This enables customers to replace metal with plastic and take advantage of benefits like sustainability through lightweighting, design freedom, and easier processing.”   To exemplify the improved accuracy of FEA capabilities, Avient tested and analyzed the performance of an injection-molded automotive connector rod, a traditional metal component, using isotropic and anisotropic material mapping. Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint  

OnColor™ Brilliant Metallics - Product Bulletin (Chinese) Replacing Metal with Vinyl - Case Study Explore how replacing metal with vinyl materials can shine a light on value. 

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Collaborating with PolyOne enabled Akboru Elektrik to make a transition from metal to polymer that increased the expected useful lifetime of the lights by 200 percent, supporting the company’s goals to reduce part weight and improve manufacturing and logistics efficiency. PolyOne’s Therma-Tech thermally conductive materials provided Akboru Elektrik with the solution to oxidation problems on metal heat sinks. Photo Caption: Switching from metal to heat sinks molded with Therma-Tech thermally conductive polymers enabled Akboru Elektrik to increase the expected useful lifetime of pool lighting by 200%.

Design freedom, metal replacement and Thermally Conductive Formulations provide powerful solution for Elausa Electronics Offered a paint replacement solution with a molded-in-color metallic effect Optimized metallic effect in automotive bumper

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Starting with raw materials, we source only the best polymers, additives, modifiers, fillers, reinforcers, colorants and pigments. For example, leaders in the industry are collaborating with PolyOne to transition from metal to thermally conductive polymers. Non- heavy metal and non-halogen formulations are available.

Gravi-Tech REC recycled grades enable visual surface effects and aesthetics including metallic finish, cool touch and color variation, suitable for applications in packaging and consumer goods such as cosmetic caps and closures, perfume caps, spirit bottle caps and luxury boxes. High density polymer-metal composites are an ideal alternative to lead and other traditional metals

Gravi-Tech BIO bio-based grades enable visual surface effects and aesthetics including metallic finish, cool touch and color variation, suitable for applications in packaging and consumer goods such as cosmetic caps and closures, perfume caps, spirit bottle caps and luxury boxes. High density polymer-metal composites are an ideal alternative to lead and other traditional metals

Complēt and OnForce composites have structural characteristics that provide stiffness, strength, and toughness, making them ideal alternatives to metals. Using these composites as a metal replacement also fosters significant weight reductions along with the time and cost savings benefits of single-step injection molding.  Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint