ZOLTEK’s™ Pultruded Profiles are pre-cured, thick-ply carbon fiber laminates for ideal structural reinforcement applications. Available in a variety of thicknesses and complex shapes, our pultrusion products deliver optimized properties with high fiber volumes, nearly zero void content, and locked-in filament alignment.
ZOLTEK PX35 carbon fiber tows are fed into our proprietary impregnation and curing process which creates smooth carbon fiber laminates resulting in efficient laydown when building thickness. The specific fiber alignment achieved with pultrusion delivers consistently better overall properties in laminates than any other composite manufacturing process. Depending on the end application, these pultruded profiles are typically produced with a thermoset epoxy or vinyl ester resin in a proprietary low-cost, high-throughput process.
Pultruded profiles are production-ready carbon composites for infrastructure applications, deep sea exploration, wind energy, and other applications benefiting from the unique properties of pultruded carbon fiber parts.
Applications: Wind Energy, Infrastructure, Offshore Drilling, Mining, Other Structural Reinforcement Applications
Product Feature | Test Method | PX35/Vinyl Ester | PX35/Vinyl Ester | PX35/Epoxy | PX35/Epoxy |
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Fiber Volume Fraction (Mean) | ASTM D3171 | 62% | 69% | 65% | 69% |
Flexural E Modulus (Mean) | ASTM D6272 | 151 GPa | 163 GPa | 135 GPa | 167 GPa |
Flexural Strain (Characteristic) | ASTM D6272 | 0.88% | 1.02% | 1.1% | 1.04% |
Interlaminar Shear Strength (Characteristic) | ISO 14130 | 62 MPa | 67 MPa | 69 MPa | 71 MPa |
Transverse Strength (Characteristic) | ASTM D790/ISO 527 | 72 MPa | 60 MPa | 62 MPa | 108 MPa |
Axial Tensile Modulus | ISO 527/DIN EN 2561 | 141 GPa | 161 GPa | 144 GPa | 164 GPa |
Axial Compressive Modulus | ASTM D6641/DIN EN 2850 | 133 GPa | 148 GPa | 135 GPa | 145 GPa |
Linear Tensile Strain to Failure (Characteristic) | ISO 527/DIN EN 2561 | 1.06% | TBD | 1.2% | 1.09% |
Linear Compression Strain to Failure (Characteristic) | ASTM D6641/DIN EN 2850 | 0.73% | 0.74% | 0.75% | 0.68% |
* Typical data based on 5mm thick pultruded profiles