Evante to Launch Continuous Glass Fiber Reinforced UD Tape to Enhance Production Scalability

Evante's new PolyChain™ tape offers wide-width glass fiber reinforced unidirectional composites, enhancing manufacturing efficiency and production scalability.

It will offer various resins, including polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG), and amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (aPET). The customizable tapes manufactured in Englewood, Colorado, will drive innovation opportunities for thermoplastic composites in existing and emerging markets.

Composite utility poles: a lightweight and flexible alternative to traditional utility poles

Evant will also showcase its new GridCore™ composite utility poles, designed to enhance grid resilience as alternatives to traditional wood, steel, or concrete poles. Compared to poles made from these conventional materials, GridCore fiberglass-reinforced thermoset poles are lighter in weight and easier to install.

Compared to wooden poles, they are also more durable, require less maintenance, and are insect-resistant. These advantages can provide lower total system and lifecycle costs compared to other materials. The addition of GridCore poles expands Pulivar's market-leading pultruded composite product portfolio for the transmission and distribution market. The Glasforms™ pultrusion machines used for insulators, arresters, crossarms, and GridCore poles are manufactured in Birmingham, Alabama.

The exhibition will also showcase the following composite material technologies:

Thermoplastic composites:

Polystrand™ Continuous Fiber Tapes and Laminates: Fiber-Reinforced Unidirectional Tapes and Multiaxial Laminates

Hammerhead™ Flame Retardant Composite Panels and Hammerhead™ Thermoplastic Composite Panels

ThermoBallistic™ Bulletproof Composite Panel

Thermosetting composite materials:

Gordon Composites™ thermoset laminates and rods: continuous glass and carbon fiber rods, laminates, and composite springs for high-temperature industrial applications

Gordon Glass™ Archery Limbs

Glasforms™ Pultruded Rods, Tubes, and Custom Profiles

GlasArmor™ Bulletproof Panel

Engineering Fiber Solutions:

FiberLine™ Engineering Performance Enhancement Fiber Technology: including coating, twisting, and custom weaving of aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE, and LCP fibers.

FiberLine™ Extrusion Process: Thermoset Pultrusion Rods and Custom Extruded Coating Fibers

Avient is committed to helping its customers achieve their sustainability goals through its advanced portfolio of composite materials. Composites are inherently lightweight alternatives to metals and other materials, enabling a variety of sustainability initiatives in end-use products, such as material reduction and improved fuel efficiency.

Event will participate in CAMX, the largest and most comprehensive composites and advanced materials expo in North America, at booth J23, held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, from September 9 to 11, 2025.