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Home // Resources // Knowledge Base // Transform Product Development with FEA Many metals can approximate linear elastic behavior, but polymer behavior is not so easily simplified to one modulus, making it more challenging to predict performance based on a data sheet.

Home // Resources // Knowledge Base // Smart Alternative Yields Savings, Efficiency for Mars Otomotiv Since its founding in 2004, the Istanbul, Turkey-based maker of lighting for the global auto and transportation industries had built a good part of its thriving business around LED products.

Tested to ASTM D6866, they aim to reduce screen printers’ reliance on fossil fuel-based inks. Wilflex Revive inks are currently offered in a base and white and are compatible with the Wilflex Epic PC Express Color Mixing System.

POMMERLOCH, Luxembourg – March 21, 2024 – Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable materials solutions and services, today announced the introduction of new Gravi-Tech™ Density Modified Formulation grades with low shrinkage, offering luxury packaging customers an alternative to acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) based materials.   To enable customers to use their existing ABS molds, Avient has developed new PP-based grades with comparable shrinkage to traditionally used ABS materials.

Home // Resources // Knowledge Base // Quality by Design Declarations based on pre-testing of the ingredients we use to standards typically required for medical and diagnostic devices (biological evaluations ISO10993, USP , for class VI devices); and for pharmaceutical packaging and drug-contacting materials (biological evaluation USP, EP chapter and requirements USP and ICHQ3D extractable metals).

Home // Resources // Knowledge Base // Tier 1 Auto Supplier Saves with Supply Chain Expansion Based on its location under the hood, the material needed to provide a heat deflection temperature (HDT) rating of 68°C HDT at a load of 264 psi.

Home // Resources // Knowledge Base // Automaker Finds Savings, Appeal in New Colorant Plus Additive Further savings came from improved operational efficiency, based on the high consistency and stability offered by the new color and additive concentrate.

Home // Resources // Knowledge Base // Sealing in Medical Device Savings The manufacturer needed an overhaul for the part – from a completely new base material to a more efficient manufacturing process.

Home // Resources // Knowledge Base // Comparing Sustainable TPEs to Traditional Alternatives Adding to the complexity of the decision, TPEs on the market now incorporate recycled and bio-based content.