Sabic - PE, PET, PS, PVC - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)

Plastics Technology, 2008-04-25, Thermal Cycling of Injection Molds Boosts Surface Quality
In the injection molding process, tool temperature is an important factor in achieving high-quality parts. It is generally believed that higher tool temperature often results in better surface quality...

Plastics Technology, 2009-02-04, Novel PC/Polyester Blends Combine Stiffness and Ductility
...e of high modulus and ductile impact behavior is claimed for Xenoy HMD resins, recently launched by SABIC Innovative Plastics. As we reported initially in November, these PC/PBT and PC/PET alloys achi...

Plastics Technology, 2010-05-04, "Extreme Performance" Copolymers Push the Boundaries for Polycarbonate
SABIC Innovative Plastics recently took the wraps off a family of six polycarbonate copolymers that it has been developing for more than a decade.

Kunststoffe international, Flexible Guiding Systems for Cooling Air
...al spiral distributor with a diameter of 80 mm. For the investigations a die gap of 1.5 mm with a land length of 8 mm is used. The used materials are an LDPE (2102 N0W), an LLDPE (6118) and a HDPE (FO4660) from Sabic Europe B. V., Geleen, Netherlands, and a PP (Moplen EP 310 D) from Basell Polyolefine GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Depending on the process point, the mass throughput of the plant varies between approx. 15 kg/h and 40 kg/h. For each material, with and without AGS, the design of ex...

Kunststoffe international, Present in a Multitude of Trends
... is driven primarily by the disproportionately high increase in PC demand in China, which is consequently at the center of the capacity expansion. This will be driven by established, globally positioned PC manufacturers such as Covestro or Sabic, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, local producers such as Luxi Chemical, Liao‧cheng City, China, and Wanhua Chemicals, Yantai, China, and a burgeoning number of local newcomers such as Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical, Zhou‧shan, China. Should the currently announce...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Broad Range of Application: High-density Polyethylene (PE-HD)
... In order of their overall capacity (including joint-venture companies whose products they market) the world's biggest PE-HD producers are Chevron Phillips (overall capacity 2.7m t/a), ExxonMobil (2.7m t/a), Dow (2.5m t/a), BP Solvay (2.4m t/a), Sabic (1.7m t/a) and Basell and Atofina (each 1.5m t/a). These seven PE-HD producers own 45% of the overall PE-HD capacity installed worldwide. At present, 25 to 30% of the PE-HD capacity in Western Europe is in the form of swing plants, designed for...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Consumption Stabilises: Low-density Polyethylene (PE-LD/LLD)
...ables 1 and 2). As a result, utilisation of capacity remained relatively satisfactory despite the decline in consumption. Up until 2007, there will be no significant changes in capacity. In 2008, Huntsman is due to put a 400000t plant on stream. Sabic's scheduled PE-LD capacity in 2009 (380000t) still has project status. In contrast to PE-LD, PE-LLD capacities have gone up by 0.4 million t since 2001 to 3.2 million t. Because consumption has increased to a similar extent over the same period...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Details of Economic Development: High-density Polyethylene (PE-HD)
...here have been changes in the last three years to company structures including their subsidiaries and affiliates. By investing in Europe, foreign investors have acquired established marketing networks and access to their own production technologies. Sabic (Saudi Arabia), for example, has taken over DSM's monomer and polyolefin activities. BASF and Shell have sold their polyolefin joint venture, Basell, to Access Industries, a private industry holding company headquartered in the United State...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, General-purpose Plastics: Appearance Ever More Important
...rd polyolefin grades are sold via Alastian, Basells pure Internet branch of business. Those not requiring any "extras" do not have to pay for these and can benefit from lower prices. E-business also plays a key role at polyolefin producer Sabic; 30% of orders are said to go via the Internet there. The customer thus receives immediate notification of delivery deadlines. In a bid to simplify its product development, Sabic has opted not to keep developing new grades but to introduce grades...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, High Growth Rates: Polypropylene (PP)
...ction The world's largest PP manufacturers in order of total capacity (including joint ventures) are as follows: Basell (8.0 million t/a), Sinopec (2.8 million t/a), BP (2.5 million t/a), Atofina (2.1 million t/a), ExxonMobil (2.0 million t/a), Sabic (1.8 million t/a), Formosa Plastics (1.6 million t/a) and Borealis (1.6 million t/a). These eight producers account for more than 50% of overall capacity. Global installed production capacity has risen by more than 35% between 1998 and 2004. D...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, High-density Polyethylene (PE-HD)
...cturers in Western Europe. The four leading producers of 2001 (Basell, BP Solvay, Borealis, Atofina) now hold a capacity share of about 75 to 80% in Western Europe. In addition to DSM (10% of capacity), whose polyolefin activities are taken over by Sabic this year with the approval of the monopolies commission, other producers hold a share of 10 to 15%. Multimodal PE-HD Products Recent years have seen increasing interest in bimodal/multimodal PE-HDs, which provide outstanding properties, both ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Increasing Substitution: Low-density Polyethylene (PE-LD/LLD)
...xceeds the capacity of the PE-LD facilities. Figures 1 and 2 show how production capacity is divided up over the different regions of the world. In order of overall capacity, the biggest PE-LD/LLD producers are Dow (5.7m t/a), ExxonMobil (4.3m t/a), Sabic (2.2m t/a), Basell (1.4m t/a), Borealis (1.3m t/a, including Borouge) and Polimeri Europa (1.3m t/a) [3, 4]. In Western Europe, there are nine companies producing PE-LD and eight producing PE-LLD. The market leaders (in order of overall capaci...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polymer Design and Modification: Polypropylene (PP)
...nd end-use applications vary considerably (Fig. 1). Four of the five most important manufacturers of PP in Europe – Basell (2700kt), Borealis (1650kt), Innovene (previously BP/Solvay, 1300kt), Total Petrochemicals (previously Atofina, 1100kt) and Sabic (previously DSM, 850kt) – are still counted among the largest producers worldwide. However, Dow is here in Sabic’s position, and the sequence has changed. The reasons for the continued success of PP, which can be found in the replacement of trad...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polypropylene (PP)
