the launch of its new Polystrand™ 50-inch-wide Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Unidirectional Tape and GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles.
Available in a variety of resins including PP, PE and PETG
Avient’s new Polystrand™ tape offers a wide-format, fiberglass-reinforced unidirectional composite material to enable enhanced manufacturing efficiency and increased production scalability.
It will be available in a variety of resins, including polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG), and amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (aPET). The customizable tapes, manufactured in Englewood, CO, will advance innovative opportunities for thermoplastic composites in existing and developing markets.
Composite utility poles: a lightweight and resilient alternative to traditional poles
Avient will also showcase its new GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles, engineered to enhance electrical grid resilience as an alternative to traditional wood, steel, or concrete poles. Compared to poles made from these traditional materials, GridCore fiberglass-reinforced thermoset poles are lighter weight, enabling ease of installation.
They are also more durable compared to wood poles, requiring less maintenance and offering pest resistance. These advantages can provide a lower total system and lifecycle cost compared to other materials. The addition of GridCore poles expands Avient’s market-leading portfolio of pultruded composite materials for the electrical transmission and distribution market. Its Glasforms™ pultrusions for insulators, arresters, cross arms, and GridCore utility poles are manufactured in Birmingham, AL.
Other highlights
The Avient exhibit will also feature the following composite technologies:
Thermoplastic composites:
Polystrand™ Continuous Fiber Tapes & Laminates: fiber reinforced unidirectional tapes and multi-axial laminates
Hammerhead™ FR Flame Retardant Composite Panels and Hammerhead™ Thermoplastic Composite Panels
ThermoBallistic™ Ballistic Resistant Composite Panels
Thermoset composites:
Gordon Composites™ Thermoset Laminates & Barstock: continuous glass and carbon fiber bar stock, laminates, and composite springs for high-temperature industrial applications
Gordon Glass™ Archery Bow Limbs
Glasforms™ Pultruded Rods, Tubes, and Custom Profiles
GlasArmor™ Ballistic Resistant Panels
Engineered fiber solutions:
Fiber-Line™ Engineered Performance Enhancing Fiber Processes: including Coating, Twisting, and customized Braiding of aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE, and LCP fibers
Fiber-Line™ Extrusion Process: thermoset pultruded rods and custom extrusion-coated fiber
Avient is committed to helping customers meet sustainability goals through its advanced composites portfolio. Composites are inherently lightweight alternatives to metal and other materials, enabling sustainability initiatives such as material reduction and fuel economy improvements in many end products.
Avient is exhibiting at the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo – CAMX, the largest, most comprehensive composites and advanced materials event in North America, September 9–11, 2025, in Booth J23 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.