PVC stands out for its great versatility, but users’ requirements are also rising. It is therefore increasingly important to carefully select, develop and match all the formulation components. With its voluntary commitment, VinylPlus, PVC has gained a good reputation as the pioneer of a circular economy in the plastics field. 

Advanced and Sustainable Properties for the Construction, Automotive and Consumer Goods Industry 

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Polyvinylchlorid

Folientechnik (IMD, IML, FIM, u.a.)

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) 

Vorspann: Kennen Sie in Illustrator schon die Warichu-Einstellungen? Warichu ist eine traditionelle Darstellung in der japanischen Typografie, bei der Kommentare in kleinerer Schrift und auf zwei Zeilen verteilt, in den Text eingefügt wird. Bei uns kennt man die doppelstöckigen Textelemente von Filmplakaten, wo die dem Namen vorangestellten Funktionsbezeichnungen auf zwei Zeilen verteilt werden. 

Plastics Manufacturers in Germany Are Well Prepared for Competition 

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Success through Technical Progress 

Major trends in the leading fields of application are driving sales of PA6 and 66 – for instance industry 4.0 in the electrical/electronics segment, or e-mobility and lightweight design in automobile manufacturing. China is able to supply itself in the meantime with both plastics as well as important preliminary products such as caprolactam. Capacities for base resins and compounds are increasingly being expanded in the country. Ongoing high prices for PA66 compounds are leading to substitution with PA6 in many applications.  

Improved Material Properties Pave the Way to New Fields of Application  

Polyamide

Polyamide 6 and 66 (PA6 and PA66) 

Polyolefin is versatile in application and exhibits a consistently high growth rate. The increasingly better understanding of the relationship between the structure and characteristics leads to new formulations. The essential sales markets continue to be the automobile industry, especially for PP reinforced with glass and carbon fibers, and packaging where the quality and recycling of PP are the dominating topics. 

News and Trends from the Reactor to the Recycled Material 

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Polypropylen

Verpackungsmaterial

Polypropylene (PP) 

The industry is predicting good times ahead. New lightweight design products are being created by means of hybrid material technologies and creative automation solutions. Inexpensive SMC, in high-grade variants, is becoming interesting for large series. 

Fiber-Reinforced Plastics Are Shaping the Future of Mobility, Energy Supply  and Infrastructure 

Duroplaste

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Glasfasern / -matten

Kohlenstofffasern / -matten

Faserverarbeitung

Fasern

Reactive Systems and FRP 

At the beginning of May, Jürgen Becky took over the helm of BASF’s European plastics business. He is steering the ship in the direction of polyamides, 3D printing, and digitalization. In the interview, he explains why BASF is not just a material supplier, why business could not be going better, and why the company will not get everything it would have liked from Solvay. 

Interview with Jürgen Becky on Goals, Markets, and Trends for BASF Plastics 

Industrie 4.0

Additive Fertigung

"Service Requires Trust" 

Good fire resistance is important in technically demanding applications. However, the use of suitable additives reduces the mechanical properties of a material, e. g. impact resistance and tensile strength. It can now be shown that this effect can be counteracted by means of regenerated cellulose fibers. 

PBT Compounds Modified with Natural Fiber Reinforcement as Flame Retardant 

Gehäuse aus Kunststoff

Elektronik

HV-Anwendungen / Hybridisierung / Elektrifizierung

Celluloseester, -ether

Flammschutzmittel

Naturally Non-Flammable 

This March, far more than a thousand plastics processors, suppliers, and car makers will meet once again in Mannheim, Germany. Next to motor show, exhibitions, and lecture program, networking is tops at the PIAE conference. In this interview, new PIAE conference leader Thomas Drescher explains why this traditional meeting has been renamed, reveals this year’s highlights, and reports on group research at the Volkswagen AG. 

Interview with New PIAE Conference Leader, Thomas Drescher from Volkswagen  Group Research 

Elektromobilität

"You Have to Have Gasoline in Your Veins" 

Grilamid TR 50 is the latest addition to Ems-Grivory¿s amorphous polyamide product range. The new material combines properties such as high stiffness, optical quality, and chemical resistance with high ductility and toughness.  

Material for Applications in Cell Phones, Cars, Toys, and Beverage Bottles 

Transparent and Safe 

Plastic compounds are becoming increasingly specialized and have to offer more and more functions simultaneously. Not only are the requirements regarding to technical characteristics getting stricter. Sustainability is steadily coming into focus as well, with bio-based or recycled material versions. 

Pushing Material Properties to the Limit, Combining Materials, and  Finding Alternative Raw Materials 

Thermoplaste

Hochleistungskunststoffe

Compound

Additive

Down to the Smallest Detail 

Sophisticated property profiles and additives that are tricky to handle make it difficult for raw-material producers to perform compounding themselves. A possible way around this is offered by partner companies for toll, contract, or licensed manufacturing. The provider, PolyComp, shows what raw material producers need to consider and what they should be prepared for. 

Different Contract Compounding Models and Services 

Compoundieren

Lohnfertigung

Produce In-House or Buy in? 

The Grafe Design Center of Grafe Advanced Polymers GmbH, Blankenhain, Germany, has devised very special shades for plastic products. The masterbatch series "Mermaid Effect" makes for eye-catching color changing effects – also known as interference effects. The special shades create a color contrast, which allows the viewer depending on the viewing angle and light incidence a changing optical impression. 

Interference Color Effects for Plastics 

Farbstoffe

Masterbatches

Like Shimmering Mermaids

 

For the cockpit windows and the two wheelhouse protective bubbles of the trimaran "Arkema Multi 50" Altuglas ShieldUp polymer was used. 

Cockpit Windows Made of Altuglas ShieldUp Polymer 

Oberflächentechnik

Kunststoffe

Withstands Wind and Waves 

It is difficult to use bioplastics in engineering parts due to a lack of processing data. However, these data are very important for making a change from conventional to bio-based plastics. They are essential for simulating process parameters and designing injection molds for economical processing. 

Injection Molding Simulation Puts Bioplastics on the Road to Industrial Mass Production 

Spritzgießsimulation

Prozesssimulation

Biokunststoffe

Digital Preview of Bio-Based Parts 

The French company Hexaflex, Bernay, has developed a patented padding technology based on hexagonal-pyramidal shapes molded with TPE. The thermoplastic elastomer compound from Kraiburg TPE GmbH & Co. KG, Waldkraiburg, Germany, provides the flexibility, light weight and full articulation characteristics of the modular system that lends itself to many shock and vibration absorbing applications. 

Padding Using Flexible Thermoplastic Elastomer Compound  

Breathable Body Protectors from Kraiburg TPE 

Borealis with New Vice President Innovation & Technology 

Borealis announces the appointment of Erik van Praet as Vice President Innovation & Technology effective 1 April 2020. Erik van Praet succeeds Maurits van Tol 

Borealis announces the appointment of Erik van Praet as Vice President Innovation & Technology effective 1 April 2020. Erik van Praet succeeds Maurits van Tol, who decided to pursue his career outside of Borealis in October 2019.
Erik started his career with Borealis in 1995 as development engineer in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, followed by various research manager positions in Porvoo, Finland; Stenungsund, Sweden; and the positions of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) manager and technology commercialisation manager in Mechelen, Belgium. Prior to joining Borealis, Erik worked at Desotec, a company specialised in air and water purification. 

Most recently, Erik has held the position of Director Strategy and Portfolio for over a decade, first in Linz, Austria and then in Beringen, Belgium. 

Erik van Praet holds a PhD in Quantum Chemistry and a Master degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is a board member of both the Dutch Polymer Institute and Borealis Technology Oy.
Erik is a Belgian citizen, is married and has four children. 

Borealis AG  

https://www.borealisgroup.com

10892389 News Beitrag [Online] - Borealis, Erik van Praet

Erik van Praet, new Vice President Innovation & Technology (© Borealis) 

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