A skin component for a vehicle for use as a roof module, an engine compartment hood or a trunk lid is disclosed. The skin component includes at least one supporting layer and a protective layer. The protective layer includes a fiber-reinforced band that is installed along at least one outer edge of the skin component.

A thermally conductive rope includes a plurality of tows of crystalline carbon fiber, a plurality of tows of additional fiber, and at least one of a thermoset and thermoplastic.

A meshwork has a layer forming a mesh, the mesh layer being disposed between parallel tension ribbons which are opposite one another in pairs. The tension ribbons have a thermoplastic bonding layer on the side facing the mesh layer and are connected to one another and to the mesh layer via the bonding layer. The mesh layer takes the form of a plastic net having meshwork webs which are connected to one another in a materially bonded manner and which are stretched and form diamond-shaped meshes, the longitudinal diagonals of which extend transversely to the tension ribbons.

A method to form a part can comprise forming a pattern with a commingled yarn (10), wherein the commingled yarn comprises thermoplastic resin filaments (40) formed from a thermoplastic material and reinforcing filaments (20) formed from a reinforcing material, and wherein the reinforcing material has a glass transition temperature and/or a decomposition temperature that is higher than a glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic material; attaching the pattern to a carrier material (76) to form a preform (70); and using the preform to form a part.

Unitary films and laminates thereof are provided having at least first and second film segments which extend adjacent one another and are permanently joined together. The first and second film segments are joined at an interface, wherein at the interface a tip of the second segment overlaps the first segment in the cross-direction of the film. The film has a thickness T at the tip of the second segment, and the second segment has a thickness t at a distance T in the cross direction from the tip of the second segment. The ratio T/t is suitably greater than about 3. The unitary films and laminates thereof are well suited, for example, for use as outer covers in personal care articles.

A method of manufacturing a fabric for a carbon fiber reinforced composite material includes binding a front texture woven with warp threads and weft threads which are carbon fibers and a back texture woven with warp threads and weft threads which are thermoplastic resin fibers at binding points to integrate the front texture and the back texture.

A composite manufacturing method includes the step of drawing a nonwoven fabric formed of continuous fibers through a slurry of discontinuous fibers suspended in a dispersive liquid to yield a fiber-modified interlayer comprising a network of said discontinuous fibers attached to said nonwoven fabric.

A method of manufacturing a composite part comprising a core and at least one skin region formed of a low friction UHMWPE skin polymer attached thereto, by: a) providing a mold with a heatable mold cavity; b) loading into the mold cavity UHMWPE powder followed by a core element having a surface with at least one contacting region provided with a plurality of anchoring sites, loading onto the core element, a layer of UHMWPE in powder form adjacent the contacting region, and applying a heat pressing step to melt the skin polymer powder to form a molten skin polymer matrix, and cooling to solidify the skin polymer matrix forming a skin region mechanically engaged into anchoring sites of the core element.

A product is provided with a body with a nonrectangular cross section with a mesh of strands of expanded thermoplastic resin. A density of the mesh of strands about a perimeter of the nonrectangular cross section is greater than within the perimeter. The perimeter is provided with at least one recess formed therein.

A repulpable insulated container assembly having a container formed of paper such as corrugated cardboard or varying paper materials and defining an interior; and a repulpable insert placed within the interior of the container and formed of a first paper layer; and a paper fiber pad coupled to the first paper layer.