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Welcome to FRT Tapes – Striving to bring affordable performance

Using our in-house developed High Pressure Fibre Impregnation Technology or HPFIT^TM, we produce high quality thermoplastic UD tapes with glass, carbon or other fibres. The essence of UDMAX^TM Tape performance is, optimal fibre spreading, while keeping a resin-rich surface layer at high fiber contents. Our products have an excellent fit with applications requiring strength and stiffness and manufacturing processes geared towards mass production.

Working with UDMAX^TM Tapes, pays off in reducing part and maintenance cost, provides the answer to reclycability needs and opens up the possibility to previously impossible injection solutions. FRT tapes is committed to offer affordable performance, please check out our website for more infomation or ‘contact us’

About us

Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastics Tapes (FRT Tapes) is a producer of thermoplastic UD composite tapes, based on proprietary HPFIT™ technology. FRT Tapes provides light weight solutions that make economic sense. Products are used in automotive, oil and gas, pressurized vessel and other industry segments.

FRT Tapes was founded in 2012 by Rinus Prins and Gerard de Weerd, after developing a very efficient and versatile method to produce thermoplastic polymer based UD tapes.

Since 2015, the FRT Tapes Offices and production is settled in Lelystad (NL).

Production Capability

Capacity: > 2kT/year
Tape width available up till 560 mm
Roll length available up till 5,000* running meter

*Width dependent

Various Product Forms

Slitting capacity from 5 mm – 560 mm
Pancake and crosswind capability
Cross-plies
Fabrics

Certificates

NEN-EN-ISO 9001:2015
ISO 14001:2015

Markets

Automotive
&
Transportation

Oil
&
Gas

Construction

Products

Our UDMAX^TM Tapes are manufactured using our unique, proprietary HPFIT^TM technology, resulting in high quality tape with:

Excellent fiber impregnation
High fiber content
Good fiber distribution
Twist-free fiber orientation

FRT Tapes UDMAX™ GPP 45-70 Tape can be used in a variety of composite solutions. This tape will help you and your customers to reduce the weight of your products. It will also improve the performance of your products regarding:

Strength & stiffness
Process ability

UDMAX™ GPP 45-70 Tape UDMAX™ GPP 40-65 AO Tape UDMAX™ GPP 45-70 FR Tape UDMAX™ GHDPE 46-70 XP001 Tape UDMAX™ GHDPE 40-65 XP011 Tape

Tailored service

In-house Customized Tape Slitting

FRT’s high end slitting equipment can slit UDMAX™ tapes precisely and in custom widths – starting at 5mm wide to larger sizes, as the customer requires. Additionally, using a high speed winding equipment, tapes can be winded under a controlled tension on the core in a parallel or cross wound manner. Depending on material specifications, UDMA™ tape rolls can be delivered up to 4,000 running meters of length.

Panel Solutions

Pressure Vessel Solutions

Laminate Solutions

Pipe Solutions

Technology

The basics for producing high performance UD tapes are speading fibre bundles to its individual filaments and fully wetting-out these filaments with polymer. High Pressure Fibre Impregnation Technology or HPFIT^TM, the FRT Tapes patented technology to produce high performing thermoplastic UD composite tapes, is efficiently following these basics. The combination of effective fibre spreading and direct melt impregnation, makes it possible to produce tapes with above market standard fibre content while maintaining a resin rich surface layer, as seen in the UDMAX^TM tape cross section. UDMAX^TM tapes offer high strength and stiffness as well as excellent processability, corrosion and fatigue resistant properties.FRT Tapes has in-house polymer formulation technology and in-line compounding capability. The flexibility of HPFIT^TM technology, to process different fibres and polymers in combination with in-house polymer formulation, makes for endless possibilities to offer solutions to the customers’ needs.