...his kind, developed by Borealis on the basis of a similar process for low-pressure PE, went on-stream at Schwechat (Austria) in 2000. While the continuing company mergers and partial sales (most recent example: the sale of DSM’s PO business to Sabic) appear to be reducing technological diversity, a new development was announced at Basell: their Multizone Circulating Reactor (MZCR) combines two completely different polymerisation methods – fluidised and packed bed – in a loop [3]. This is expecte...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Thermoforming: Packaging is Dominant
...pen to allow the entire mould block to be removed (Fig.1). Kiefel AG also presented a KTR 5 cup forming machine, on which 75mm PP drinking cups were being formed. This is a joint project between Kiefel and the semifinished product manufacturer Sabic Europetrochemicals B.V., Sittard/Netherlands, and Mould & Matic Solutions, Micheldorf/Austria, a manufacturer of stacking and packing equipment (Fig.2). The aim of this cooperation was to increase output. Adolf Illig GmbH & Co., Heilbronn/Germany, a...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-01-25, Added Value: Compounding at Maximum Power Density
Compounding Compounding at Maximum Power Density Werner Wiedmann Added Value. In compounding, the limiting factor on throughput is usually the available power density. A disproportionate increase in economics and product quality requires a finely balanced increase in extruder torque, speed and free volume. The technological development of compounding on co-rotating extruders has been decisively influenced by improvements in design, material and computational methods. This has made it possibl...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-08, Injector Technology for Water Assist: The Key to Success
...se, but different cap geometries (Fig.3). The water-assist system used is a pressure-controlled Aquamold unit from Battenfeld Spritzgießtechnik GmbH, Meinerzhagen/Germany. For the studies, an unreinforced polypropylene (type 505P; manufacturer Sabic Europe Corporation, Sittard/Netherlands) was used. Experiments with an Octagonal Handle under Practical Conditions Each of the injectors was compared for a process window in which the delay time and water pressure are varied. The residual wall thick...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-12-06, News
...st film manufacturers. Increased sales up to PLN 138 million and the company’s debut on the Warsaw stock exchange testify to its success. “The partnership with the machine maker Battenfeld Gloucester and the raw materials manufacturers Sabic and Exxon have also made a huge contribution,” according to Grzegorz Kedzierski, President and CEO of Eurofilms. “Within a year, the customer base has risen from 470 to 580, and further growth is expected.”

Kunststoffe international, 2007-08-14, Focus on the Environment
... now developing material versions for use in the construction and road-building sectors. GE Plastics: Under a New Flag As is known, GE Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, has been part of the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), Riyadh/Saudi Arabia, since May. According to Heiner Markoff, President of GE Plastics Europe, the company staff are eager to see what further developments and decisions await them. The takeover did not affect GE Plastics’ development activities in any way, so...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-19, High-Density Polyethylene (PE-HD)
...and China are seeing growth rates that no longer occur in Europe. The list of major PE-HD producers in Europe is headed by Basell who with their Polish plants can claim their market leadership here. However, below fourth place (with the exception of Sabic) there are no companies who belong to the leading group of producers worldwide. About half the global capacity is shared between Chevron Phillips, Dow, ExxonMobil and Ineos followed by Sabic, Basell, Total, Equistar, NBC Iran and China National...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-19, Low-Density Polyethylene (PE-LD/PE-LLD)
...n site that is scheduled to come on stream in 2011 in Maracaibo, Venezuela; a 350kt plant in Stenungsund, Sweden, and a 300kt plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand. A 400kt-PE-LD facility planned by Huntsman in England has recently been acquired by Sabic; it is scheduled for startup in 2008 and intended to serve the Northern European market. Fig.1 presents a breakdown of PE-LD consumption in Western Europe. About three-fourths is still used for film production; extrusion coating is a distant second and...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-21, Polyarylsulfones (PSU, PESU, PPSU)
...aining producers of polyarylsulfones with a total capacity of approx. 35,000t/a (Table 1). As widely reported, Solvay took over the polyarylsulfone business of India’s Gharda Chemicals in mid-2006. PEI is only produced in the USA by GEP (now Sabic, current capacity approx. 15,000t/a). Given a total consumption of approx. 50,000t/a (2006), the utilization rates were high at facilities for producing amorphous HT thermoplastics in recent years. This explains recent announcements of both planned and...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-21, Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT)
...rs. One change that did take place was the sale by General Electrics (GE) of its plastics business. On account of shrinking margins and insufficient profitability, GE decided to sell its plastics business, GE Plastics, to the Saudi Arabian company Sabic. GE Plastics produces PBT in North America and also at Schwarzheide, Germany, in a joint production venture with BASF. A survey of the most important PBT manufacturers is given in Table 2. Applications In the automotive industry, which is the ...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-21, Polycarbonate (PC) and Polycarbonate Blends
...s recently signed two contracts for the construction of a bisphenol A and a PC production plant having annual capacities of 240,000 and 260,000t respectively that are to be set up in the Al-Jubail works in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic) holds a 35% share in this. Production is to start in 2009. Sabic, moreover, is taking over the entire plastics business of General Electric (GE) for USD 11.6 billion. The full transaction is to be finalized in the third quarter of this year. ...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-21, Polypropylene (PP)
...alance. PP Market still Commodity-driven One of the reasons for the good prospects in the sector is also the concentration process which, in the latest development of the past few years, has seen DSM being acquired by the biggest supplier, Sabic. None of the ten biggest producers worldwide has a capacity of less than 1 million t (Table 1), and the ten strongest suppliers serve more than half of the world market. The polypropylene market is, after all, essentially still a commodity-driven one. ...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-21, Polystyrene (PS)
