An improved fabric backing for the manufacture of glass-reinforced thermoplastic panels that exhibits significantly greater foam adhesion than its scrim counterpart. That fabric backing includes a plurality of looped section extending upwardly (and inwardly) from its base for enhancing adhesion thereto. The combination is subjected to lamination for making an improved glass-reinforced thermoplastic interior wall panel. That wall panel can be used in a storage unit, such as a refrigerated trailer, railcar, shipping container and/or box truck.

A method of producing a laminated article comprising placing a first metal skin, a core, and a second metal skin freely onto each other as discreet layers to provide a layered component; and forming the layered component into a shaped article via a die prior to producing a laminated article by applying pressure and heat to the shaped article, wherein at least the first skin moves relative to the core and/or second skin during the forming.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to composite laminate structures having high bending stiffness and low heat release properties and methods of making the same.

Provided is a resin composition including 40 to 99% by mass of a fluorine-based resin (A), and 1 to 60% by mass of a matting agent (B), in which a swell ratio as measured under the conditions of a measurement temperature of 230° C., an ambient temperature of 23° C., and a shear rate of 96 (1/sec) is 0.90 to 2.00.

A thermal radiation shield for the floors of an RV unit, and for the various floor, ceiling, sidewalls of a slide out for said RV unit. The shield includes a low-emissivity, heat reflecting film that includes a metal coating layer, preferably vapor deposited, further protected by a layer of durable PET film.

A light reflecting film may be provided that improves the self-restoring property of a stretched section thereof when stretched and attached to a curved surface and that has excellent scratch resistance and light resistance, a production method for the light reflecting film, a decorative molding method may also be provided for the light reflecting film, laminated glass, and a curved surface body.

An intermediate laminate having a first adhesive layer and a first cross-linked cured resin layer laminated directly with no other layer interposed therebetween, the first adhesive layer having a polyvinyl acetal resin and/or an ionomer resin.

The present invention relates to a sandwich panel and a method of manufacturing the same. The sandwich panel according to the present invention has high density and improved physical properties such as flexural strength, flexural modulus, bending strength and lightening weighting ratio and is suitable for use in various consumer products or industrial materials.

The present invention relates to multi-layered hybrid and functional graded aluminum foam obtained from waste aluminum beverage cans, and to the production method thereof. This multi-layered aluminum composite foam can be used in bullet-proof armors in many fields such as aviation, defense industry, automotive and rail systems, in decreasing the impact effect in fast trains and automobiles, in vibration damping, in absorbing energy during impact and shock, in electromagnetic shields, as air buffer panel in carrying heavy vehicles such as tanks, in providing sound insulation on motorways and for flame retardant purposes.

An object of the present invention is to provide a prepreg and a laminate for producing a laminate suitable as a structural material, which have excellent joining strength and can be firmly integrated with another structural member by welding. The present invention provides a prepreg including the following structural components: [A] reinforcing fibers, [B] a thermosetting resin, and [C] a thermoplastic resin, wherein [A] has a surface free energy, measured by a Wilhelmy method, of 10 to 50 mJ/m.sup.2, [C] is present on a surface of the prepreg, and the reinforcing fibers [A] are present, which are included in a resin area including [B] and a resin area including [C] across an interface between the two resin areas.