Customised carbon reinforcement for carbon concrete with tailored fiber placement
✓ Are you a manufacturer of precast concrete elements?
✓ Are you looking for a corrosion-free alternative to steel?
✓ Do you want to reduce weight without compromising on load-bearing capacity?
✓ Do you need a customised reinforcement solution that fits your component geometry perfectly?
With TFP Technology, you get customised carbon reinforcement for modern carbon concrete components.
Fiber preforms for carbon concrete and carbon reinforcement
As a developer or manufacturer of precast concrete elements, you are aware of the limitations of traditional steel reinforcement. Its weight, susceptibility to corrosion, and limited formability make it difficult to implement modern, sustainable construction projects.
TFP Technology offers a groundbreaking alternative: customised, non-metallic carbon fiber reinforcements that make your components lighter, more durable and more efficient.
Using our unique Tailored Fiber Placement technology (TFP), we produce carbon preforms as reinforcement structures that serve as corrosion-free alternatives to steel and can be precisely adapted to any component geometry.
Take advantage of this technological edge! Let us show you how custom-made fiber preforms can improve the efficiency, lightness, and future-proofing of your components.
Why non-metallic carbon reinforcement is revolutionising the construction industry
Steel has been the standard material for reinforcing concrete for decades. However, its main disadvantage is well known: steel rusts. To prevent corrosion, a thick concrete cover is required, which increases the overall weight and material consumption. In the long term, this corrosion leads to complex and costly repair work.
Carbon concrete is a compelling solution. Since carbon fibers are corrosion-free, the concrete cover can be significantly reduced. This results in reduced weight and slimmer, more elegant components without compromising load-bearing capacity. Carbon concrete structures are also much more durable. This reduces maintenance costs and increases the sustainability of buildings.
Take advantage of the benefits of carbon concrete to make your concrete components lighter, more durable and more economical. We’ll show you how.
DAfStb Directive 2024: Planning reliability for carbon concrete reinforcement
The DAfStb directive for concrete components with non-metallic reinforcement, introduced in 2024, was a decisive breakthrough for the widespread acceptance of carbon fiber reinforcement. It offers planners, civil engineers and precast plants a new basis for greater planning reliability.
- No more project-specific special approvals: the directive establishes clear, generally accepted rules.
- Clear guidelines for design and execution: Clear standards facilitate application in the construction industry.
- Safe integration: The way is paved for the serial application of carbon reinforcement as standard technology.
These conditions enable you to benefit from superior technology without having to navigate bureaucratic hurdles.
Take advantage of the new directive to integrate carbon concrete into your construction projects in a compliant manner that is ready for series production. Without additional effort, but with maximum progress.
TFP technology: Precise fiber placement for lightweight carbon reinforcement
The enormous tensile strength of carbon fibers only develops in the direction of the fibers. These anisotropic properties often render conventional standard meshes inefficient, as the load lines of the components rarely run in a straight line.
This is where our Tailored Fiber Placement technology (TFP) comes into play. We place the carbon fibers using CNC embroidery technology and lay them with millimeter precision along the actual force flows.
The result is a carbon reinforcement that is not only lighter, but also offers a higher load-bearing capacity per unit weight. Through targeted fiber alignment, we avoid material accumulation and achieve optimal performance.
Take advantage of customized carbon reinforcement for maximum strength with minimal material usage.
Customized carbon reinforcement: Preforms for every component geometry
Standardized reinforcements are often a compromise. We go one step further and work with you to develop customized carbon preforms. By customizing the fiber architecture, the mesh size, fiber orientation, and number of layers can be precisely adapted to the static requirements of your components.
- Slimmer construction: Less concrete coverage enables delicate, modern designs.
- Maximum efficiency: Targeted fiber routing increases load capacity and reduces weight.
- Freedom of form: Even complex and non-rectangular geometries can be easily reinforced with optimal reinforcement.
As an experienced partner for carbon fiber preforms, we support you from the initial idea to series production and ensure that our semi-finished products can be seamlessly integrated into your manufacturing processes.
Choose custom-fit carbon reinforcement instead of compromises for maximum design freedom and maximum efficiency in your production.
Carbon reinforcement in use: advantages for your construction projects
Our carbon reinforcements are particularly suitable for applications where weight, durability, and design freedom play a decisive role.
- Balcony plates and facade elements: Slim, lightweight, yet highly durable.
- Staircases and prefabricated ceilings: Weight reduction facilitates transport and installation.
- Renovation and reinforcement: Corrosion-free reinforcement for existing structures.
The advantages of our TFP technology are convincing
- Corrosion-free and therefore long service life
- Weight reduction for easier logistics and assembly
- Material efficiency through reduced concrete cover
- Design freedom thanks to the adaptability of the fiber architecture
Harness the full potential of carbon reinforcement for lighter components, durable structures, and new architectural freedom.
Questions and answers about non-metallic reinforcement with TFP technology
What approvals or standards apply to the use of carbon reinforcement in concrete construction?
Since 2024, the DAfStb directive has regulated the use of non-metallic reinforcement such as carbon. It provides planning security without project-specific special approvals and greatly simplifies application.
How does carbon reinforcement differ from traditional carbon meshes?
Unlike standard fabrics, the carbon fibers in TFP are placed precisely along the force flows. This enables maximum material efficiency, less weight, and higher load-bearing capacity.
For which components is carbon reinforcement particularly suitable?
Ideal for lightweight, delicate concrete components such as facade panels, balcony slabs, stairs, or prefabricated ceilings. It also offers clear advantages in the renovation and reinforcement of existing structures.
Can carbon reinforcement be integrated into existing manufacturing processes?
Yes, the preforms are tailored to your component geometry and are designed to fit seamlessly into automated processes or existing formwork concepts.
How does carbon reinforcement affect the sustainability of a structure?
The absence of corrosion and reduced concrete cover significantly extend the service life. At the same time, CO₂ emissions and material consumption in production are reduced.
We produce fiber preforms as semi-finished products for you
Contact us and discuss your requirements for the precise reinforcement of your component, e.g. shape, layout and substrate material, with our TFP experts.
Together with you, we develop a fiber preform as a semi-finished product for further processing in your end product.
We embroider the desired fiber onto a near-net-shape cut carrier material that reinforces your product in exactly the right place.
We produce a sample that you can use and test in your production. After your approval, we start production of the fiber preforms in small or medium series at our site in Falkenstein / Vogtland.
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