Avient Announces Industry-First Carbon Negative and Carbon Neutral Thermoplastic Elastomers   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. 

Thermoplastics: Trilliant™ HC high performance formulations deliver excellent chemical resistance and durability for medical device enclosures and components. Overmolded thermoplastic elastomers: Versaflex™ HC solutions provide excellent chemical resistance to alcohol, bleach and peroxide based antiseptics, and bonds to chemically resistant substrate resins for superior adhesion and durability across a wide range of applications.

These comprise several new product launches, including statically dissipative and electrically conductive thermoplastic elastomers, additives designed to enhance the recycling of polyolefins, and engineered materials and performance additives that can help customers conform to proposals from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to restrict the use of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).   NEW Stat-Tech™ TPE Static Dissipative & Electrically Conductive Thermoplastic Elastomers – Formulated to offer electrical resistivity from 10⁰Ω to 10¹⁰Ω.

Food-Safe TPE: Versaflex™ thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) enables consumer products manufacturers to replace a thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) silicone material with a softer, child-friendly TPE material, while maintaining strict compliance with food contact regulations in Japan and China.

Thermoplastic structural composites give you greater design freedom. Thermoplastic structural composites give you greater design freedom.

Thermoplastic Elastomers | Healthcare , Soft Touch Soft-touch products: Soft TPEs overmolded onto rigid thermoplastic substrates reduce “muscle effort” for a given operation such as turning a dial, pressing a lever or pushing a button.

Thermoplastic Elastomers | Color & Design , Transportation Global supplier DENSO, for example, was designing parts for an HVAC system and asked Avient to find a replacement for thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) material that would eliminate the need to pre-dry.

Complēt™ Long Carbon Fiber Reinforced Structural Thermoplastics replaced metal and delivered excellent fatigue endurance and moisture resistance Versaflex™ HC Thermoplastic Elastomers provided a medical-grade TPE to help the customer meet necessary regulatory specifications and gain market share

Complēt™ Long Carbon Fiber Reinforced Structural Thermoplastics replaced metal and delivered excellent fatigue endurance and moisture resistance Versaflex™ HC Thermoplastic Elastomers provided a medical-grade TPE to help the customer meet necessary regulatory specifications and gain market share

Processing & Design Guide: Polystrand™ Thermoplastic Composites Recommendations & key considerations for processing and part design with continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastics