Nowadays, wearing comfort and minimum weight coupled with high strength, toughness, and durability are some of the most important requirements for sports and leisure articles – regardless of whether winter sports or racing bicycle, smart watches or drones. Novel polyamide formulations permit the design of lightweight and efficient sports and leisure equipment. 

Low Density and Outstanding Mechanical Properties but without Fiber Reinforcement 

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Thermoplaste

Polyamide

Compound

High Performance without High Weight 

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 

Hochleistungskunststoffe

Additive

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Down to the Smallest Detail 

Borealis and Borouge announce the introduction of the new lightweight grades Fibremod WE380HP and Daplen EE058AI engineered to enable the automotive industry to achieve greater cost efficiency, higher performance and improved sustainability in vehicle components. 

Solutions for the Global Automotive Industry 

Polypropylen

New Lightweight Grades Fibremod and Daplen 

The better a thermoplastic flows, the wider is its processing window. A product innovation for easy-flowing materials is presented by Lanxess Deutschland GmbH, Cologne, Germany, with Durethan BKV 30 XF, a polyamide 6 (PA6) with 30 % glass fiber content. It is over 17 % more easy-flowing than its predecessor and 62 % more easy-flowing than the standard material (Fig. 3). For approximately just as good mechanical properties, it is also claimed to achieve high-quality surfaces. There are also new developments in PA6 compounds that are reinforced with 30 % of a mixture of glass fibers and glass microspheres. Durethan BG 30 X XF, BG 30 X H2.0 XF and BG 30 X H3.0 XF, besides high flowability, also show an extremely low tendency to warp. According to the manufacturer, for a good mechanical property profile, the flowability is over 30 % higher than for a standard PA6. The target market of the thermally stabilized H3.0 grades, with a very low copper and halide content, are components for the electronics industry like plugs, connectors and fuse boxes. The H2.0 grade is specially targeted at component applications that are black pigmented and high thermally loaded. 

Lanxess 

Fluently to Success 

Thermosets offer high mechanical performance and, thanks to their low initial viscosity, permit the efficient series manufacture of composite parts by resin transfer molding. The main advantage of thermoplastics is that they can be thermoformed, welded and recycled. These advantages are now combined in a newly developed thermoplastic acrylic resin system, which offers new possibilities for the production of fiber-reinforced composites with short cycle times. 

Thermoformable Acrylic Resin Systems for Large-Scale Production  

Harze

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Combining the Best of Two  Polymer Worlds 

A low-warpage, flame-retardant PBT-ASA material has been developed for the housings of a battery management unit and two cell monitoring units. Both assemblies have recently been used in the lithium-ion battery systems of a small compact car. The material has low warpage and is flame-retardant. It also offers high chemical resistance, low emissions, and high toughness and stiffness. 

PBT Blend Developed for Battery System Components in Mass-Produced Electric Vehicles 

Steckverbinder

Gehäuse aus Kunststoff

Energiemanagement / Ladetechnik

Flammschutzmittel

New Plastic Housing Material for e-Power Units under the Hood  

TER HELL PLASTIC GMBH, one of the leading distribution and compounding companies for plastics raw materials in Germany, Europe and China. It is an important partner of well-known, global plastics manufacturers such as Azoty Tarnow, Chevron Phillips, Clariant, DSM, Evonik, Franplast, Momentive, Lucobit, Polimeri, Sabic, Samsung, Teknor Apex and Total Petrochemicals.

Ter Hell Plastic GmbH  

https://www.terhell.de

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Styrol-Copolymerisate

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Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

geba Kunststoffcompounds GmbH  

https://www.geba.eu

Biokunststoffe

Compoundeure

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Pigmente

Polyacetale

Polyacrylate

Polycarbonat

Polyester

The Elastoflex E polyurethane (PU) foam system from BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, supports mass-production of an exterior car component featuring a honeycomb sandwich technology with a Class A film. The roof module in the standard model of the new Smart Fortwo from Daimler AG, Stuttgart, Germany, consists of a paper honeycomb and two surrounding glass fiber mats, which in an impregnation process are sprayed with the low-density, heat-activatable Elastoflex E 3532 polyurethane foam system and pressed together with a solid-colored Class A film. A single operation thus produces a roof module that is claimed to be 30 % lighter than the standard roof on the predecessor model – but retains the same strength and flexural rigidity. The lightweight roof was developed by F. S. Fehrer Automotive GmbH, Kitzingen, Germany, which manufactures it at its plant in Großlangheim, Germany. 