...NC have what could be termed modern, competitive plants. These two Russian polystyrene makers have each extended their capacity by 50,000t/a since 2003; whether outdated plants were shut down as well is not known. In late 2006, the Saudi company Sabic founded a polystyrene joint venture with the Turkish polystyrene manufacturer Basar (capacity 40,000t/a) in which Sabic has a 70% holding. In view of Sabic’s aggressive plastic business strategy (acquisition of GEP), this could prove to be the firs...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-21, Styrene Copolymers (ABS, SAN, ASA, MABS)
...ades. In the mean time, Lanxess has incorporated its activities into a joint venture (49:51%) with Ineos, from which it plans to exit completely in two years. The remaining European suppliers (BASF, Dow, Lanxess/Ineos, Polimeri and GE Plastics/Sabic) can enjoy an improved situation regarding margins. In the past two years, ABS prices have increased from 1,500 EUR/t to 1,900 EUR/t [3]. With the transition from extensive product lines to a few, universally applicable grades, the Western suppliers ...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-11-21, A Shining Example
... aegis of Oechsler AG of Ansbach, Germany, that can be produced fully functional in injection molding by using insert and three-component technologies (Fig.3). In the first step, a housing made from dyed polycarbonate (PC) (manufacturer: Sabic Innovativ Plastic) was molded into which three lenses made from transparent polyamide (PA) (manufacturer: Evonik) were molded in a second step. Prior to injection molding the third component, a highly conductive PA6-based polymer (supplier: Siemens AG), th...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-12-17, Logistics and Know-how Rule the Market
...benefits. Moreover, offering a specific range of products may help the company stand out from its competitors. As another way to have fewer rival companies, an enterprise might buy and integrate them. Having bought DSM and Huntsman Petrochemicals, Sabic has recently integrated GE Plastics, now called Sabic Innovative Plastics. The company is going to focus on synergetic effects, first, and after that close the gaps between proprietary and subsidiary company. The enterprises altogether put partic...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-12-17, Under New Colors
Under New Colors When it became known in the middle of the year, that Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was to take over GE Plastics and its plastics activities from General Electric Company, Fairfield, USA, one question was inevitable: Which changes will follow the purchase? Since then, the takeover has been completed, and the new business Sabic Innovative Plastics has emerged. During the K 2007, Gerhard Gotzmann, Kunststoffe’s editor-in-chief, spoke with Heine...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-02-29, Reduce Costs by Integration
...tions made of polycarbonate can contribute to making use of such solutions because with this material geometries can be realized that go far beyond the possibilities of glass. For the realization of innovative glazing panels for future automobiles Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands, developed specially adapted polycarbonates such as Lexan GLX143 and an IR-absorbing product type. The enterprise is working on further materials with improved and/or new characteristics. Par...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-04-14, Streets ahead of Injection Molding
...ty plastics (ABS, SAN, PP) and in engineering plastics (including ionomer, POM, PBT, PC, PMMA, PA6 and PA66), as well as in a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer (TPU). Tests with the high-performance plastics PEI (grade: Ultem; manufacturer: Sabic Innovative Plastics), PPSU (grade: Radel R; manufacturer: Solvay GmbH) and PEEK (grade: Victrex PEEK; manufacturer: Victrex plc) produced strips in a quality that cannot be attained through the conventional form of production by injection molding or ...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-04-14, The Correct Material Choice
... industrial tests, such as elasticity and flexural modulus, also indicate the suitability of materials for a particular design. Engineering thermoplastics, such as PC, PC blends, polyphenylene oxide (PPO) blends and special composites, e.g. from Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, can show good resistance to shock, flames and chemicals. Polycarbonates and their mixtures are known for their shock resistance and robustness. They also have excellent mechanical and electrical pro...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-06-16, We're Moving towards Specialties
...s many others. Particularly where due to high raw material prices margin targets can no longer be achieved, a company can reach a critical point where it gives up. The latest example of this is GE who have sold their business unit GE Plastics to Sabic. Margins were given as the reason for the sale. Of course the whole environment is difficult. The automobile industry very often demands cost and price reductions and that without any regard to the achieved progress in productivity. Although the vo...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-08-14, Consolidated Strategies
In 2007, Sabic Innovative Plastics (Sabic IP), with its more than 10,500 employees, achieved turnover of more than USD 7 billion (this is approx. EUR 4.4 billion, at present). Its range of thermoplastics and compounds, coatings, films and sheets the company sells to major sectors of industry, such as transport and communication, including automotive and aircraft industry, E&E and construction, as well as medical industry. The company recently introduced to the public its future s...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-08-14, Plastics Remain on Growth Course
...ducers have been in a phase of ongoing restructuring. In 2007, for instance, Basell acquired Lyondell and formed LyondellBasell Industries. Hexion Specialty Chemicals intends to acquire Huntsman. GE Plastics, on the other hand, was acquired by Sabic and continues to operate as Sabic Innovative Plastics. Lanxess has brought its worldwide ABS plastics business (Business Unit Lustran Polymers) into a joint venture with the British chemical company Ineos. A complete exit from this business i...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-09-23, Plastics, Electronics and the Environment
...duce or entirely eliminate emissions from painting and finishing processes. Otherwise procedures such as the manufacture of hand applied glass-fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) are replaced because substantial amounts of styrene emission occur. Sabic Innovative Plastics and other plastics manufacturers can offer technical solutions, such as alternatives to painting with high solvent contents. Thus VOC emissions and production costs are reduced with pigmented plastics instead of paint. At th...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, High-Density Polyethylene (PE-HD)
