New Hammerhead™ FR Flame Retardant Composite Panels from Avient Featured at JEC World 2025

February 24, 2025

Avient will showcase its broad portfolio of advanced composites and engineered fiber solutions, including its new Hammerhead™ FR Flame-Retardant Thermoplastic Composite Panels, at JEC World 2025 in Paris from March 4 to 6. 

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PARIS – February 24, 2025 – Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, will showcase its comprehensive portfolio of advanced composite technologies and engineered fiber solutions next week at JEC World 2025, the leading international composites trade show. 

This includes highlighting the company’s new Hammerhead™ FR Flame Retardant Composite Panels, an industry-first, patent-pending thermoplastic composite sandwich structure featuring integrated flame retardance that can eliminate the need for additional FR sheets or coatings. The panels can be used in modular construction walls, flooring, and ceilings and can replace gypsum, drywall, and framed assemblies with a consolidated, lightweight structural solution. They also meet ASTM E84 Class A standards for flame spread and smoke density and passed NFPA 286 corner room burn testing.

In addition to Hammerhead™ FR panels, Avient will showcase technologies that offer high strength, weight reduction, and durability for a wide range of industries and markets, including: 

• Thermoplastic Composites:
  • Polystrand™ Continuous Fiber Tapes Laminates: fiber-reinforced unidirectional tapes and multi-axial laminates 
  • ThermoBallistic™ Ballistic Resistant Panels 
  • Hammerhead™ Marine Composite Panels: structural foam core sandwich panels
  • Polystrand™ Thermoplastic Composite Panels: honeycomb core sandwich panels
• Thermoset Composites:
  • Gordon Composites™ Thermoset Laminates & Barstock: continuous glass and carbon fiber barstock, laminates, and composite springs
  • Gordon Glass™ Archery Bow Limbs
  • Glasforms™ Pultruded Rods, Tubes & Custom Profiles
  • GlasArmor™ Ballistic Resistant panels 
• Engineered Fiber Solutions:
  • Fiber-Line™ Engineered Performance Enhancing Fiber Processes: including Coating, Twisting, and customized Braiding aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE, and LCP fibers
  • Fiber-Line™ Extrusion Process: thermoset pultruded rods and custom extrusion-coated fibers
  • Fiber-Line™ Specialty Engineered Thermoplastic Tapes: fiber-reinforced thermoplastic unidirectional tapes 
  • Upcoming high-performance carbon composite technologies

Avient will exhibit at JEC World in Paris, France, March 4-6, 2025, in Hall 5, Booth F49, at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Park. Avient’s Polystrand Thermoplastic Garage Door Panel will be displayed in the Industry Planet exhibition area in Hall 5, Booth F147. 

To learn more, explore Avient’s website for Advanced Composites and Engineered Fiber Solutions. 

About Avient

Our purpose at Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. Our local touch and customer engagement, combined with our global presence, allows us to serve customers with agility. We harness the collective strength of more than 9,000 employees worldwide to collaborate and build on each other’s ideas. In doing so, we innovate solutions that help our customers overcome their challenges or capitalize on opportunities provided by the fast-changing world and secular trends. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™. By intersecting our broad portfolio of technologies with the product roadmaps of our customers, we help create differentiated and high-performance products that make the world better and more sustainable. Visit www.avient.com to learn more.  

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Nicole DeChant
Avient Corporation
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