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GRP manufacturers – the busiest bees on the planet

Why are GRP manufacturers the busiest bees in the whole world? Because GRP, or glass reinforced plastic (that's actually fibreglass, if you want to know its common or garden name) is used in more it in just about every carriage industrial, commercial and civic applications than probably any other commonly made substance. Glass reinforced plastic is so strong for its weight that it can comfortably make the body of a performance sports car – and, indeed, with carbon fibre or graphite weave, will make components for racing cars. It is so easy to mould that it appears as sound buffers on the roofs of concert halls.

GRP manufacturers have been responsible for a lot of this diversification and expansion – and a good deal of the innovation that has gone along with it, too. The properties of glass reinforced plastic, after all, have changed not one whit, since the substance first started to be used in the 1950s. It is simply that the ways in which that substance could be used have been explored tirelessly pretty much from day one.

It was, for example, an English manufacturer of glass reinforced plastic items and moulds who discovered that GRP could be moulded with foreign materials to create all sorts of protective applications. This British GRP manufacturers company started to incorporate heat resistant and chemically resistant plastics into its moulds, which enabled it to develop containment tanks for corrosive and otherwise hazardous chemicals. It has also been instrumental in developing GRP mould applications for high performance concept sports cars, train carriages and laboratory storage needs. In general, glass reinforced plastic mould manufacturers have tended to create their own advancements in this way – by developing their own uses of the material so that individual or one off projects and commissions can be completed for their clients.

All GRP manufacturers these days have benefitted from the actions of the glass reinforced plastic pioneers, the companies that started working with the material back in the 60s when it was still an emerging technology. It would not be possible to discover glass reinforced plastic in every carriage of every train, on every bus and in every public swimming pool, had it not been worked on and experimented with to such a degree by the original companies that were dealing in it.

These days, glass reinforced plastic is used in everything. You will not go through a day of your life without contacting it, or using it directly, in one way or another. If you go through road works on your way to school or the office you will see glass reinforced plastic, in the form of traffic cones. If you cross any light operated crossing during your day, the casing was probably made by GRP manufacturers. The stuff is quite literally everywhere. And that is all thanks to the companies and people who have been moulding it since the beginning.

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Chem help! Composite materials are typically reinforced plastics. What properties do the embedded glass fiber?

What properties do the embedded glass fibers or graphite fibers give to composites? Do you foresee any recycling problems with these materials?

There are many composite materials other than plastics - concrete, for example. To answer your specific question: With a few minor exceptions, the glass, carbon and graphite fibers in plastic materials improve stiffness, strength and impact resistance.

Recycling these reinforced plastics depends on whether they are thermoplastics or thermosets. The thermoplastics can be thermally recycled but will have lower properties than the virgin materials. Thermosets may be ground up and used as fillers in other materials.

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