Luran - SAN - INEOS Styrolution

Kunststoffe international, Diverse Shapes and Applications
...al vehicles. Four materials stand out in particular: Novodur Ultra 4255 and H701 have been developed to become the materials of choice for interior automotive applications. Exterior automotive applications take advantage of Luran S materials which provide a perfect surface even for high gloss aesthetic applications. It can be combined with the hot stamping technology and helps to reduce production cost. Luran S also makes inroads into the development of new electric and hybrid vehicles. An exam...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Colourfast Window Profiles
... properties Styrene copolymers are thermoplastic materials containing, apart from styrene, at least one other monomer in the polymer main chain. The most important non-impact-modified representatives are styrene acrylonitrile copolymers (SAN; type: Luran, manufacturer: BASF). Through the addition of graft rubbers to SAN, we get, depending on the type of rubber component used, either ABS (type: Terluran and Ronfalin, manufacturer: BASF) or ASA (type: Luran S, manufacturer: BASF) [1]. Impact modi...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Colourmatch-capable Film Technology: A Technology Waits in the Wings
... metallics [2]. One alternative that does provide for colour matching is the offline 3-D coating of functional films. This technology has been verified at Inpro for production-line manufacture. It involves thermoforming monolayer films (e.g. of Luran SV PFM, a blend of acrylonitrile styrene acrylate with polycarbonate (ASA+PC), manufacturer: BASF AG) approx. 1mm thick, backmoulding with a thermoplastic (e.g. ABS) reinforced with 15% LGF, and then applying a three-coat system offline 3-D in the ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Cost Efficiency and Innovations
...tly developing into standard products rather than specialities. This area of the company is thus increasingly concentrating its efforts on application research and development in cooperation with customers. Examples of this include the tailgate in Luran S or housings for office machines in Terluran. Customer Proximity and Specialities BASF's product portfolio covers the entire polyurethane product range. The company has its own production facilities for the basic PU products of MDI, TDI an...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Dimensional Stability and Impact Strength
...reated by combining amorphous plastics, such as in (PC+styrene copolymer) blends - (PC+ASA). Key aspects of product development for applications involving automotive body parts are discussed below, taking the example of (PC+ASA) blends (e.g. grade: Luran S KR 2868 C, manufacturer: BASF). Dimensional Stability In the field of off-line painted body parts, use has so far been made primarily of (PC+PBT+MBS) and (PC+ABS) blends, while (PPE+PA) blends are used for online painting [5]. Compared with ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Exterior Vehicle Body Parts: Films instead of Painting?
...ction moulding was reported for the first time [2, 3]. These films achieved a significant reduction in manufacturing costs, while providing higher surface hardness and inherent polishability due to the use of a PMMA top layer on a carrier layer of LuranS (ASA and ASA+PC). At K’98 in Düsseldorf/Germany, BASF AG, along with its partners Engel GmbH, Senoplast GmbH & Co.KG and Röhm GmbH, exhibited a large part for the first time [4, 5], which was produced by back injection/ back compression moulding...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, LFT-D Processes: Visible Parts from Continuous-strand-Reinforced Thermoplastics
...of a demonstration part (left) made by conventional LFT-D-ILC and a part made by LFT-D-ILC in-line chopped-strand technology (right) Fig. 6. Penetration test Overall penetration energy of the LFT film composites: SAN Luran GF30 and GF15 with Luran S film Fig. 7. Thermal extensibility Average coefficient of linear thermal expansion of LFT film composites: SAN Luran GF30 and GF15 with Luran S PFM film Manufacturer: Dieffenbacher GmbH + Co. KG Heilbronner Str. 20 D-75031 Eppingen Germany www...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Risk Assessment: Nickel and Chromium Rutile Yellow – Pigment Class with Low Risk
...e pigments is evident in their absolute fastness to migration. Migration tests were conducted on eight different plastics (Ultramid B3, Polyclear T 86, Novolen 1100 T, Polystyrene 475 K, Lupolen 6031 M, Polystyrene 144 C, Luran 368 R, Terluran 877), each containing 1% chromium rutile yellow. The coloured plaques were immersed for 10 days at 40°C in different food simulants, usually 3% acetic acid, distilled water, 10% alcohol and test fat HB 307. In all the tests, the content of metals remained ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Styrene Plastics: Wrapping up Beauty in an Attractive Pack
...: Unusual Design Solutions for Specific Markets In addition to Terlux, other BASF plastics also offer manufacturers of cosmetic packaging specific advantages for particular applications and markets, above all Luran (SAN), polystyrene (PS) and Terluran (ABS). Luran, for example, with its brilliant and elegant surface finish, is particularly easy to print and gives designers enormous scope for creativity. Polystyrene is noted for its high gloss, and its excellent flow properties also allow unusua...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Styrene-butadiene Block Copolymers: Combining Haptics and Design
...r by the second-biggest class, the styrene-acrylonitrile copolymers (SAN). These are used in cases where the property profile of polystyrene is no longer sufficient for the application in question. BASF's styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN), Luran, is a transparent material used in a broad range of applications thanks to its combination of chemical resistance and dishwasher resistance, coupled with a high strength, stiffness and resistance to temperature changes. This traditionally takes ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Synergy Creates New Technology
