STX™ Sheets - A Family of Glass Reinforced Engineering Polymer Materials

In the past 10 years a major new thermoplastics process has developed--plastics stamping. Stamping of plastics materials is not a new process, and it has developed from a simple idea: to use sheet metal processes and equipment to convert plastic sheets into parts of the right performance at the right price. This paper reviews STX stampable sheets, the part conversion processes, and some potential uses in the automotive industry.