PU Foam System Can also Be Used Outdoors  

Polyurethan

Honeycomb on the Car Roof 

The Grafe Design Center has composed music to present the nuances of their colors for the coming season in an interplay of symphonic harmony. Strong contrasts characterize their colors for 2017. Natural variations of blue and green complement seemingly synthetic tones of red and pink, as well as extremely black black. 

Grafe Presents this Year’s Color Collection Audiovisually 

Farbstoffe

Masterbatches

Symphony of Colors 

Ter Plastics Polymer Group recently held its 5th Polymer Forum, which is increasingly evolving into an industry gathering. For the first time, the forum featured parallel sessions on high-performance polymers in the context of current and challenging applications. The focus was on new developments and trends in polyphthalamide (PPA), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) and polyamide (PA) 66. 

Advanced Structural and Thermal Applications at the Heart of the Polymer Forum 

Polymer Molecules Get Smart 

Energy efficient, inexpensive LEDs are inspiring designers and engineers to develop new esthetic and functional applications of light. Since this cannot be done without plastics, Albis Plastic invited interested appliers in the supplier and automotive industry to an exchange of ideas regarding new compounds and advanced applications. 

Lighting Design for Automobile Interiors at the First Albis Automotive Lounge 

Lichtvorhänge

Oberflächentechnik

Recht allgemein / sonst.

Illuminated Feel-Good Ambience 

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? 

UV- and weathering-resistant components with a high-quality surface straight from the machine without post-finishing are in demand for automotive exterior applications. This combination of properties is only possible with targeted compound developments, as the example of a radiator grill demonstrates. 

Polypropylene Replaces Acrylonitrile-Styrene-Acrylic Ester and UV-Resistant Paint for Exterior Applications 

Like Modern Ship Figureheads 

Transparent plastics are used in medical technology for disposable articles such as catheter accessories, blood/plasma separators, thorax drainage sets, and medical filter and device housings. Since they are being exposed to increasingly aggressive solvents, disinfectants and drugs (for example new cancer drugs), these plastic articles have to be comprehensively tested for their chemical resistance. 

Chemical and Environmental Stress-Crack Resistance of PMMA-Based Compounds in the Medical Environment 

Medizintechnik

Maintaining Clarity Long-Term 

MCAM about its KyronMAX Structural Thermoplastic Compounds

The company presents new formulas of structural thermoplastic materials reaching 414 MPa tensile strength.

Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (MCAM), Mesa, AZ/USA, expanded the product line of its KyronMAX structural thermoplastic materials with new resin formulations to meet the requirements of applications in the medical, oil & gas, aerospace, automotive, and recreation market segments.

The KyronMAX line is based around structural compounds which, according to the company, are the strongest compounds for the injection molding process in the world. These compounds can be used to replace steel in a structural component. The new materials are able to reach 414 MPa (60,000 psi) tensile strength.

Metal replacement, particularly in automotive components, has become a part of OEMs lightweighting and sustainability programs, Dave Wilkinson, Technology Director for MCAM, says. “We’ve done studies on the savings of using KyronMAX compounds to replace metal. When you start taking weight out of the material you get a massive CO2 reduction because you don’t need as much fuel to power the vehicle.” Additionally, KyronMAX technology enables very complex parts to be injection molded and retain the strength and mechanical performance of metal.

A bracket made of the new structural thermoplastic compounds

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Produkt Mitsubishi 1.3.2021

Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (MCAM)

With more than 80 years of experience, 30 branch offices in 20 countries, and a team of technical service experts, engineers, and application development managers, Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials is the global, vertically integrated leader for researching, developing, and manufacturing of high-performance materials.

For more information visit: <a href="https://www.mcam.com/" target="_blank">www.mcam.com.</a>

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