Pultrusions are 20-25% the weight of steel and 70-75% the weight of aluminum. Pultruded products are easily transported, handled and lifted into place. Total structures can often be pre-assembled and shipped to the job site ready for installation.
Pultruded Profiles
ICP Pultruded profiles - stronger than structural steel on a weight-for-weight basis, pultruded profiles have been used to form the superstructures of multistory buildings, walkways, sub-floors and platforms.
Pultrusions are 20-25% the weight of steel and 70-75% the weight of aluminum. Pultruded products are easily transported, handled and lifted into place. Total structures can often be pre-assembled and shipped to the job site ready for installation.
Pultruded products will not rot and are impervious to a broad range of corrosive elements. This feature makes pultrusions a natural selection for indoor or outdoor structures in pulp and paper mills, chemical plants, water and sewage treatment plants, structures near salt water and other corrosive environments.
Non-Conductive
Glass reinforced pultrusions have low thermal conductivity and are electrically non-conductive.
Electro-Magnetic Transparency
Pultruded products are transparent to radio waves, microwaves and other electromagnetic frequencies.
Dimensional Stability
The coefficient of thermal expansion of pultruded products is slightly less than steel and significantly less than aluminum.
Parts Consolidation
Custom designed pultrusions allow multiple discrete parts to be designed and fabricated into a single part thus reducing the number of fabricated parts and the need to join these parts together.
Low Temperature Capabilities
Glass fiber reinforced pultrusions exhibit excellent mechanical properties at very low temperatures, even -70�F. Tensile strength and impact strengths are greater at -70�F than at +80�F.
Aesthetics
Pultruded profiles are pigmented throughout the thickness of the part and can be made to virtually any desired custom color. Special surfacing veils are also available to create special surface appearances such as wood grain, marble, granite, etc.
Sizes:
Practically any profile of uniform cross section can be produced up to 400mm wide and 200mm high, with a minimum wall thickness of 2.5mm. Also since it is a continuous process, the length is practically unlimited, constrained only by transportation options.
Custom profiles can be produced according to customer specification; however the following guidelines should be kept in mind.
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Max width = 400mm, Height = 200mm, Min Thickness = 2.5mm
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Max Thickness for Hollow Sections = 12mm
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Minimum Radius = 1mm
