For years now, Quadrant has been developing and producing glass-mat-reinforced thermoplastics (GMT) for automobile production and is considered the market leader in this segment. Hardly a car leaves the production line without lightweight components fabricated with the special semi-finished products from the Swiss materials developer. 

Classic GMT materials consist of glass fiber mats manufactured to the company’s own patents, and these are impregnated with polypropylene in a second process step. The result is materials with outstanding impact resistance and optimum crash behavior. Even at low temperatures, GMT ensures high energy absorption before fracture and thereafter positive failure behavior without sharp lines of fracture.

GMT and GMTex reinforced with extra fabric are used for the production of semi-structural and structural components that meet the highest standards of crash safety for the protection of vehicle occupants and other road users. GMTex is even employed in areas conventionally reserved for metals.

Quadrant also produces a lightweight composite, a low-weight reinforced thermoplastic (LWRT), by the name of SymaLITE. This material consists of mixed-fiber fleeces of glass and polymer fibers supplied in rolls or boards. The moulder heats the material and produces the three-dimensionally molded component by low-pressure pressing.