Akulon® PA6 delivers excellent surface appearance, paintability, and UV-resistance for exterior mirror housings. Its tough mechanical properties ensure durability and provide designers with an increased design freedom.
Akulon® Ultraflow® offers better surface appearance for engine covers and can avoid the need for painting when the molded part finish is proactively taken into account during the development phase (tool surface finish, injection gate and welding lines location studies).
Due to its semi-cristalline structure the Akulon® Ultraflow® exhibits an inherent chemical resistance which is needed due to the repeated under-the-hood fluids contact on these parts.
The Akulon® PA6 is an already proven economical solution on rocker valve covers.
Compared to most PA6.6, the Akulon® PA6 provides similar stiffness up to 185°C combined with higher toughness at low temperatures to avoid failures & cracks.
The Akulon® PA6 is also showing a good heat ageing resistance (part durability), and cometitive cycle times needed for castor wheels.
Akulon® PA6 provides good mechanical and color performance for CEE connectors. Processing in any injection molding equipment is smooth and without problems. All grades yield very good resistance against discoloration at high temperatures.
Akulon® PA6 allows phosphorus containing resins to be replaced with halogen free solutions, which are health and environment benefits. Akulon® PA6 also brings to the contactors market a greater color flexibility.
Halogen free Akulon® PA6 is the benchmark in MCB applications, especially for replacement of thermoset resins. For many years Akulon® PA6 has been the dominant material for power distribution housings because it is heat resistant, tough, easy processable and because it is available in cost effective halogen free versions.
The GM Integrated Air Cleaner/Resonator, used in the Pontiac Bonneville, Buick LeSabre and the Oldsmobile Delta 88, is molded from DSM's Akulon® K224-HGM35, a glass/mineral reinforced, heat stabilized nylon 6. Akulon® PA6 proved to be the right match in material performance, consistent quality, processability and cost for this demanding under-the-hood application.
Two Akulon® PA6 supertough grades have proven to be a good choice as the materials fulfill all requirements for airbag containers: Akulon® K224-PG8 and Akulon® K224-PG6. They are formulated to have the best low temperature impact performance, so avoiding brittle failures, while retaining more than enough strength to perform at the higher temperature conditions.
When compared to metals, Akulon® PA6 offers the possibility of lower system costs through part and function integration, easier assembly and longer tool life for air inlet manifolds. Akulon® PA6 offers a higher burst pressure resistance and gives more economical solutions than PA66.
For many years polyamide 6 resins have been the dominant materials for power tool housings because it is heat resistant, tough and easy processable. The surface quality of glass fibre reinforced materials is however known to be quite critical in this kind of applications.
