What is PLA material? Polylactic acid (PLA) is a new bio-based and renewable biodegradable material made from starch extracted from renewable plant resources such as maize and cassava. Starch raw materials through saccharification to obtain glucose, and then from the glucose and a certain strain fermentation into high purity lactic acid, and then through chemical synthesis of a certain molecular weight of polylactic acid, the polymerization chain is as follows. Starch (refined) -- - > glucose (fermentation) -- - > lactic acid (cyclic) -- - > lactide (polymerization) -- - > the PLA PLA is the "green plastic" with the greatest development potential in the 21st century. It has good mechanical properties and transparency, but its shortcomings such as slow crystallization rate and poor heat resistance limit its popularization and use. Therefore, some toughening method is often used to enhance its performance, but at the expense of transparency or complex process. What is PLA LGF material? The rigidity of the fiber makes it play the role of skeleton support in the polymer matrix. When the polymer is heated, the movement of the chain segment is limited, thus improving the heat resistance of the material At present, carbon fiber and glass fiber can be used to enhance the modification of PLA. Among these fibers, carbon fiber and glass fiber are widely used because of their high strength and modulus. The composite material was prepared by adding fiber into PLA. After heat treatment, the modification effect of the composite material was the best, and the heat resistance temperature was increased by nearly 40℃ compared with that of pure PLA. Two or more materials with synergistic effect can be added at the same time to improve the thermal performance of PLA. The test results show that the Vica softening temperature of the composites exceeds 140℃. Production process Details Other products you may wonder                        PP-LGF                                  PA6-LGF                                   TPU-LGF             Frequently asked questions Q. Does long glass fiber and long carbon fiber injection have special requirements for injection molding machines and molds? A. There are certainly requirements. Especially from the product design structure, as well as the injection molding machine screw nozzle and mold structure injection molding process must consider the requirements of long fiber. Q. The product is easy to brittle, so changing to use long fiber reinforced thermoplastic materials can solve this problem? A. The overall mechanical properties must be improved. The characteristics of long glass fiber and long carbon fiber are the advantages in mechanical properties. It has 1-3 times higher (toughness) than short fiber, and the tensile strength (strength and rigidity) is increased by 0.5-1 times. Q. When a customer want to develop a new product, how to recommend customers suitable material and characteristics? A. It is necessary to understand the customer's technical requirements, use environment, test conditions for the new product, and recommend the model according to various kind of long-fiber resin substrate characteristics.