The Kautex Maschinenbau company, a renowned maker of blow-molding systems, has produced, on a high-performance extrusion blow-molding machine, intricately shaped bottles using the Styrolux®3G 46, a styrene butadiene copolymer. This plastic was launched by BASF as a blow-molding brand in early 2008.
In the automotive industry, manufacturers are focusing on using lighter and aesthetic materials to fulfill their design requirements without sacrificing top quality.
Clarified PP stands out as an excellent cost effective alternative to other transparent (generally amorphous) polymers and glass. It allows the packaging and medical industries to develop new concepts with a unique combination of properties
In the Packaging Market, Shrink sleeves can give beverage bottles and dairy products as well as household articles, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals an attractive design thus making them appeal to the senses and enhancing their selling power.
Fuel consumption reduction push automotive manufacturers to develop lighter and more compact systems driving the replacement of traditional materials such as metal or glass by thermoplastic materials
Consumers particularly value the low weight, transparency, fracture-resistance and handy square-shape of the bottle. The environment ultimately benefits too, since Makrolon® bottles can be filled more than 50 times in the returnable system
To produce these glasses, jugs and bowls of a modern design in transparent plastic is a considerable technical achievement. The wall thickness of these parts ranges from 1.5 to 20 mm (with thick walls at the base of the glasses and very thin walls around the rim)
The heat resistance of Apec is above that of standard Makrolon® and extends up to 220°C (Vicat B). These special products display a considerably improved flowability compared with standard grades, for no significant change in mechanical properties
Thanks to its superior heat resistance and excellent toughness, High heat polycarbonate stands out as the perfect material. The superheated steam sterilization process can be repeated up to 10 times with the scalpels and the boxes being sterilized together
The transparent reusable filter has to be cleaned and sterilised after use. One of the key advantages is that Apec® is suitable for hot steam sterilisation in autoclaves at 134 °C, which is the preferred form of rapid sterilisation. Gamma ray and hot air sterilisation are also feasible with Apec®.
Thanks to its excellent toughness and ductility, the break-proof packaging withstood 2000 opening/closing cycles during tests without any problems
In medical equipments such as incubators, high level of safety and reliability in order to avoid risks is a decisive criterion in the selection of a plastic.
Used with polypropylene, certain pigments are known to cause warpage issues due to anisotropic shrinkage properties. As a result, processing conditions must be adjusted to each one to produce identical parts containing differents pigments.
Lighting systems are taking on an increasingly important role in automotive styling, and the redesigned front end of the Sport version of DaimlerChrysler Corporations 1999 Dodge Ram pickup truck is no exception...
The Kautex Maschinenbau company, a renowned maker of blow-molding systems, has produced, on a high-performance extrusion blow-molding machine, intricately shaped bottles using the Styrolux®3G 46, a styrene butadiene copolymer. This plastic was launched by BASF as a blow-molding brand in early 2008.
In flying-stone tests, visors in Makrolon withstand the impact of steel balls travelling at 420 km/h without suffering any damage.
In sports and leisure markets such as ski and snowboard manufacturing, appearance and design are key drivers for sales. Thus the top layer material must be easy to color and decorate...
In order to improve product reliability, many office equipment manufacturer try to develop new products with simpler design and with a reduced number of parts. This generally leads to more sophisticated parts and systems usually difficult or costly to acheive with traditional materials such as metal.
The CORx compact heart-lung system is expected to have a considerable impact on cardiac surgery. The new device offers significant advantages over conventional cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) systems...
To produce infusion sets satisfying the most stringent requirements, Makrolon® is the perfect material to use.
