Industrial 3D printing requires plastic materials that, as printed components, ideally correspond to the performance level of injection-molded parts. This is key to finding applications for special ...

Passenger car front end carriers can now be designed exclusively of plastic, as illustrated by the new Skoda Octavia. The vehicle's front end carrier is made of Durethan DP BKV 60 H2.0 EF, a highly ...

Fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) are a composite material consisting of a polymer matrix carefully combined with a supporting material or fiber which serves to enhance the mechanical strength and ...

Fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP), also known as fiber-reinforced polymers, are a category of composite plastics specifically using fiber materials to mechanically augment the elasticity and strength of ...

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has expanded its portfolio of Durethan-brand, flame-retardant polyamide 6 compounds to include two new product grades that are highly reinforced with glass fibers.

Johns Manville will roll out a new family of anionically polymerized, glass fiber-reinforced polyamide 6 organosheet products this fall that achieve higher FVFs (left) and better impregnation (right).

“These certified values enable our customers to more accurately estimate the climate-friendliness of their products and identify ways of further reducing their CO 2 emissions,” says Guenter Margraf, ...

Polyamide-imides are engineering thermoplastics characterized by excellent dimensional stability, high strength at high temperature, and good impact resistance. Molded parts can maintain structural ...

BASF SE BASFY has mainly tested the durability of materials in air-heat environments, but is now adapting to proven methods of hydrolysis storage to ascertain ageing in water-glycol mixtures. As ...