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Thanks to the flexible and advanced fiber composites, Scanfiber’s products have a wide range of applications, such as in the military and law enforcement, civilian companies, and humanitarian organizations.

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Scanfiber’s lightweight armor is used in vehicles, ships, and aircraft, where only a minimum of additional weight is allowed. This ensures higher load capacity, maneuverability, acceleration, and a higher level of protection within the specified weight limits of the vehicle. Wear and maintenance costs are reduced, and it is often possible to decrease the weight of the armor by up to a third compared to the weight that steel would require, for example.​

The principle behind using fiber composites as armor is a dense weave of extremely strong and solid fibers that are bonded together in a special heating process. In this heating process, the strong fibers and matrix (the adhesive) are pressed tightly together, transforming it into a lightweight panel. Due to the dampening effect of the connected fibers and their high level of impact absorption, this transformation creates excellent protection against projectiles and fragments. Depending on the ballistic protection level, the composite panels can either be used alone or combined with a surface based on ceramic or ballistic steel. This achieves a very high level of protection and a surface that crushes or dulls the incoming projectile, which is then more effectively stopped by the underlying composite panel.