...ompany Shell sold all its European polyolefin activities in the joint venture with BASF to Access Industries. Ineos, with BP’s polyolefin business also took over the PE-HD capacities of 1,000 kt in Western Europe (2,000 kt worldwide). Sabic has extended its polyethylene and polypropylene portfolio by taking over the engineering plastics from Sabic Innovative Plastics, considerably expanding its range and market position. Dow is currently realigning its global plastics business in ...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Low-Density Polyethylene (PE-LD, PE-LLD)
... at the end of 2008. It can be assumed that deliveries from these and other new production facilities will have a negative impact on capacity utilization in West European plants. In addition to this, new PE-LD capacities are being created in Europe. Sabic is bringing new capacities on stream in Wilton/Teesside, USA, in the course of 2008 for a total of 400,000 t/a. In 2009, Borealis will take up production in a new facility with a capacity of 350,000 t/a at the Swedish location of Stenungsund. A...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Polyamides (PA)
...re that the part remains dimensionally stable. High heat stability has to ensure that the part withstands the drying phase of the painting line without deformation where temperatures lie somewhat above 200°C for up to 30 min. In recent years, Sabic, Ineos and Rhodia have presented polymers for painting carbody parts online or inline (mainly PA66 grades and PA blends). With its Noryl GTX, Sabic offers a wide product portfolio based on (PA+PPE) blends, and Ineos has mineral-...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Polyarylsulfones (PSU, PESU, PPSU)
...r these amorphous HT thermoplastics is currently running at around 50 kt, and the market is expected to exceed 100 kt by 2020. BASF alone, one of the largest providers of these HT thermoplastics (in addition to Solvay, Sumitomo and Sabic), doubled its Ultrason capacity at its Ludwigshafen site to 12,000 t/a at the end of 2007. Automotive Construction: Special Materials for Complex Design Lamps Headlight reflectors are still the main application for polysulfones in the automotive sector. ...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT)
...s expanded the total capacity of the company in technical compounds in Asia to over 100,000 t/a. At the end of 2007 Lanxess expanded its compounding capacity for PA and PBT to around 45,000 t/a at its facility at Wuxi in China. In the middle of 2007 Sabic acquired the polymer business – and thus also PBT – from the American company GE. The independent business unit within the company has since then been called Sabic Innovative Plastics. In Europe BASF took over Sabic Innovative Pla...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Polycarbonate (PC)
...n and Middle East markets) while the Nafta region represents 19% of global PC consumption. At the moment, the PC competitive landscape is undergoing significant changes. For instance, in September of 2007, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) acquired the plastics business from General Electric for 11.6 billion US dollars (about 8.5 billion EUR), and the company is now operating under the name Sabic Innovative Plastics. With this acquisition, Sabic is the world’s...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
.... Even experts are surprised that PP offers an alternative to ABS in some of its applications. Novel copolymers such as Moplen EP1904, a nucleated injection molding polypropylene (manufacturer: LyondellBasell), or similar special grades from Sabic are characterized by good processability, low shrinkage and a balanced ratio of stiffness and toughness and high gloss. They can be used to produce toys and household goods, food containers and housings that are unbreakable even at low temperat...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Styrene Copolymers (ABS, ASA, SAN, MABS)
...xt year, Ineos plans to take over Lanxess’ remaining 49% share. BASF has already announced that it will shortly sell off its commodity business with ABS. There are thus only five producers in Europe (BASF, Dow, Ineos/Lanxess, Polimeri and Sabic IP). The capacity installed here is currently around 0.8 million t/a. In Asia, too, producers are combining into more economically powerful associations. For example, the two Taiwanese ABS manufacturers Chi Mei and Grand Pacific Petrochemic...

Kunststoffe international, 2009-10-14, Continuous Forming
...rency. As in all areas of the market and industry, traditional plastics are focused on sustainability. The goals of product development are thinner-walled products, improved cycle times and economic efficiency. These trends have been picked up by Sabic Europe BV, Sittard, Netherlands, which develops continually tailored products. For example, Sabic PP 527 K combines the possibility of manufacturing thinner-walled products with outstanding optical properties (Fig. 7). It offers the potential for ...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-01-27, Process-Integrated Surface Modification During Injection Molding
...ems confirm that reactive coupling under injection molding conditions is possible. Permanent Modification Demonstrated in Actual Practice For the initial basic investigations, PC plaques (150 mm × 75 mm × 2 mm) (grade: Lexan 121, supplier: Sabic) were modified during the injection molding process. Various substances serve as reactive modifiers, with PEI (Mw 750,000 g/mol, supplier: Sigma-Aldrich Co.) providing the best results. This modifier is dissolved in water at various concentrations (0.001...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-08-19, Grow Strategically
...uch as electrical equipment and electronics, even packaging have come to the fore. These companies have also utilized the time to expand their global presence. New research and development centers have been set up and production capacities expanded. Sabic: Expand and Develop Thus in June 2010, Sabic Innovative Plastics of Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands, put a compounding plant in operation together with a corresponding innovation center (CIC – Compounding Innovation Centre) in Genk, Belgium. Th...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-08-19, Plastics versus Metal
...ers, water pumps and valves, and water softener tanks, where the advantages of metal replacement such as design freedom and system cost reduction can be fully exploited THE AUTHORESS DR. MARTINA LEMMRICH is segment leader infrastructure at Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands; webinquiries@sabic-ip.com

Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Facilitating Technical Life
...d aircraft sector continues to be one of their principal domains. Yet the “green” trend is also gaining increasing ground, in the form of both biobased and low-emission materials. The following crosssectional profile provides a compact overview. Sabic Innovative Plastics Interior Fittings for Aircraft At Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, all good things come in fives: Lexan FST, Lexan XHR 6000 and F2000A sheet, Ultem 9090 and carbon fiber-reinforced Ultem plastics are the n...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Raising the Standards
