We also invested to begin thermoplastic elastomer production in Brazil, another important regional market where we’ve identified opportunities to grow and serve customers. Thermoplastics offer versatility and a wide range of applications. Garratt worked for DuPont Dow Elastomers (a global manufacturer of engineered thermoset rubber and thermoplastic elastomer materials) in market development and product management positions, culminating in a regional commercial leadership role for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Special additives like peroxides, antioxidants, chain extenders, elastomers, colorants and performance modifiers can be added to rPET during processing to achieve these properties and remedy cross-contamination, discoloring or any other impurities.

Processors and converters of flexible thermoplastic film often do an excellent job of meeting the requirements for food protection and attractive marketing. Today, thanks to a development cooperation between a leading global supplier of additive and colorant masterbatches and a major producer of polyolefin thermoplastics, packaging film producers have the opportunity to select film- grade polypropylene for sealing layers that are highly transparent, can be efficiently processed and converted, and yield film that provides an excellent seal and yet still enables easy opening.

With PREPERM™ thermoplastics, you can easily produce complex and large high-precision parts that have tight tolerances in material characteristics

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Polystrand™ R continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites are made with a resin matrix of greater than 95% post-consumer recycled PET (rPET).

Now the benefits of thermoplastic materials are available also for the applications traditionally produced from ceramics or thermoset plastic materials

Traditionally, Carbon fiber tows were used in thermoset composite applications but are being incorporated into thermoplastics more and more.

Improve processability and reduce overall processing time – TPEs are easier to process than EPDM rubber and do not require drying like thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV), leading to a decrease in processing time and costs.

Artisan™ AR7300 PRE-COLORED FORMULATIONS PROCESSING GUIDE Artisan™ Pre-Colored Thermoplastics Artisan™ AR7300 pre-colored thermoplastics are customized ABS formulations to help manufacturers achieve brilliant and high-gloss metallic effect, excellent chemical resistance, and scratch resistance.