Free Form Fibers has developed a process based on chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to create inorganic High Performance Fibers (HPFs) for use in a variety of challenging applications. HPFs are sought when a combination of extreme material properties is required which cannot be met by existing metal filaments or by carbon, glass, vegetal or mineral fibers. Relevant applications exist in military and aerospace (turbo machinery, rockets, advanced structures), automobile, biomedical, energy and other industries that require advanced materials with exceptional strength, stiffness, heat resistance and/or chemical resistance. Of the many advanced materials known, only a select few have been made into HPF and, until now, there has been no generic process by which fibers from such materials could be formed. Free Form Fibers provides a new technology for producing high-performance fibers (HPF) at a substantially lower cost and environmental impact than competing processes. The proprietary process is capable of making continuous filaments of nearly any material that has been deposited by conventional chemical vapor deposition (CVD): deal for making low-cost, high-purity, continuous ceramic and inorganic fibers. Only recently have many of these materials been commercially available in fiber form.
