TPE Knowledge Base Home // Overmolding: TPE Selection Recommended TPEs

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Glasforms Composite Profiles Explore what's possible with Glasforms composite profiles, from sizing options to target applications. Solutions for co-extruded protective film, PET photovoltaic backsheet and PETG sleeves.

Glasforms Composite Profiles Explore what's possible with Glasforms composite profiles, from sizing options to target applications. Solutions for co-extruded protective film, PET photovoltaic backsheet and PETG sleeves.

Offering good flow properties and faster cycle times, the Dynalloy portfolio can be easily colored for use in a variety of applications, whether extruded, injection molded or extrusion blow molded. Selecting the Right TPE TPEs vs.

From everyday joggers to high-profile athletes, runners have come to rely on the company’s devotion to creating innovative shoes. The Brooks design team members turned to Avient for help developing a solution that would work seamlessly with Brooks’ proprietary TPE blend used in the shoe's midsoles.  Working together, teams from both companies created a customized TPE material that matched the performance of the Brooks TPE blend.

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TPEs vs. TPEs for Healthcare Extrudable thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) that possess high temperature resistance

Using a variety of metallic fibers and particles, these compounds have densities similar to traditional metals, while offering design and processing flexibility because of the polymer matrix, which can be extruded, molded, calendered, or thermoformed into the final desired shape. KEY CHARACTERISTICS The primary features and benefits of Gravi-Tech formulations are: • Customized density, offering a wide range of specific gravities from 1.2 to 11 gm/cm3 • Broad modulus range, from very flexible to very rigid grades • Corrosion resistance, withstanding oxidation for long-term use and benefit • Chemical resistance, withstanding fuels, oils and other harsh chemicals • Metallization and electroplating, delivering the look and feel of metal Additional features include: • Design flexibility and processing ease • Good impact strength • Elevated heat deflection temperature PRODUCT BULLETIN TARGET MARKET AND APPLICATIONS Gravi-Tech composites are an excellent choice for applications in a full range of markets, including: Consumer Luxury packaging, golf clubs, fishing tackle, casino/gaming chips, exercise weights, hunting supplies, cutlery, appliances and hunting ammunition Healthcare X-ray shielding, nuclear medicine transport containers, and laboratory furniture and equipment Industrial Ammunition, reactor shielding, vibration and acoustical damping, military/tactical equipment, airport x-ray shielding, various food ware, building and construction equipment, inertial weighting, and underwater cable weighting Base Resin Specific Gravities Nylon 6 2.3, 2.7, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 6 TPE 2.6, 3.9 TPU 2.6, 3, 4.5, 7.5, 9 PP 1.15–4 ABS 1.2–3 PPS 4 Nylon 12 4, 6.9, 11 TECHNICAL PROPERTIES Copyright © 2024, Avient Corporation.