Consider combining comfort with color and performance properties using enhanced soft touch GLS™ TPE materials for even better results. When overmolded, GLS TPEs bond permanently and virtually seamlessly to many different plastic substrates, including polypropylene (PP), polycarbonate (PC), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), PC/ABS, copolyester, polyamide (nylon) and polystyrene (PS). A few of the options you can add with GLS TPEs:

Consider combining comfort with color and performance properties using enhanced soft touch GLS™ TPE materials for even better results. When overmolded, GLS TPEs bond permanently and virtually seamlessly to many different plastic substrates, including polypropylene (PP), polycarbonate (PC), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), PC/ABS, copolyester, polyamide (nylon) and polystyrene (PS). A few of the options you can add with GLS TPEs:

Consider combining comfort with color and performance properties using enhanced soft touch GLS™ TPE materials for even better results. When overmolded, GLS TPEs bond permanently and virtually seamlessly to many different plastic substrates, including polypropylene (PP), polycarbonate (PC), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), PC/ABS, copolyester, polyamide (nylon) and polystyrene (PS). A few of the options you can add with GLS TPEs:

GLS TPEs are designed to help you stand out from your competitors with reduced appliance movement and noise GLS™ TPE Infant Care Solutions Guide - Product Selection Guide (English) GLS™ Versaflex™ PF - Technical Bulletin (Chinese)

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Regulatory compliance for aqueous, acidic, alcohol and fatty food applications are available with GLS thermoplastic elastomers. GLS and Kautex Machines, a leader in extrusion blow-molding equipment, jointly developed a solution for co-extruding an ultra-thin outer layer of translucent, customized Dynalloy™ TPE onto recycled or virgin HDPE resin.

The Avient team assessed the application’s technical and operational requirements, and recommended a GLS™ Versalloy™ alloy in 45 Shore A durometer, an FDA-compliant medical TPV grade designed for overmolding onto PP. Ultimately, the transition to the GLS TPV proved to be a smooth one for the manufacturer.

Drying is not typically required for GLS TPEs. As stated earlier, GLS TPEs are shear responsive. Most of the GLS soft TPEs are either water-clear or translucent.

GLS™ TPEs - Injection Molding Guide GLS™ TPEs - Overmolding Guide GLS™ Versaflex™ PF

GLS has focused its R&D efforts on the chemistry and technology of developing overmolding compounds to virtually any substrate. GLS 285-056 exhibits good aging properties at 70°C for at least one week. Table 2 demonstrates the outstanding adhesion values of GLS TPE onto Delrin and Hostaform.