...esistance to sterilization temperatures. The polyethylene also offers the possibility of a reduction in wall thicknesses. These advantages benefit in particular customers using the blow molding/filling/sealing technology. Hall 6, booth D24 Sabic Transparency in Packagings After slumps in sales during the crisis, Sabic, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is now banking on the long-term growth in the branch and on new developments. It is planned that the innovative materials should substitute certain of the pl...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Sustainable and Efficient
... range of applications. These comprise, for instance, designer televisions, window display installations, point-of-sale displays and transparent head-up displays installed in the front windshield of automobiles. Hall 6, booth A75-1 Sabic Efficient Isolation The new Lexan Thermoclick sheet system by Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands, is available as polycarbonate sheets at 1,000 mm width and 50 mm thickness. The sheets are designed for claddings and facades. Being the fir...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-11-25, The Long View
...gners of parts and the corresponding molds as there is currently no standard simulation software available for combined injection molding and injectioncompression molding. Two Consecutive Processes … Exatec, LLC in Wixom, MI/USA, a subsidiary of Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, which specializes in glazing systems made from Lexan polycarbonates, has developed a CAE method with which standard software can be customized for modeling the ICM-2K process. In this method, ICM an...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-02-21, Expedient Combination instead of Wasteful Installation
...search” (IGF) by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) via the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF). The authors wish to expressly extend their thanks to both institutions – as well as to Sabic Sales Europe B.V., Sittard, Netherlands, Mecobond Dr. Betz GmbH, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany, and Werkzeugbau Siegfried Hofmann GmbH, Lichtenfels, Germany, who provided material and mold cores for these trials. Varying the wall thickness of the part allows ...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-05-12, Sound and Smoke Are No Problem
... high environmental requirements, for example as regards their fire behavior and heat and UV resistance, or meet the specific requirements of rail and air travel. For example, they use the polycarbonate Lexan 940 (manufacturer: Sabic Innovative Plastics). Particular components, such as the acoustic emission sensor or ear pads of the headphones for medical applications, require skin-compatible plastics. Threaded metal bushes in the housings are either directly insert molded or hot-embedded. The i...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-06-20, Economic Multilayers
...hermal expansion coefficient and substrate thickness, the LuVo board was specially tailored for this application. The low thermal expansion of the LuVo board is achieved by filling the polymer matrix produced from polyetherimide (PEI; manufacturer: Sabic Innovativ Plastics) or polyethersulfone (PES; manufacturer: BASF) with high contents of low-expansion, inorganic fillers. The thermal expansion coefficient of a pure EP (epoxy) resin is comparable with that of a pure HT thermoplastic but three t...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-06-20, Hitting the Nail on the Head
...of micro and nanostructures on the molded part surface. The influence of various machine settings on the dimensions as well as the part weight of a molded cup (Fig. 3) made from polycarbonate (grade: Lexan Resin 123R, manufacturer: Sabic Innovative Plastics) was documented in a series of tests together with the signals from a pressure and a temperature sensor in the tool. In addition, a nickel shim is integrated into the mold cavity. It contains a series of holographic and diffractive elements t...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polyamides (PA)
...offering superior stiffness and dimensional stability. Considering the market situation, this polyamide is the car body material that features the most constant and the lowest CTE value over a wide range of temperatures (Fig. 3). Sabic Innovative Plastics Holding BV in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, offers Noryl GTX, an alternative material for car body application. It was designed on a PA-PPE blend basis. Ineos Olefins & Polymers Europe in Grangemouth, Great Britain, moves forward with minera...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polyarylsulfones (PSU, PESU, PPSU)
...ones in the world: BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Solvay, Brussels, Belgium, and Sumitomo, Sendai, Japan. The associated production capacity increased by more than 30 % in the past five years to about 45,000 t/a. Counting PEI (polyetherimide) from Sabic Innovative Plastics, Pittsfield, MA, USA, which competes with polyarylsulfones in many applications, the market has a production capacity of about 60,000 t/a in total (Table 1). The very wide range of applications comprises, besides automotive a...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT)
...demonstrate that they are environmentally aware by advertising their products as sustainable. For example, PBT grades are available, whose basic monomer unit (terephthalic acid) is derived from recycled PET (Valox IQ, Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands). Another approach is based on high-quality postconsumer recyclates (from PET beverage bottles). They are recycled by a special process into a PET that is free of contaminants, invariable in quality, and exhibits virtually unch...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polycarbonate (PC)
... near Shanghai, China, with an annual capacity of 80,000 t. Production is apparently scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2012. A number of other projects are also being planned. For example, Sinopec (China National Petrochemical) and Sabic Innovative Plastics of Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, announced in a press release that they are jointly investing in a new plant in Tianjin, China, with an annual capacity of 260,000 t. This is expected to go on stream in 2015. Bayer MaterialScience AG ...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA)
... Rayon (Korea), Evonik Industries (also in China and Taiwan), and Sumitomo (Singapore). Further investment in new PMMA plants for the Middle East has been announced or is at the planning stage – for example, the joint venture by Mitsubishi and Sabic. The situation on the raw materials market further deteriorated in the past year. Aside from the problematic rise in price of the raw materials for PMMA, such as MMA (methyl methacrylate), and of MMA precursors, such as acetone, production costs rose...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
