Hanwha Azdel specializes in the manufacture of Thermoplastic Composite materials. In bringing new products to market, we go through a rigorous New Product Development (NPD) commercialization process to ensure that new products meet exacting customer requirements while being developed within expeditious lead-times.

While in development, the product goes through numerous stages as it is promoted towards becoming a fully commercial product. It starts as an experimental product, goes to a developmental product as it is scaled-up on the production line, becomes semi-commercialized as it meets volume and consistency goals, and finally becomes a standard product once all quality and performance criteria have been met. Through each stage of the NPD process, successively tighter quality targets are met as the product and process optimization takes place.

Light-Weight Reinforced Thermoplastic (LWRT)

A low pressure, thermoformable composite of plastic resin and long chopped fiber combined with outer layers as needed for the application (i.e.; adhesive film, barrier film, tough PP film, non-woven, reinforcing, or just the bare surface.)

• A sheet product that is primarily thermoformed into shape.
• Typically used in less demanding structural applications where a high stiffness-to-weight ratio is required.
• Typical applications include vehicle interior substrates (headliners, parcel shelves, etc.)
• Available in a variety of areal weights from 600gsm (Grams per Square Meter) to 2000gsm.

There are several products that fall within the LWRT family.

• SuperLite^®
• SuperLite^® XLT
• VolcaLite^®
• Aero-Lite