https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/consider-adding-soft-touch-grips-competitive-edge
Specific TPE colors or textures can serve as a strategic branding tool and can replace expensive secondary painting or adhesion operations to achieve a similar look.
https://www.avient.com/news/polyone-reimagines-packaging-soft-touch-sustainability-tpes
Because GLS TPEs can be used and overmolded onto a wide range of substrates without the use of adhesives, they also offer greater design freedom.
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/overmolding-solutions?rtype[]=1164
There are a variety of Avient TPEs designed to have excellent adhesion to a number of rigid plastic substrates for overmolding.
https://www.avient.com/news/featured-ibex-hammerhead-marine-composite-panels-avient-remove-weight-streamline-production
This configuration provides unique characteristics such as strong adhesive properties that allow for improved bonding to various structural materials, as well as to coatings and surface films for increased design flexibility compared to traditional boat building and assembly methods.
https://www.avient.com/news/ibex-2023-avient-featuring-innovative-materials-boatbuilders-offering-lightweighting-and-production-efficiency
This configuration provides unique characteristics, such as strong adhesive properties that can improve bonding to various structural materials and to coatings and surface films for increased design flexibility compared to traditional boat building and assembly methods.
https://www.avient.com/news/avient-unveils-new-cesa-withstand-antimicrobial-additives-tpu-film-medical-and-outdoor-applications
As TPU film is widely used as a waterproof or adhesive product layer in outdoor, medical, aviation, marine, and industrial markets, our new grades of Cesa Withstand antimicrobial additives can help limit microbial growth, which can lead to odor, staining, discoloration, or loss of mechanical properties in these applications.”
https://www.avient.com/products/polymer-colorants/color-additive-combination-masterbatches/smartbatch-fx-paint-replacement-0
Can offer scratch resistance, anti-dust adhesion and UV resistance
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/overmolding-solutions
There are a variety of Avient TPEs designed to have excellent adhesion to a number of rigid plastic substrates for overmolding.
https://www.avient.com/news/demanding-applications-new-polyone-tpe-nylon-grips-improves-oil-and-abrasion-resistance
Using two-shot or insert molding, the material bonds tightly without adhesives to most standard nylons, as well as heat-stabilized, lubricated, glass-filled and impact-modified versions.
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/consider-adding-soft-touch-grips-competitive-edge?rtype[]=1164
Specific TPE colors or textures can serve as a strategic branding tool and can replace expensive secondary painting or adhesion operations to achieve a similar look.