... inside the pipe. For over 30 years, hot and cold water installations have used pipes made from random polypropylene copolymers (PP-R) due to their good resistance to heat and pressure; examples of standard materials here are Vestolen P9421 (Sabic) and Borealis RA130. The new PP-RCT class of materials enables pipes to be used at higher pressures or their wall thickness to be reduced. The polymer beta PP-R RA7050 (Borealis) is tailormade in terms of molecular weight distribution and comonomer con...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Styrene Copolymers (ABS, ASA, SAN, MABS, and ABS Blends)
...th figures are regarded as exceptionally good. Blends of ABS and polycarbonate, for example, still have considerable market importance. Large suppliers are Bayer Material Science AG, Leverkusen, Germany, (Bayblend) and Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, (Cycoloy). The main field of application for the amorphous thermoplastic (ABS+PC) blends is the automotive sector; experts estimate the volume of the European (ABS+ PC) market for automotive applications alone at about 50,000...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-02-24, Portable Medical Devices
...) devices. The global market for home healthcare devices is set to grow by more than 9 % by 2012 with the market exceeding USD 70 billion in 2012. [1] Performance Spectrum of Plastics Advanced materials, such as healthcare resins and composites from Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, can make important contributions to a portable medical device throughout its life cycle, from design to manufacturing to everyday use. Design Freedom: Light weight and ergonomic design are vital...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-11-26, Demands and Innovations
...erties without the use of bromine or phosphorus. MEP highlights LEDs and lenses as potential applications, as EMT3100 and 3120 have a light transmissivity of 88 % at thicknesses up to 3 mm and an opacity <1 %. Sabic Innovative Plastics, Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands, offers new flameretardant polycarbonate grades for the E&E sector:The Lexan CFR (Clear Flame Retardant) copolymer and three new Lexan LUX polymer grades. The Lexan CFR copolymer satisfies the growing demands of manufacturers in...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-04-19, Automatic Corrections and Calculations
... stabilizer (grade: Tinuvin 622 and Irganox 1010, manufacturer: BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany) by just 0.1 % resulted in a color deviation of 1.11 and 0.82 respectively in a polypropylene (PP) compound (grade: Sabic PP 505P, manufacturer: Sabic Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Düsseldorf, Germany) containing a brown masterbatch (5 wt%) (Fig. 1). In contrast, with a specimen molding release aid (grade: Crodamide ER, manufacturer: Croda...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-07-22, High Flowability Cuts Costs
...rapid set-up times and, if possible, short cycles. These requirements are met by materials such as polypropylene (PP) random copolymers with good flow properties and a high melt index and enhanced nucleation. For example, the new PP random copolymer Sabic PP QR674K is suitable for this costsaving purpose. Thanks to its improved organoleptic properties (low odor), this new copolymer is recommended mainly for applications in direct contact with food. These include, in particular, lids and closures...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-02-20, Material Characterization: Useful Process Data from the Injection Molding Machine
...n the control system of injection molding machines (here MC6, Krauss-Maffei) the trend and current values for process parameters can be visualized on chart plotters and trend curves Fig. 2. The indicator used for a material comparison (Sabic PP 571, 575, 576) is the viscosity index during injection. Parameters such as back pressure, plasticating speed or dwell time have little influence on the material used. A change in the MFI in the otherwise identical material, on the other hand, can be clear...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-04-14, Hybrid Materials: Lighter Thanks to Tailored Composites
...reinforced components that possess improved properties (high strength and high notched-impact strength). The intent here is to open up new applications in the non-visible areas of car interiors. Materials and Experiments The matrix material was PP Sabic 575P, a polypropylene supplied by Sabic Germany GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany. The chosen filler for the studies was a fine softwood mixture of spruce/fir, with an average fiber length of 75 µm. This was provided by the Jelu-Werk Josef Ehrler GmbH & ...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-04-14, Water-Driven Projectile Injection Technology: A Practicable Way to Produce Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Hollow Articles
...e following companies for providing the materials and system engineering: Ferromatik Milacron GmbH, Malterdingen, Germany, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Siltex Flecht- & Isoliertechnologie Holzmüller GmbH & Co. KG, Julbach, Germany, Sabic Deutschland GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany, and PME fluidtec GmbH, Ettenheim, Germany. Continuous fiber braiding and projection injection technology, a promising combination (figures: IKV) Fig. 1. The main innovation in the process flow for forming continuous fibe...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-05-07, Polyetherimide: Resistant in Every Position
...procedure, with which thermoplastic components are built up directly in layers from 3D-CAD data (Fig. 1). Since 2003, this process is one of the most widely used additive manufacturing procedures [1] for creating prototypes, molds, and end products. Sabic Innovative Plastics in Bergen op Zoom/The Netherlands supplies polyetherimide (PEI), which can be used for this technology, and thanks to its properties it is also particularly interesting for the aerospace and automotive industries [2, 3]. The...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-08-19, New Ideas and Political Markets
... bond and the monomer building blocks. Controversy surrounds the question whether a product actually has to contain renewable, i. e., biobased content, or whether it is sufficient for an equivalent content to be assigned to it. Sabic of Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, introduced a portfolio of renewable polyolefins in April in which biomass fed into the production chain is assigned to PE or PP via the mass balance. What the biomass content present in renewable PE or PP actually is, can scarcely be ...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT)
...of 63,000 t per annum. The operator, Sipchem, plans to start initial test runs during the fourth quarter of 2014. Extensive investments are being made in compounding, on the other hand. Understandably, the focus here is in Asia. For example, Sabic Innovative Plastics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, commissioned a compounding plant in the Western Chinese city of Chongqing in 2013. BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, is currently building a compounding plant with a capacity of 36,000 t per annum for polyamide ...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polycarbonate (PC)
