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Avient’s TPE solutions help you add tactile elements that engage consumers. TPEs can also differentiate your packaging by aiding consumers with more accurate dispensing and product application. Our soft touch TPEs help you deliver applicators that are soft on skin and lashes to help consumers deliver your product more precisely.

This includes offering lower-carbon alternatives to thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) without sacrificing performance, expanding our portfolios to include the use of bio-renewable feedstock and post-industrial or post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, and introducing new materials and services focused on meeting specific customer needs while helping to advance a circular economy.  reSound™ Ultra-Low Carbon Footprint TPEs: These TPE formulations offer an industry-first cradle-to-gate negative, neutral, or near-zero product carbon footprint (PCF) while delivering comparable performance to traditional TPEs. 

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Versaflex™ TPE Formulation provided chemical resistance and bonding for EV charging gun grip reSound™ REC Recycled Content TPEs - Sustainable TPEs for automotive interiors Overview of the reSound™ REC TPEs 7310 series -- formulated specifically for automotive interior applications

TPEs vs. Explore the differences between TPEs and silicone for medical devices! Versaflex™ HC TPEs  offer performance, patient comfort, and sustainability. 

Avient Extends Recycled TPE Portfolio with Grades Containing up to 60% Recycled Content, Supporting Global Customers  NEW reSound™ REC GP 7820 TPEs: new grades containing up to 60% recycled content from either PCR streams or a combination of PCR and post-industrial recycled (PIR) raw materials, offering a reduced product carbon footprint (PCF) compared to virgin TPEs. RECENTLY LAUNCHED reSound™ REC AF 7210 TPEs: specifically developed for automotive interior applications, these new TPE grades from Avient contain 51-59% recycled content, with a minimum of 37% of that content from PCR sources, including closed-loop feedstock.

GLS soft TPEs can be overmolded onto rigid plastic, metal, or other substrates using a variety of techniques, including: Clean TPE regrind may be used at levels up to 20%. The adhesion of GLS soft overmolding TPEs to a substrate may be affected by:

The Good Duck is marketed as PVC free, phthalate free and BHA free, and also features two PolyOne technologies: customized GLS™ TPE materials and OnColor™ colorants.  PolyOne developed an ultra-soft version of its GLS™ TPE (thermoplastic elastomer) approved for food contact and medical applications, and included non-toxic PolyOne colorants.  The Good Duck™ is blow-molded from an ultra-soft TPE and uses non-toxic molded-in colorants from PolyOne.

CLEVELAND – November 5, 2018 – PolyOne today announced that its specialty vibration damping Versaflex™ VDT TPEs are being selected by major appliance manufacturers as a valuable solution to vibration issues in top load washing machines. In an experiment completed by this customers’ design team, switching to Versaflex VDT TPE reduced vibration of the appliance by 80 percent versus TPV,” said Michelle Hearn, global marketing director, Specialty Engineered Materials at PolyOne. To help customers learn more about using Versaflex VDT TPE materials to mitigate vibration, PolyOne recently published this Smart Materials™ Vibration and Sound eBook.