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Plastics News, February, 2000

Lancaster presents cost-effective fiber Lancaster Fiber Technology Group says it has a highly cost-effective e-glass fiber for short-fiber applications. The firm, based in Lancaster, England, produces Fiberlets from a glass-fiber byproduct. Fiberlets cost a fraction of conventional chopped strand or milled fiber, the company claims.

They have a low aspect ratio to give a free-flowing, easily processed material that can be compounded at high loading levels. Lancaster said Fiberlets are suited to thermoplastics and thermosets. The company makes the fibers under a licensing agreement with PPG Industries and Asset Associates Ltd. using a PPG byproduct stream. Tel. 44 (1524) 62711, fax 44 (1524) 64381, e-mail hstlawrence @liftgroup.com. AES TPEs suited...

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