...ate.At present, Bayer MaterialScience AG in Leverkusen, Germany, is building two additional PC lines in Caojing near Shanghai, which will double the plant’s capacity from 200,000 t/a to a total of 400,000 t/a. Sinopec in Peking, China, and Sabic in Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia are planning a new plant with a capacity of 260,000 t/a in Tianjin, Hebei Province. The Chinese company Luxi Chemical has announced the construction of a PC production facility with a capacity of 65,000 t/a in Liaocheng, Shandong ...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA)
...t leaders in the global PMMA molding compound and semi-finished products business, accounting for just under 45 % of global capacity. Future investment projects concentrate on the Middle East region. The joint venture between Mitsubishi Rayon and Sabic, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is advancing with expansion plans for a new MMA (250 kt) and PMMA (40 kt) facility in Saudi Arabia. The official start of construction was announced recently. Since 2010, many of the raw materials such as MMA (methyl methacr...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polypropylene (PP)
...n multilayer films.But PP can also be modified with different polyethylene grades. A good example of this is the combination of PP and LLDPE for improved shrink film introduced by Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the automotive sector, PP is being modified with HDPE to improve scratch resistance and surface texture. Whole new developments in the film sector are taking place with extremely flexible grades – an area long exclusively covered by Lyondellbasell Ind...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-02-28, Icy Foaming
...the forming of the film, a liquid heated annular die is used with a gap diameter of 50 mm. The film is then stretched around a cooling mandrel (stretching ratio 1:3), cut and wound up flat. For the investigations, LDPE 2102tx00 from Sabic Europe AG, Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands, is used. As nucleating agent, talc is used in form of a masterbatch, Polybatch FPE 50 T from A. Schulman GmbH, Kerpen, Germany. It consists of 50 wt. % each of LDPE and talc. The recipe contains 0.5 wt. % masterbatch....

Kunststoffe international, 2015-05-21, Combined Feed of Granulate and Propellant
...ys, the potentials of this new process were demonstrated on a fully electric machine (type: Allrounder 820 A). In a cycle time of about 70 s, thick-walled airbag housings were produced with long-fiber granulate (grade: PP-LF10, manufacturer: Sabic Innovative Plastics in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands). With a weight of just 272 g, and a length of 280 mm, this lightweight component is some 18 % lighter than its compact injection-molded counterpart.As far as could be observed on this exhibit, pro...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-10-12, 3-D Printing Is Everywhere
...national Manufacturing Trade Show 2014" in Chicago (Fig. 3).The Baam is an extrusion machine developed from a flat-bed laser cutting machine that works directly with pellets. It processes a carbon fiber-filled ABS from cooperation partner Sabic. Prior to printing, the traversing paths for depositing the material strands were defined with the aid of simulation software from the partner AlphaStar in order to minimize cracks and deviations caused by warpage. The parts can be machined subsequently, ...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-12-17, Pipes for Flying
...ns and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment") in consultation with the associated partners Apparatebau Gauting GmbH, Gauting, Germany, and Diehl Aircabin GmbH, Hamburg, Germany. It transpired that the standard PEI grade Ultem 1000 (manufacturer: Sabic Innovative Plastics) tends to undergo stress corrosion cracking after immersion in Skydrol LD IV, a hydraulic fluid. Notably, this cracking manifests itself not in a lowering of tensile strength or elongation at yield during statics tests, but ra...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-12-17, Solutions for Manufacturing of the Future
...s Injection Molding (IMKS) in a presentation from Philipp Ochotta (IKV), and the production of physically foamed long glass fiber reinforced plastic parts using the "Profoam" method in a contribution from Angel Yanev, Processing Specialist at Sabic, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Regular Kunststoffe international readers will be familiar with both. Session 3 (Process Technology) concluded with a "Symbiosis of Measuring Technology and Injection Molding. Rod Groleau, founder of RJG Inc., Traverse City, MI/...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-02-17, Foaming with Little Fiber Fracture
...t parts will gain greater importance in future. WAverage Glass Fiber LengthDuring his presentation at the International Injection Moulding Conference 2015 in Aachen, Germany, Angel Yanev explained how in the technical center of plastics manufacturer Sabic the different processes were compared. The process conditions for compact injection molding and the Profoam process were identical apart from the fact that the latter was using a blowing agent. For the MuCell process Trexel helped to adjust the...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-09-19, High-Variant Production Cast in the Same Mold
...h of the IKV Plastics Processing Institute in Aachen, Germany, their first port of call. There, a production cell designed with decisive inputs from the machine, mold and raw materials experts at Arburg, together with Georg Kaufmann Formenbau and Sabic, will be producing individually tailored bicycle saddles with a cycle time of approximately one minute (see p. 90). While the selected production process of back-filled structural-reinforcement tapes and laminates is, in itself, already far from ...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-09-23, Having a Good Grip on Hot Laminates
...n molding [1–3], has already managed to gain commercial acceptance in initial mass production applications. Working together in a further project, development partners Georg Kaufmann Formenbau AG (GKTool), Busslingen, Switzerland, KraussMaffei and Sabic, Geleen, Netherlands, have now successfully manufactured components reinforced with UD (unidirectional) laminates in a process which is suitable for mass production. These laminates consist of continuous fibers which are embedded in a thermoplast...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-09-23, Industry 4.0 Saddles Up
...ction process for every single part. This is also helpful for analysis purposes.Laminates and Tapes for Thermoplastic Fiber ReinforcementThe laminates and tapes are added to the production unit as fiber-matrix semi-finished products (manufacturer: Sabic). They consist of a PP matrix with a unidirectional continuous glass fiber reinforcement. The planar layer structure is cut into shape. The tapes and laminates are positioned in the mold using a specialized gripper (manufacturer: ASS Maschinenbau...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Confidence in Composite Simulations
