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Manufacturers: Pultrusions
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Pultruded composites can be very cost effective if you need moderate to large quantities of straight stock in various profiles. Manufacturers on this page produce stock and custom profile composite pultrusions.

Arisawa
The page says Arisawa has pultrusion capabilities, but it is extremely vague on the specifics. The only contact is the Webmaster via e-mail. Located in Japan.

ARMTEX
Fiberglass, graphite, or aramid pultrusions. Solid or hollow cross sections. Unidirectional, woven, or braided. Descriptions of end products only. Contact info on home page.

Complastik
Developers of Thermaplastik composites. Site reads like a marketing or business plan; it's not clear if the materials are actually available yet. Pultrusions are mentioned as one form.

Creative Pultrusions
Fiberglass pultrusions in standard and custom shapes, plus pultruded and molded grating. Also provides a full range of services from design to engineering to distribution.

Fiber Concepts Inc. (FCI)
Manufactures composite structures using a variety of processes, including pultrusion. Site graphics are broken, but the text is still there, and the contact link works.

Fiberflex
Fiberflex specializes inrod systems for the oil industry, but they also have a wide range of stock shapes for various industries. Custom designs and assembly services are also available.

Fiberline
European pultruder. 6000 standard profiles. Standard shapes and dimensions shown. Order brochures, browse applications and bridge case studies.

Fibreforce
Custom and stock sections in solid, hollow, and open profiles. Glass, graphite, and aramid in a variety of thermoset matrices. Stock profiles list online. Nice drawings of equipment.

Fibrolux
Custom and stock profiles, including graphite and phenolics. Pultruded gratings, stair- and handrail-systems, and threads and nuts. Extensive list of stock profiles online.

Glasforms
Over 100 stock profiles in a variety of resins and fiber systems, plus custom pultrusions. Extensive testing facilities. Site has some good descriptions of end products.

GRP Plastics Pty
Custom manufactuer of composite structures; pultrusion is one of their processes. Stock and custom shapes, plus gratings, are available, but no online catalog or listing.

Haysite Reinforced Plastics
Eight stock profiles in a variety of dimensions and material grades, targeted at industrial and infrastructure applications. Tables of typical properties for each grade.

OMEGA Pultrusions
High volume, complex shaped fiberglass pultrusions for the transportation, electrical, construction, and consumer markets. Material properties and pictorial process description.

Polygon Company
Polygon manufactures pultrusions used in a wide array of products, from industrial applications to consumer goods. Many different fibers and resin systems can be used.

Pultech Pultrusions
Standard and custom profiles in fiberglass. General description of products, but no detailed listing or catalog.

Pultron Composites
New Zealand manufacturer of pultrusion machinery, dies, and structural profiles. The company also maintains an R&D department. Nice looking Web site, but not a lot of specifics.

Pultrusion Dynamics
Designs and manufactures custom pultrusion dies using proprietary analysis software. Also provides product development and prototyping services.

Stesalit
Pultruded composites in a variety of profiles. General descriptions, but no detailed specs or catalog. Technical data simply gives composite properties. Located in Germany.

Strongwell
Manufacturer of a wide variety of fiberglass pultrusions, molded fiberglass grating, and precast polymer concrete. Basic product info online.

TEEL Plastics
Custom rods, tubing, and profiles. Primarily fiberglass. Offers services such as simple machining and light assembly.

Tiqsons Technologies
Canadian consulting firm which assists in various types of manufacturing. Can provide assistance in the purchase of pultrusions.

TPM2
Thermoplastic pultrusions with carbon and glass fibers. Curved pieces (not possible with thermosets). Site includes some sample properties and contact information.

TUFNOL
TUFNOL provides a variety of cured laminates in several forms. Pultrusions are available in stock or custom profiles. The manufacturing page has more info on TUFNOL products.

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