Nittobo's chopped strand mats are a high-quality basic ingredient of glass fiber, which are produced under rigorous quality control using the most advanced mat machine.
Nittobo meets customers' needs by offering products with various weights mainly for hand lay-up and waterproofing work.
Chopped strand mats for hand lay-up
Nittobo's chopped strand mats for hand lay-up improve moldability in hand lay-up molding and increase affinity with various kinds of resin in order to enhance the strength and boiling resistance of molded products.
Its tape mats, meanwhile, are chopped strand mats cut in tape shape in advance to facilitate corner reinforcement, overlay, adhesion, and other sorts of work. The tape mats are useful as basic supplementary material.
List of products (standard products)
Typical product types
Yarn count (g/m2)
Roll weight/length
104 cm in width
156 cm in width
186 cm in width
Weight (kg)
Length (m)
Weight (kg)
Length (m)
Weight (kg)
Length (m)
MC 300 A - (Width)
300
30
96
45
96
53
96
MC 380 A - (Width)
380
30
76
-
-
53
76
MC 450 A - (Width)
450
30
64
45
64
53
64
MC 600 A - (Width)
600
30
48
45
48
53
48
*1 The hardness of each type of chopped strand mat is adjusted for optimal hand lay-up molding. Furthermore, customers can choose from among standard (A), soft (AS), and hard (AH) types according to the size of resin and molded products, the complicatedness of shape, and so forth.
*2 Chopped strand mats 156 cm in width is designed only for Type A.
Example of applications
Pseudo-rock
List of products (tape mat)
Typical product types
Yarn count (g/m2)
Roll width (cm)
Roll count per carton
Weight per carton (kg)
MC 450 A-010
450
10
10
30
MC 450 A-020
450
20
5
30
MC 450 A-030
450
30
3
27
Chopped strand mats for waterproofing work
Nittobo's chopped strand mats for waterproofing work have deckle edges for waterproofing work. These mats have been developed to increase efficiency of waterproofing work and help improve surface finish.
In addition, the thickness of the portion of mat that is lain on top of one another is made even to render waterproofing work easy and improve post-lining external appearance.
List of products
Typical product types
Yarn count (g/m2)
Roll width (cm)
Roll weight (kg)
Roll length (m)
MC 380 A-100
380
105
30
79
MC 450 A-100
450
105
30
66.7
MC 600 A-100
600
105
30
50
* The type with deckle edges on both sides (LL) has a red line for positioning at both ends. Other types with deckle edge on one side (LS) are also available.