Free Form Fibers

Free Form Fibers created a new technology to manufacture high-performance fibers (HPF) at a substantially lower cost and environmental impact than competing processes. This company's proprietary process is capable of making continuous filaments of nearly any material that has been deposited by conventional chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Until now, many of these materials have never been commercially available in fiber form.

Process

The process at Free Form Fibers is ideal for making low-cost, high-purity, continuous ceramic and inorganic fibers. Advantages of this break-through technology include:

Short development cycles

New products possible

In-situ changes to material composition and fiber diameter

Single-crystal filaments

Custom filament diameters between 10 and 300 microns

Custom coatings.

Applications

Main applications for Free Form Fibers technology include, but are not limited to:

High-temperature, low corrosion non-woven filters and catalysts

Refractory fibers for high and ultra-high temperature reinforcement of ceramic matrix composites (CMC) and metal matrix composites (MMC)

Woven and non-woven linings

Lightweight structural reinforcement for composite materials

Superconducting filaments

Research and Development, scientific instrumentation.