At nearly 20 feet in length, LRM’s 190-pound structural H-beam is officially recognized as one of the world’s largest unitary thermoplastic composite parts, earning LRM the 2006 Building & Construction Award from the Alliance of Plastics Processors (APP) and the Society of the Plastics Industries (SPI). It was a key structural element of LRM’s innovative thermoplastic composite shelter prototypes for the US Air Force.

The composite shelter prototypes were produced with H-beam structural support and composite side, floor, and roof panels using LRM’s TPF ThermoPlastic Flowforming™ technology. The materials for these structural parts are polypropylene reinforced with half-inch glass fiber with an insert-molded steel tube.