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Leading the way: high-tech nonwovens for fuel cells

Whether in the automotive industry as propulsion unit or range extender, whether for consumer electronics, forklift trucks, aerospace, back-up power or stationary electricity or power generation, fuel cell technology is becoming increasingly prevalent. Developed specifically for this pioneering market, gas diffusion layers (GDL) from Freudenberg Performance Materials are characterized by excellent quality standards and exceptional functional flexibility. Perfect management of reaction media optimized for all operation modes, high thermal and electric conductivity, optimum protection of the membrane against damage and very good processing properties are just a few of the features that characterize these advanced nonwovens.

Optimum safety in battery cells: nonwovens as battery separators

The product portfolio of Freudenberg Performance Materials includes high-performance separators for various applications and cell types. They all guarantee reliable separation, high energy efficiency, easy and economical installation, and safe operation.

Lithium-ion batteries, such as those used in the automotive industry, place especially high demands on separators, which play a decisive functional role. With our special separators for lithium-ion batteries, Freudenberg Performance Materials offers pioneering solutions in this area. These separators are made from ultra-thin PET nonwovens impregnated with ceramic particles. This enables a higher energy density to be achieved while simultaneously significantly increasing the safety of the battery cells.

Reliable protection: nonwovens for the cable industry

Freudenberg Performance Materials manufactures high-quality nonwovens for almost any application in the cable industry. Our products are part of modern cable constructions and effectively protect cables against water penetration during the entire service life. Our product portfolio includes conductive and non-conductive water blocking tapes as well as binding, bedding and separation tapes. Because we are constantly adding new solutions to our portfolio, customers can find not only nonwovens for use in medium voltage cables, special, telecommunication and fiber-optic cables, but also high-tech solutions for high-voltage and submarine cables.

Safety through expertise: nonwovens for the electrical industry

Nonwovens from Freudenberg Performance Materials make a crucial contribution to providing consumers, industry and public institutions with safe electricity. These nonwovens are continuously temperature resistant, durable and feature high impregnability, making them suitable for a wide variety of functions. In motors, generators and transformers, they act as a central component in phase and layer insulation and as a spacer between components. We also offer thermally extremely durable nonwovens for high-performance applications, which retain their efficiency even under tough conditions.

Super Caps

Known in the industry as ‘super caps’, supercapacitors are high-performance capacitors that work in a similar way to these batteries and have a particularly high capacity. Freudenberg Performance Materials has developed special ‘separator nonwovens’ especially for this application. Super caps can store and discharge energy very quickly, when necessary. They are used, for example, during the lifting and lowering of containers when loading and unloading ships.