They can be used alone or in conjunction with other materials such as thermoplastics, wood, and metal, and manufactured with techniques such as overmolding, coextrusion, and thermal lamination to incorporate CFRTP tapes and laminates into hybrid, multi-material structures. A video demonstration of compression molding using Avient’s Polystrand CFRTP material can be viewed here. A lower-pressure method than compression molding, vacuum bagging uses vacuum pressure to compress the material into a final shape. 

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