After the explosion of developments in polymer formulations over the last year, it is worth taking a closer look during Fakuma at details such as functional additives or application-specific modifications. Overall, lightweight design continues to spur development but defined surface characteristics are also in demand. The reported innovations do not just follow current consumer trends but also provide ideas for advanced product and process developments. 

Functional Modifications Characterize Developments in Additives and Compounds 

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Polymers Can Be Expected Everywhere 

Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the value chain initiative to increase the circularity of styrenic polymers, today announced that CEDAP, Compagnie Européenne Des Applications Plastiques, joins the organisation.

SCS develops solutions to combine the benefits of polystyrene in Form, Fill and Seal (FFS) dairy packaging with circularity

16:9

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CEDAPJoins Styrenics Circular Solution

The Danish company Plastix recycles old fishing nets and ropes. The granules produced are used by JSP International, among others, to manufacture expanded polypropylene (EPP).

11 % of the plastic waste in the sea comes from the maritime industry. For the recycling of old fishing nets and ropes, accurate sorting is very important

Expanded Polypropylene from Maritime Plastic Waste

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From Fishing Net to Particle Foam

Weight reduction is one of the major requirements of automotive components. Regardless of the vehicles in which they are used. One of the lightest materials that can be considered is polypropylene (PP).

The Chinese manufacturer NIO uses carbon fiber-reinforced PP compounds for the center console support of the ES8 electric SUV

PP Compounds for Automotive Lightweight Construction

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Easier to Reach the Destination

Higher mechanical properties with lower density make polypropylene an interesting alternative to polyethylene for a large number of applications. New catalysts and production processes offer a wider range of products. Monolayer films and recycling are under development. In the meantime, China consumes almost one-third of the PP produced worldwide.

The ReOil pilot plant at OMV AG in Schwechat, Austria, converts plastic wastes with poor recycling properties into cracker raw material, and hence into potential monomers

Growth through Sustainability and Technical Specialization

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Milliken PP additive for thermoforming uses cleaner chemistry to deliver brighter look.

With its growing range of Hyperform HPN high-performance additives, Milliken helps converters improve their processing and enhance the performance of their final PP parts

Warmformen / Thermoformen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

New PP Additive for Thermoforming Food-Contact Applications

Milliken & Company will be showcasing its product portfolio of polymer additives and colorant capabilities at booth 01/A22 at Interplastica 2022 in Russia.

DeltaMax performance modifiers for polypropylene impact copolymers.

Polymer Additive Solutions

Mars Petcare will use Sabic’s BCT18F impact-resistant polypropylene copolymer for the retort pouches of its Sheba cat food brand.

In the future, Sheba wet cat food will be sold in retort pouches with recycled content.

Sustainable Retort Pouches

The new unit in Baton Rouge, LA/USA, increases polypropylene (PP) production capacity along the Gulf Coast by 450,000 t per year.

ExxonMobil Doubles PP Production at Baton Rouge

Borealis announces the signing of an agreement to acquire Rialti, one of Europe’s leading producers of mechanically recycled polypropylene (PP) compounds for injection moulding and extrusion.

Rialti, based in Verese, Italy, has a capacity of 50,000 tonnes of recycled PP-Compounds per year.

Länderspecial Italien

kunststoffe.de

kunststoffe-international.com

Borealis to Acquire Rialti

The first series application of the lightweight material microsandwich in 2018 will reduce the weight of vehicle interior trim components by up to 50 %. The efficient one-shot process on existing manufacturing systems offers cost-effective component production by virtue of its short cycle times, as illustrated by the example of a door pocket. 

Microsandwich Made from a Fiber-Reinforced PP Nonwoven and a PET Foam Core for  Vehicle Interior Trim Components 

Polyethylenterephthalat

Hybridtechnik

Fasern

Lean Material Mix for Lightweight Interiors 

Induction as contactless heating technology is also attractive for composite materials. The efficiency of the technology has so far been limited by the resulting complex temperature distribution. Therefore, it is necessary to fundamentally investigate the influences of the laminate parameters on the induction heating behavior of CFRP. 

Influences of Laminate Parameters on the Induction Heating Behavior of CFRP 

Heizung

Kohlenstofffasern / -matten

Faserverarbeitung

Industrieroboter

Induction Heating of CF-Reinforced Polymers 

A low-emission polypropylene compound and a masterbatch specially developed for fiber-reinforced structural components meet the current requirements of the automotive industry. The new developments help reduce odor in auto interiors and produce engine components that can withstand even the highest temperatures. 

New Developments: Low-Emission and Heat-Resistant 

A newly developed, flame-retardant, glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene compound with low density meets important requirements for a lightweight construction material. There is a particular demand for such materials in aircraft construction and automotive engineering, where reducing fuel and power consumption is a priority. 

Polypropylene: Lightweight and Flame-Retardant 

In appearance applications in the automotive sector, natural fiber-reinforced materials must not only exhibit processability by means of injection molding and provide the mechanical properties required, they must above all satisfy challenging requirements in terms of coloring. At the same time, specific temperature-related characteristics of natural fibers must be taken into account. Knowledge of the relationships makes it possible to produce components even in light colors. 

Coloring: Coloring Cellulose Fiber-Reinforced Polypropylene 

Modification of a polypropylene matrix by the use of hollow glass microspheres

To ensure better stability of expanded polystyrene insulation panels on the house wall, they are fastened with an additional polypropylene (PP) anchor. However, the fact that two different materials are used results in thermal bridges due to different thermal conductivities (TC), which can be seen visually as the formation of mold and algae, but also cause energy losses. The motivation for this work was to adjust the WLF of the two materials by using a filler, but not to negatively influence the mechanical strength of the anchor.

In the search for a suitable filler to reduce the TC, micro hollow glass spheres (MHGS) emerged as suitable candidates. MHGS, as the only inorganic filler, exhibit a lower TC than PP. In addition, they have a lower density and dielectric constant. The use of 50 vol.-% MHGK (33 wt.%) thus resulted in a reduction of 20% in thermal conductivity, 24% in density and 17% in dielectric constant.

However, the disadvantage of using MHGS was that, as a spherical filler, it reduced the mechanical properties of the matrix. The target approach was therefore to obtain a stable chemical bond between the two components by means of an adapted functionalization in order to counteract the mechanical losses. This could be achieved by a combination of using the adhesion promoter maleic anhydride-grafted polypropylene and silanizing the MHGS with an amino silane.

Plastic Composites, MHGS-PP Compound, Micro hollow glass spheres, Filler, Polypropylene, Plastics, Thermoplastic, Inorganic filler, Thermal Conductivity, Mechanical properties

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