Overmolded thermoplastic composites can give affordable weight savings for automotive applications. However, robust predictability procedures for these new materials are not yet state of the art. For this reason, Sabic has developed a test component that can be produced in a representative production process, and is able to validate predictions for all of the many different composite failure modes. To improve the simulations even further, an integrated simulation approach – one which takes into ...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Determining Viscosity Directly in the Injection Molding Process
...ntical at one point of the capillary cross-section. The shear rate at this point is designated as representative shear rate [8, 9].Materials with Different Fiber Volume RatiosAs matrix material, polypropylene (type: PP 575P, manufacturer: Sabic, Sittard, Netherlands) was used. The reinforcing fibers used were regenerated cellulose fibers (type: CR, manufacturer: Cordenka GmbH, Obernburg, Germany), hemp fibers (type: SKF 2, manufacturer: Bafa GmbH, Malsch, Germany) and glass fibers (type: CS 792...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polycarbonate (PC)
..., Ltd. into one company by April of 2017. Creating a more effective organization structure in order to better respond to market changes and facilitate expansion is the objective. Outside of Asia, the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, recently announced that it intends to dissolve the "Innovative Plastics" division and integrate it into the parent company. Assigning the various elements to a commodity and a specialty business is planned. According to the company, t...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polyethylene (PE)
...ene producer landscape lately. The shift of investments to other regions is remarkable, for instance to the Middle East. This is indicated by the current top ten polyolefin producers: ExxonMobil leads the ranking, followed closely by Dow Chemical, Sabic and Sinopec (Table 2). This Chinese producer held 7th place in the ranking just ten years ago. The ten largest manufacturers accounted for over 49 % of total capacities in 2006. This has dropped to less than 47 % ten years later, confirming how d...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
... almost universal silence. Ziegler-Natta catalysts with a phthalic acid ester as internal donor are gradually being replaced by alternative systems. This step is hardly mentioned by the large PP manufacturers such as LyondellBasell, Sabic, Borealis and Total, and it is less the result of chemical regulations than of customer wishes. Special PP grades for the medical sector, such as the Purell family from LyondellBasell or the Bormed products from Borealis have already benefited in the past from ...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-11-30, A Treasure Trove of "Industry 4.0" Technologies
...art thickness and type of fiber reinforcement can be varied from shot to shot (Fig. 7). The project partners here are Arburg, ASS, Georg Kaufmann Formenbau, gwk, Hasco, HRS flow, IOS, Kistler, Krelus, Motan, Sabic, Sensopart and Stäubli. The exhibit is also a good example of how companies can benefit from networking. The closing words are due to Dr. Michael Zaun, Managing Director Technology at gwk. The company is currently working on a prototype in order to utilize process data of temperature-c...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-02-23, All Elements at a Glance
...offers users the possibility of qualifying materials themselves and building up their own know-how.As current examples, Arburg demonstrated the processing of the high-temperature material polyetherimide (PEI; type: Ultem 9085; manufacturer: Sabic), a medical polylactide and a bio-polyamide (Grilamid BTR 600; manufacturer: EMS-Grivory). The Freeformer is supplied as a holistic system, with Arburg making heavy demands on the quality of the process control. In the last year, the system, which proce...

Kunststoffe international, 2017-12-21, 3D Printing: From Fascinating Novelty to Commercial Maturity
...oducers are nailing their colors to the mast, even if the tonnages required for additive manufacturing will long or even always remain a "specialty" as far as they are concerned. But when – as, for example, on the booth of the formnext newcomer Sabic – generatively produced yacht hull parts are exhibited, it is obvious that things have progressed beyond just a prototype here or a couple of spare parts there. Even for individual pieces or small-lot production runs, considerable material quantitie...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-07-17, Process Set-Up through Machine Learning
... quality of the regression methods. A small RMSE represents good prediction quality.Data Basis with Simulations as Digital ShadowsA plate specimen and a geometrically more complex box specimen made of polypropylene (grade: PP 579S, manufacturer: Sabic, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) were used to validate the proposed approach. In addition to the part weight, two dimensions were used as quantifiable quality criteria for evaluation (Fig. 2).Both, in the simulation (software: Cadmould 3D-F, manufacturer: S...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-11-09, Droplets to the Beat of Milliseconds
...ein. It also contains special plastics for specialized applications such as medical-grade PLLA (type: Purasorb PL18 and Resomer LR 708; manufacturer: Corbion or rather Evonik) as well as a PC approved for aerospace applications (Lexan 940, Sabic), for example. The range of qualified materials is continuously being expanded. In the Arburg Prototyping Center (APC) at the German headquarters in Lossburg, several Freeformers produce benchmark parts for prospective customers.Influence of Machine Para...

Kunststoffe international, 2019-04-25, Wireless Life Cycle Monitoring in the Injection Molded Part
...temperature sensor type 6188AA (Kistler Group) was used. Additionally injection molding simulation was performed by use of Moldflow (Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, CA/USA). The sensor insert parts were overmolded with polypropylene (PP, grade: PHC31, Sabic, Riyad, Saudi-Arabia) at a melt temperature of 220 °C and a mold temperature of 45 °C. Part-Integrated, Wireless Temperature MonitoringIn combination with the presented measurement system it was possible to realize a continuous temperature measur...

Kunststoffe international, 2019-12-18, Electromobility and a Concept Vehicle
...ires are more difficult to extinguish than fires in conventional cars with combustion engines. For this reason, automakers protect the battery packs with special underbody shields and other safety devices such as e. g. side skirts. At the K, Sabic from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, presented the polyester-based material Xenoy HTX for such skirts. The material originates from the company’s Xenoy series, and is available as unreinforced and glass fiber-reinforced version. In order to demonstrate the mater...