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If a matte finish similar to that of a thermoset rubber is required, a rougher mold texture should be used (or Versalloy TPV alloys, which naturally produce a matte surface). As a result, the anisotropic nature of the styrenic TPE needs to be taken into consideration when determining the gate location on the part. For maximum flexibility, the design should be naturally or geometrically balanced.

Across dozens of industries and in a countless number of applications, product designers and manufacturers have turned to thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) and liquid silicone rubber (LSR) to replace natural rubber. When considering sustainable content TPEs, recycled content formulations have more limitations based on the comingled nature of recycled raw materials. For these reasons alone, LSR is often the natural choice for everything from medical instruments to FDA Class III and USP Class VI implant products, including catheters, gastric feeding tubes, heart valves and stents.

Senior management believes these measures are useful to investors because they allow for comparison to PolyOne's performance in prior periods without the effect of items that, by their nature, tend to obscure PolyOne's operating results due to the potential variability across periods based on timing, frequency and magnitude.