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GRP - or FRP or Fibreglass or Glassfibre - is a composite made up from a fibre reinforcement encased in a set material. In practice and in the majority of manufacture this comprises of glass fibre which reinforces a cured polyster resin. The resulting "composite" is employed to manufacture products for a vast range of applications. Nowadays the GRP processor has available to him a full portfolio of resins and reinforcements that permit the production of race car suspension components, washers, wind turbine blades, sports racquet frames, bridges, planters, dormer units, fishing rods, chemical tanks, leaf springs and much, much more.
Nowadays the best properties of composites can be exploited in the design of products specifically for the job in question. Composites tensile strength is greater than steel; vinyl ester resins are used to make components that resist highly aggressive chemicals; fire resistant additives and dimensional stability are attractive to the designer of rolling stock; light weight with high weather resistance make it the choice for kiosks and housings in remote areas where they can be installed and forgotten about; tunnel linings in phenolic with its low ignition and smoke emission and the use of fire-resistant GRP for cable trays on oil rigs and the like; where low ignition and toughness in expossed locations... just some of what can be done with GRP and its off-shoots.
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