Ultracom - PA, PBT - BASF SE

Kunststoffe international, 2013-08-19, Pooled Expertise Creates More Value
...ons for BASF plastics in auto manufacture range from oil pans, bumper supports, and chassis damping through dashboards, interior trim, cable insulation, and roof modules to new wheel concepts (Fig. 3). With the new Ultracom composites package, the company is now entering the market for semifinished products with continuous fiber reinforcement (Fig. 4) and at K2013 will offer the automotive industry for the first time a package comprising semi-finished products, polymer pellets for overmolding pl...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-03-21, Novel Material Concepts: Sustainability and Design
...superior to corresponding aluminum oxide compounds. From a Single Source At its booth during the K-show, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, demonstrated its competence for the materials and processing technologies based on Ultracom, the new product and service package for continuous fiber-reinforced composite parts, by producing a multi-piece hardshell case. Previously prepared thermoplastic laminate inserts of Ultralaminate were first plasma-treated to ensure optimal adhesion to the soft component...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-07-22, Concepts for Exciting Ideas
...tion. The brief was to develop innovative car seats, which at present generally consist of many different metal parts. Instead of this, the entrants were challenged to solve the design task using BASF polymer materials, such as Ultracom, Infinergy, valure, Acrodur and Elastollan. The creative use of materials that in some cases had customarily been employed in other applications also inspired the BASF engineers with new ideas.
Another lesson from recent years is that engineers and designers can ...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polyamides (PA)
...-fiber-reinforced semi-finished fabrics (type: Tepex). BASF has developed the necessary know-how in-house. They added the respective competences to their technical center, and presented their own new range of products and services, named Ultracom, at K 2013. This comprises semi-finished products with the respective thermoplastic overmolding materials tailored to them, in addition to a comprehensive range of services from BASF’s application development, including component testing, simulation by ...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-10-12, Lightweight Construction with Thermoplastics Ready for Serial Production
...h semi-finished product manufacturer TenCate Advanced Composite BV, Nijverdal, and fiber manufacturer Owens Corning, Toledo, USA, for the production of thermoplastic composites for automotive engineering. BASF’s product group is called Ultracom and includes both semi-finished products with continuous fiber reinforcement and adapted injection molding compounds. The main innovation here are the semi-finished products, i. e. laminates made of woven or non-woven fibers and unidirectional tapes, impr...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polyamide 6 and 66 (PA6 and PA66)
...Innovations Award 2016 for the most innovative supplier in the "chassis, body and exterior" category.Despite vigorous development activities by the OEMs, suppliers and raw materials manufacturers such as Lanxess (Tepex) and BASF (Ultracom), parts based on endless fiber-reinforced composites are slow in becoming established. One of the few serial applications in the automotive industry is the rear bumper beam of Honda’s new "Clarity Fuel Cell" car. It is made of Tepex, a fiber-reinforced composit...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-05-15, Cradle of Thermoplastics
...4.0.An example of the far-reaching customer focus of the pilot plant facility can be seen in a near-real-world manufacturing cell that since March 2013 has been able to produce multifunctional composite test parts in one step (Fig. 3). The Ultracom manufacturing cell is part of the lightweight design activities of BASF. The aim was to develop a fully automated process that could be completed within a typical injection molding cycle time. Through systematic parallelization of the individual proce...