Innovation, industrial and future trends

The pultrusion industry has been growing and the growth is driven by newer applications for pultruded composites. Advances in materials and innovations in the process have enabled manufacturers to design new or improved products (Busel, 2008). 

Various patents have been granted to manufacturers and operators of pultrusion equipment that have come out with innovations so as to improve upon the conventional pultrusion - such as pultrusion with variants for multi-layer, multi-directional, multi-material products of different forms. 

Pultrusion is one of the fastest growing processes within the industry for manufacturing composite products. The developments such as standards available to date, global market scenario, novel applications and future trends of the pultrusion industry are of interest to composite manufacturers and researchers. 

Standards play an important role in the acceptance of new materials. The following standards are available regarding the manufacture, quality determination and quality assurance of pultruded products  

EN13706 General European spedfications for pultruded profiles 

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