Notice of Nomenclature Change for Continuous Filament Products
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Continuous carbon fiber grades, supplied as filament tow, are ideally suited for use in processes such as prepregging, filament winding, pultrusion, and weaving. The fiber is surface treated to improve the fiber-to-resin interfacial bond strength. Additionally, fiber sizing is applied to protect the fiber and to improve handling and wet-out. The sizing is fully compatible with epoxy and vinylester resin systems. Application areas for these fibers include products for the aerospace, defense, recreation and general industrial markets.

Chopped Chopped carbon fiber products provide good processability, resin matrix compatibility, and good translation of mechanical and electrical properties.	Milled Milled carbon fibers are random, short-length fiber materials. Typical applications include electronic chip carrier trays, conductive flooring, and chassis for electronic business machines.
Pelletized Chopped Pelletized chopped products are dust and "fly" free. Pelletized products can be used in batch handling equipment, providing rapid, uniform, and zero "fly" distribution into pre-blends.	Pelletized Milled Pelletized milled carbon fibers are random, short-length fiber materials employing a low-level binder to provide pellet integrity during processing. Pelletized milled products offer all of the performance benefits of regular milled carbon fibers in a free flowing, dust and "fly" free spherical form. The pelletized milled grades are ideally suited for automatic feeding and metering of the material into compounding extruders. Plastic components reinforced with pelletized milled carbon fibers are dimensionally stable and distortion-free.
Water Dispersible Chopped Water dispersible chopped carbon products use a water dispersible sizing that permits easy fiber dispersion into a randomly orientated system with no individual fibers remaining blended together. Fibers with these characteristics are typically used in a water slurry process to make electrically conductive paper or mat.

Metal coated fibers are available where specific electrical functionality is needed. Examples of applications include lightning strike protection, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, and radio frequency interference (RFI) shielding. Continuous and chopped forms are available.

OPF is a thermally stable, oxidized PAN fiber with excellent thermal and chemical resistance. OPF fiber does not burn, melt or char, resists most chemicals, is impervious to molten-metal splash and has exceptional electrical resistance.

It has a wide variety of applications including protective clothing, sealing devices, friction products and protective coverings. Spun yarns are easily converted to fabric or braids using standard textile equipment. OPF is also available as a staple fiber for production of mats and felts, or production of spun yarns