Next generation hockey sticks incorporate TFP nonwovens

CCM Hockey is one of the largest ice hockey equipment manufacturers in the world, supplying high quality sticks, skates and other hockey equipment to the National Hockey League. Its sporting goods have delivered the necessary performance to help create many NHL champions over the last 80 years. The next generation of CCM sticks, featuring TFP veil, are engineered to deliver industry leading performance and strength.

The lightweight glass veil from TFP’s Optiveil range fulfils a number of functions in the advanced composite structure of the sticks. Primarily used for manufacturing efficiency, Optiveil features an even fibre distribution that provides a low-tack surface on the uncured parts and a quality surface finish after moulding. The high porosity of the veil also minimises microporosity.

The Optiveil range is specifically designed for use in composites. It’s widely used as a surfacing veil and, when incorporated at the surface of the composite consistently delivers a quality surface finish with micro crack suppression. In addition, when incorporated in either the interlaminar or surface regions, the veil serves as a flow media to reduce porosity, part weight and scrap.

TFP nonwovens are used to enhance composite fabrication and performance in a wide range of advanced sporting goods, such as bicycle frames, skis and snowboards, tennis racquets, kayak paddles, archery materials and fishing rods.

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