Trade show notes, product launches, academic technical articles and news from the composite thermoplastic world — Hightech Polimer's industry blog. Field notes from PlastEurasia to Chinaplas, from HIGH-STRAN PEEK to large format 3D printing.
At PlastEurasia Istanbul 2024, held December 4–7, 2024 at the Tuyap Fair Center, we showcased our flagship product HIGH-STRAN PEEK LCF40, our pellet portfolio for large format 3D printing, and our project-based custom formulation capabilities. We appeared live on Bloomberg HT's Business Time program to discuss Turkey's composite thermoplastic market. Over 4 days, our booth hosted more than 200 professional visitors and received tremendous interest.
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The world's largest plastics and composites trade show, Chinaplas 2026, will be held in April 2026 in Shenzhen, China. As Hightech Polimer, we will be present at the Xiamen LFT joint booth area to introduce our next-generation LFT-G formulations and large format 3D printing pellet innovations. Contact us for appointment requests.
We participated in Chinaplas 2025, held April 15–18, 2025 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition Center, as the sole authorized distributor of Xiamen LFT in Turkey. At the trade show featuring over 4,000 companies worldwide, we observed the latest trends in the long fiber reinforced thermoplastic market and established key contacts with OEM engineers and tier-1 suppliers.
With 40% long carbon fiber reinforcement on a PEEK matrix achieving 260 MPa tensile strength, 40 GPa elastic modulus and 340°C HDT, HIGH-STRAN PEEK LCF40 is our flagship product developed for aerospace, defense and semiconductor industries. Mechanical values rivaling metal come with the lightness and corrosion resistance of polymer.
During the PlastEurasia 2024 trade show, we were guests on Bloomberg HT's Business Time program. We discussed our growth story in Turkey's composite thermoplastic market, our Xiamen LFT distributorship, and the application areas of long fiber reinforced thermoplastics spanning from automotive to aerospace.
Long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT-G) deliver 121% higher tensile strength, 100% higher elastic modulus, 200% higher notched impact, and 250% greater fatigue life compared to their short fiber (SFT) counterparts. In this article, we examine the fiber length–performance relationship, pultrusion process, and fiber preservation during injection with academic references.
The industrial pellet extrusion-based large format additive manufacturing market is growing over 30% annually. As Hightech Polimer, through our Avenco technology partnership, we offer a pellet portfolio with carbon and glass fiber reinforcement on PA6, PA66, PPS and PEEK matrices, ready for direct use in large format 3D printer systems.
The electric vehicle transition in automotive, fuel efficiency in aerospace, weight reduction in home appliances — all these trends point to the same goal: lighter, stronger, easier-to-form materials. Long fiber reinforced thermoplastics present the winning alternative against aluminum and steel. We examine it with 5 real field examples.
We signed the sole authorized distributorship agreement for Turkey with Xiamen LFT Composite Plastic Co., Ltd., China's largest long fiber reinforced thermoplastic (LFT-G) manufacturer and a reference player in the global market. This partnership means Turkey's industry gains rapid access to over 40 LFT-G products.