Lightweight plastic profiles: doing more with less
Lightweight construction is the philosophy of designing for low weight. Both the design and the choice of materials are important factors.
Optimize your projects with lightweight plastic profiles
Lightweight plastic profiles are the key technology for modern applications requiring both weight savings and high performance. Our advanced lightweight plastic profiles offer you the perfect combination of low weight, high strength and ease of processing, enabling you to implement your projects efficiently and successfully.
What major opportunities do lightweight plastic profiles offer for industry?
Lightweight plastic profiles offer numerous advantages that make them the solution of choice for many industrial applications:
- Weight reduction: The main advantage of our lightweight plastic profiles is the significant weight reductions they deliver. This results in lower transportation costs, easier handling and improved energy efficiency.
- High strength coupled with low weight: Despite their low weight, these profiles exhibit exceptional strength and stability. This makes them ideal for applications in which both stability under load and reduction of weight to a minimum are crucial.
- Cost efficiency: By reducing material consumption and optimizing production processes, lightweight plastic profiles represent a cost-efficient solution for numerous applications.
- Corrosion resistance: Our plastic profiles are resistant to many media, which increases their reliability and extends their service life.
- Flexibility in processing: Ease of processing enables custom profiles to be manufactured for specific requirements, creating additional design freedom. We would be happy to process your profiles to your specifications.
Typical applications for lightweight plastic profiles
Lightweight plastic profiles are used in a wide range of products and sectors. Selected examples:
- Transportation and logistics systems: Lightweight profiles for containers and shelving systems that improve efficiency in logistics and storage.
- Building and façade elements: For use in lightweight load-bearing systems, façade designs and interior finishing, to ensure structural integrity coupled with minimum weight.
- Vehicle construction: For use in structural and bodyshell components of passenger cars and commercial vehicles, to reduce weight and increase performance.
- Furniture manufacture: Innovative lightweight profiles for furniture that contribute to modern and functional designs owing to their low weight and high strength.
- Sports and leisure equipment: Manufacture of lightweight but robust sports and leisure equipment designed for high loads and intensive use.
- Electrical and power engineering: Use in lightweight and robust enclosures for electrical equipment and power distribution systems, offering high levels of performance and protection.
- Robotics and aviation: Reduction of mass in moving systems in order to save energy or fuel.
Custom solutions for your requirements
Our lightweight plastic profiles are available in a range of geometries and specifications to meet your individual requirements.
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