- 20 Thermoplastic elastomers.
The invention of materials that process like thermoplastics but imitate the properties and feel of crosslinked rubbers began in 1958-59 with the commercial introduction of thermoplastic polyurethane and styrenic block copolymers (SBCs). The attraction of simpler and faster processing plus the ability to reprocess scrap gained these materials a permanent ......
- Resin prices headed up, up, up.
Be prepared for rising prices of nearly everything in coming months. Several factors are combining to create what resin buyers will probably find to be unstoppable upward pricing momentum. One is rapidly escalating costs of basic feedstocks - ethylene, propylene, and styrene monomer - fed by supply snugness that will ......
- Buyers' guide to
thermoplastics.
Buyers' Guide To Thermoplastics Materials Buyers' Guide ABX (ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE) BLOW MOLDING Trade Name Features Manufacturer and/or Grade Applications Bayer Polymers Lustran 765 HI,NAT Diamond Polymers 7600B HI 7600B/ELG LGL,HI 7602B HI GE Plastics Cycolac MSC GP,HI,NAT,MLS Cycolac MSL GP,LTI,MLS,AUT Kaneka Texas Kaneka MUH BM5630 AUT LG Chemical BM-662 HR BLOW ......
- First technical details on some next-generation
polyolefins.
A new palette of ethylene copolymers made by a patented "constrained-geometry" metallocene catalyst system is being produced in developmental quantities by Dow Plastics in Freeport, Texas. Described in Dow's 58-page patent as pseudo-random ethylene/styrene copolymers with up to 50% styrene content, the new materials are the first such copolymers of ......
- Move over rubber! Today's TPEs have more to
give.
Softer, stiffer, clearer, more paintable, easier flowing, and more heat-resistant - the latest generations of thermoplastic elastomers won't take a back seat to cured rubber. Though no longer the new kid in town, thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) remain one of the fastest-growing plastic material categories - in terms of total poundage ......
- SBC Supplier Doubles Its Capacity.
Kraton Polymers in Houston has doubled its capacity for producing Kraton D-1401P, a clear styrene-butadiene copolymer (SBC) typically used as a blending agent in crystal PS and styrenic-based alloys. The expansion comes from debottlenecking a production unit at Belpre, Ohio, and is intended to meet burgeoning needs for clear SBCs....
- Materials. (Classified Directory)
(S-O).
SYNDIOTACTIC POLYSTYRENE (SPS) LNP Engineering Plastics Inc., PA RTP Co., MN THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS Olefinic Type Acrymax Technology Inc., PA Advanced Compounding, Div. of Blessings Corp., CT * Advanced Elastomer Systems, OH * Advanced Polymer Alloys, DE AIN Plastics, Inc., A subsidiary of Thyssen NA., NY (D) Alliance Alloys LLC, MA ......