FILAVA™ MEDR BSB3.7 1600-80(10) IS65T CS01E

FILAVA™ is a direct roving made of enhanced volcanic rock filaments and manufactured in the melt spinning process, where the fibers are formed via a batch melt, followed by the lava which flow through bushing plates with nozzles and then vitrified by cooling.

FILAVA™ roving is a unique product thanks to a genuine and innovative treatment of the raw material, volcanic rock, which being the major ingredient, is aggregated and enriched with various mineral additives with the aim to increase and guarantee its original mechanical and chemical properties as well for maintain the evenness of the required mechanical properties. The components used in the batch aggregation and the fabrication process are ISOMATEX’s know-how and constitute its exclusive expertise.
Single-End and Multi-End assembly direct rovings consist of thousands of continuous filaments with elementary diameters from 9,0 to 11,0 μm. bonded into a single strand and wound onto a cardboard sleeves. A specially developed by matrices’ type sizing is applied on the fibers, which assures an excellent infusion and resin-to-reinforcement adhesion.

FILAVA™ is unique due to its high strength, high elasticity and resistance to high temperature as well as to temperature’s variation (contrarily to carbon which does not like thermal shocks). This compares well to existing high-end products (R - glassfibers, S - glassfibers). In addition and as noted above FILAVATM is always better in a chemical and alkaline environment, which gives it often a definitive advantage (for instance water and concrete is alkaline, which makes other high-end products not so suitable whenever the fiber is in contact with such elements).

FILAVATM rovings are designed to be used in applications requiring high mechanical properties, well wet-out and high infusion with organic matrices, where excellent processing is necessary, in thermoset matrices like epoxy resin, polyester, vinyl ester as well as in many thermoplastic systems. FILAVATM has very low catenary with smooth unwinding behavior throughout the package and has low fuzz properties that will result in smoother parts, less clean-up and improved machine efficiencies in downstream processing. Typical applications include weaving, braiding, high speed knitting, filament winding, UD-impregnation and pultrusion, chopping, …etc.

High mechanical properties such as Tensile Strength and Young modulus (elasticity), elongation and resistance to high temperature, chemical and alkali-resistance offers a unique combination of properties making FILAVATM completely compliant to the technical requirements of such high-end applications.

The applications where FILAVATM is used are basically endless …