https://www.avient.com/resource-center?document_subtype=0&document_type=59&form_id=resource_filter_form&industry=0&op=FILTER RESULTS&product_family=0&product_name=0&page=35
Key properties, rheology and property retention and performance data for reSound™ TPEs derived from plant-based sugar for overmolding onto PP and ABS
https://www.avient.com/resource-center?document_type=59&document_subtype=0&industry=0&product_family=0&product_name=0&op=FILTER RESULTS&form_id=resource_filter_form&page=35
Key properties, rheology and property retention and performance data for reSound™ TPEs derived from plant-based sugar for overmolding onto PP and ABS
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/using-post-consumer-recycled-content-plastic-packaging-closures?sust[]=1133
There is also a shift from polypropylene (PP) to high-density polyethylene (HDPE) closures, where post-consumer resin is more readily available.
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/hit-comfort-zone-soft-touch-grips?ind[]=6596
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).
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/exploring-world-fluoropolymers?ind[]=21509
2 Sina Ebnesajjad, “Introduction to Fluoropolymers,” Applied Plastics Engineering Handbook (Elsevier, 2011) pp 49-60.
https://www.avient.com/industries/transportation/trucking/trucking-interiors
Compounded PP
https://www.avient.com/news/avient-exhibits-new-bio-filled-polymers-and-sustainable-solutions-portfolio-fakuma-2021
Based on polymers such as polypropylene (PP), the new formulations also include a natural filler made from renewable plant sources that would otherwise go to waste.
https://www.avient.com/news/new-non-pfas-mold-release-additive-avient-high-temperature-polymers-help-enhance-manufacturing-efficiency
Evoluscend™ additive is effective across a range of high-temperature polymers, including PPSU, PES, PSU, PEI, LCP, PPS, and PEEK.
https://www.avient.com/news/avient-unveil-new-specialized-and-sustainable-solutions-fakuma-2023
It helps bring incompatible polymers, such as PP and PE, together by forming them into a homogenous polymer mixture that increases mechanical properties based on polymer modification (link to full press release above).
https://www.avient.com/news/polyone-accentuates-what’s-possible-application-specific-materials-and-design-npe-2018
COMPTEK™ High Temperature Formulations: Eighteen months ago, PolyOne acquired COMPTEK (Diez, Germany), a specialist in formulations based on extreme-heat polymeric materials such as PEEK, PES, PEI, PPS, PSU and PPSU.