Enhance your product with pinpoint accuracy.
✓ With stable + lightweight preforms made from fiber strands
✓ exactly where you need the structural capacity
✓ with a fiber orientation that supports the force distribution of your product or component.
Tailored fiber placement from TFP Technology
Complex reinforcement structures
Reinforcing structures are the core of our fiber preforms. They absorb and distribute loads, thus determining the mechanical properties of the finished composite material. These structures significantly influence the strength, stiffness, and durability of your final product.
We supply you with complex and high-performance reinforcement structures of superior quality. Our process integrates design, precision manufacturing, and quality assurance.
Reinforcement structures: technically embroidered
Using advanced CAD software, we plan the shape of the components and the specific arrangement of the reinforcing fibers together with you – exactly where you need the structural performance.
We use our CNC embroidery machines to produce the complex patterns and structures of the reinforcing fibers for you.
Near-net-shape manufacturing results in a maximum of 3% fiber rejects or waste.
Tailor-made reinforcement structures on versatile substrate materials
Reinforcement structures are created by precisely stitching high-performance fibers such as carbon, fiberglass, and aramid onto a substrate or fabric. Whether classic nonwovens, special films, or stretchable textiles, we apply the fibers to any desired flexible substrate . From the outset, we ensure that the substrate is ideally suited to your requirements, your product, and its intended application, while maintaining cost-effective production.
Do you need pure reinforcement structures without a carrier material ? Opt for removable nonwovens or films that can be removed without residue by water, heat or tearing.
Describe your component and the load situation to us. Together with you, we will design the appropriate reinforcement structure.
Tailored Fiber Placement combines precision and flexibility
- Precise fiber placement: Fibers are placed at specific angles and positions to optimally align load paths and maximize the structural integrity of the component.
- Tailor-made reinforcement: Areas subject to higher stresses are specifically reinforced by integrating additional fiber layers or fibers with higher density.
- Variability in fiber type: Different fiber types can be combined to achieve specific properties such as flexibility, heat resistance, or impact strength.
Reinforcement structures + Tailored Fiber Placement - Your advantages
- Optimal load distribution: The precise alignment of the fibers allows forces to be efficiently directed along the strongest fiber directions.
- Reduced weight with the same or improved strength: Material is only used where it is necessary for structural integrity. This results in lighter, yet robust components.
- Complex geometries: The TFP process enables the production of complex shapes that would not be possible or only achievable with great effort using traditional methods.
- Adaptability: Design changes can be implemented quickly because the fiber orientation and positioning are easily modifiable.
Textile preforms from the manufacturer
- You want your component or product made of plastic stable, lightweighter and powerful do?
- You are looking for a manufacturer who will work with you to develop a individually developed fiber reinforcement, which places your component exactly there flexibly reinforced, where you need structural capacity the most?
Get in touch with us! We look forward to your idea or challenge!
This is how your dry preforms are created.
- Joint development of a layout for the targeted enhancement of your product.
- Selection of suitable fibers, fiber combinations and carrier material
- Creation of CAD data on the PC
- Production of a sample
- Testing the sample preforms in your further processing
- Optimization or release for production
- Series production of your semi-finished products in small or large series through TFP Technology
Questions and answers about reinforcement structures from TFP Technology
Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions about reinforcement structures made from fiber preforms by TFP Technology. The FAQs will help you quickly assess how load-path-optimized fiber orientation, the choice of substrate material, and the fiber type are suitable for your component and your strength and weight requirements. If you already have CAD data or a sketch of your component, we can also check the feasibility together.
What is a reinforcement structure and what role does it play in fiber preforms?
A reinforcing structure is the fiber-stitched arrangement within a fiber preform that absorbs and distributes the forces occurring in the finished composite material. It therefore significantly determines the strength, stiffness, and durability of the finished component. Without a specifically designed reinforcing structure, a fiber composite component would remain structurally under-dimensioned despite the use of high-quality fibers.
How is the fiber orientation in a reinforcement structure adapted to the load paths of a component?
TFP Technology works with you using CAD to plan the direction and density of the fibers within the reinforcement structure to accommodate the calculated force distributions in the component. Areas with higher loads receive additional fiber layers or a higher fiber density, while less stressed zones require less material. This allows weight to be saved precisely where it does not compromise the component's strength.
What substrate materials are used for reinforcement structures?
For reinforcement structures, TFP Technology processes classic nonwovens, special films, and stretchable textiles as carrier materials for the embroidered fibers. The choice of material depends on the planned further processing and the requirements of the specific component. Unusual or delicate carrier materials can also be integrated into the embroidery process upon request.
Can a reinforcement structure be manufactured without a permanent support material?
Yes, for purely reinforcing structures without a permanent carrier material, TFP Technology uses removable nonwovens or films that can be completely removed after the embroidery process using water, heat, or tearing. Only the fiber framework itself remains, without any additional carrier material in the finished component. This is particularly suitable when a permanent carrier material would impair the subsequent material properties of the composite.
How much fiber waste is generated during the production of reinforcement structures?
Near-net-shape manufacturing using Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP) results in a maximum fiber waste of 3 percent for reinforcement structures. The fibers are stitched directly in the required shape and quantity, instead of being cut from a larger area. This significantly reduces both material costs and waste compared to traditional cutting methods.
Which fiber types are suitable for reinforcement structures?
For reinforcement structures, high-performance fibers such as carbon, glass fiber, and aramid are primarily used, and these can be combined depending on the requirements. Different fiber types within a single structure make it possible to specifically adjust properties such as flexibility, heat resistance, or impact strength. Which combination is suitable depends on the intended application and subsequent processing.
How does the development of a customized reinforcement structure with TFP Technology work?
The process begins with the joint development of a layout that specifically aligns the fiber orientation with the component's load paths, as well as the selection of fiber and substrate material. TFP Technology then creates the CAD data and manufactures a prototype, which the customer tests in their own processing facilities. After optimization and approval, series production of the semi-finished products begins in small or large batches.
Fiber preforms can do even more
Fiber preforms for thermoplastic processing methods
Using an advanced TFP process, we produce fiber preforms specifically for processing with thermoplastics.
Fiber preforms for thermoset processing methods
Using an innovative TFP process, we produce fiber preforms for thermoset processing.
Preforms with heating conductors for integration into fiber composites
Integrate a heating function seamlessly and homogeneously into your fiber composite component or plastic product!
Preforms with sensors for integration into fiber-reinforced composites
Seamlessly expand your fiber composite component with necessary or additional functions, such as damage sensing, measurement data acquisition, data transmission and much more!
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