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Nylon resins Zytel ® DMX modified nylon resins feature chemical resistance, high-temperature resistance, toughness, strength, low friction, low wear, and hydrolytic stability. Using the company's Advantage technology to provide melt-flow properties, the material allows engineers to design with thinner walls and longer, more complex flow paths than other plastics. These ......

The major thrust in new materials at K is engineering thermoplastics for automotive, appliance, medical, and electrical/electronic parts. There are plenty of new nylons, acetals, PBTs, and LCPs. There's also news in TPEs, including crosslinkable TPUs with properties closer to thermoset rubber. Also look for a brand-new, high-heat amorphous ......

The footprint of thermoplastic materials suppliers at this year's NPE is going to be fainter than usual. Big names in engineering materials absent this year include Dow, Eastman, Rhodia, Ferro, and Victrex. As for volume resin suppliers, the exhibitor list has shriveled to just Basell Polyolefins and Chevron Phillips. This ......

The DuPont organization has a long history of innovating and commercializing polymer products. The history' began 70 years ago, in 1928, when the company brought Wallace Carothers into its Wilmington Delaware labs to do fundamental research in areas of his choice. Carothers chose polymerization. The result was the elucidation of ......

ABATRON, INC. Epoxy pastes in custom-mixed colors. ADELL PLASTICS INC. Custom color concentrates in all thermo-plastics, especially engineering materials. Multifunctional concentrates containing more than one additive. ADVANCE COATINGS CO. Offers 9911 Dis-Res dispersions for polyester resins, PUR, and epoxies. AKROCHEM CORP. Concentrates, powders, and pastes for vinyls, cellulose butyrates, polyolefins, ......

COLORANTS PRODUCT LINES REVIEWED ABATRON, INC. Offers epoxy pastes in custom-mixed colors. ACCURATE COLOR, INC. Manufactures a line of colorants and multifunctional additive dispersions. Concentrates, liquids, dry colors, and dustless dry powders are available for most polymers. The dustless grades reportedly improve uniformity when used with automated metering equipment. Color ......

Volume Thermoplastics To Challenge Higher-Cost 'Engineering' Resins Much like engineering resins, developments in high-volume or "commodity" thermoplastics in the 1990s will hinge on new copolymer and alloy technologies. The results will be especially apparent in polyolefins. With new ways of making higher-performance, "engineering-level" grades, commodity thermoplastic producers say their materials ......