...or this application, a new material concept (PFM System, Manufacturer: BASF) has been developed in the last few years [4]. It uses a coextruded film (e. g. the Senotop in-mould film) of acrylic coated acrylonitrile styrene acrylester copolymer (ASA; Luran S, Manufacturer: BASF) and a suitable back-moulding material based on styrene copolymers or their blends [1, 2]. For a service temperature range of between - 40°C and 90°C, the most economical solution is to use ABS (Terluran, Manufacturer: BAS...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Wide Range of Applications: Styrene Copolymers
...e, customer-specific system solutions represent the critical value added in addition to the product properties alone. Global marketing structures and focussed customer service are central to success. ABS specialties: With the ABS specialty Terluran HH, BASF offers materials with a property profile targeted specifically to the requirements of two important customer segments. The temperature-resistant Terluran HH is employed primarily in automotive applications where the resin must withstand inte...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-06-29, Application Study: PVC Becoming Even "Hotter"
...er which is inherently characterised by a high glass transition temperature. α-Methylstyrene-acrylonitrile copolymers (AMSAN) are polymers which are highly compatible with PVC and have a high glass transition temperature. Such a copolymer (Luran KR 2556) has been employed by BASF since as early as the 1970s for the production of heat-resistant ABS plastics (Terluran HH 106 and Terluran HH 112; the number after the abbreviation HH specifies the Vicat B50 softening temperature of the High He...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-01-22, Preserving our Cultural Heritage
...ral heritage. Expert knowledge of modern plastics technology – from modern polymers to colour plastics design – can be of considerable benefit in this. Richard Adler, Christian Bonten Modern polymers such as SAN (styrene/acrylonitrile polymer; Luran S), modified ABS (acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene polymer; Terluran) and MABS polymers (methylmethacrylate / acrylonitrile / butadiene / styrene polymer; Terlux) are today considered to be genuine design materials because of the creative opportunit...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-04-17, Tailor-made Matrix Systems for FRPs
... for all representatives of this group of thermoplastics, the styrene copolymer SAN (styrene acrylonitrile) displays high strengths and stiffnesses over a broad range of temperatures. In addition, its glass transition temperature, at 110°C (grade: Luran 358N, manufacturer: BASF AG) is higher than that of the other bulk thermoplastics. Contrary to the case for polyamides, styrene copolymers absorb virtually no water and do not therefore suffer any reduction in their glass transition temperature u...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-06-18, International Character is Standard
...rror Housings in a Family Mould Together with the 3-D data file, the automotive supplier provides additional data regarding the moulding process: The mirror housings will be moulded in an impact-modified styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (ASA, grade: Luran S; manufacturer: BASF AG, Ludwigshafen/Germany) on an injection moulding machine with a clamping force of 3,500kN (manufacturer: Krauss-Maffei Kunststofftechnik GmbH, Munich/Germany). TMT reviews the data for possible problem areas in the mould...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-04-14, Safety Has Priority
...Medical-grade Line-up The already introduced medical-grade resins from BASF include a transparent MABS (methylmethacrylate-acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer) with the trade name Terlux 2802 HD (Title photo) and the broadband ABS grade Terluran HD-15 that has been commercially available since 2006 and can be used for a variety of housings and enclosures. The inhalers produced by Plastiape S.p.A., Osnago, Italy, for Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany, represent one of the first high...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Styrene Copolymers (ABS, ASA, SAN, MABS)
...yethylene in the case of ACS. An attractive and versatile application for SAN is the overmolding of parts with a transparent SAN cover layer to provide brilliant surfaces with a depth effect. This is suitably done with a UV-stabilized SAN grade (Luran Crystal Clear), which is easy to process and offers an economic alternative to PMMA and PC. Typical applications are household appliances, telephone housings, panels of large appliances and the like. Increasing a material’s functiona...

Kunststoffe international, 2009-02-17, Transparency and Good Service
BASF SE of Ludwigshafen, Germany, has recently made its HD services available to buyers of its Luran HD styrene acrylonitrile copolymer from the medical technology sector, too (HD means healthcare and diagnostics). If compared to other types of transparent materials, Luran has a higher resistance to chemical impact. It is stiffer, can be processed more easily, and its properties are barely affected by temperature variations. The material is commercially available now. “By bringing Luran HD to th...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-02-21, Operation in Hand
...tomers of its specialty polymer line in this sector: In addition to the polyacetals Ultraform W2320 003 PRO and Ultraform S2320 003 PRO, which differ in terms of flow characteristics and molecular weight, it covers the styrene copolymers Luran HD, Terluran HD and Terlux HD. Users of these plastics benefit not only from comprehensive application-specific advice and support for design, but also with regard to the calculation of the component. The materials also possess Drug Master Files as well as...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-06-20, Weatherproof for Wind Turbines
...inetIQ International has developed in close collaboration with Pekago, Goirle, Netherlands, Albis Plastic GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, and BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany, its first small wind turbine in the PIQO Series with the aid of the styrene polymer Luran S KR 2858 G3. The new product is intended to provide locally generated energy on industrial facilities, high-rise buildings, hospitals and other municipal buildings as well as private homes. Its smaller diameter and, above all, lower weight dis...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Styrene Copolymers (ABS, ASA, SAN, MABS, and ABS Blends)
...letely different, adapted business models. A niche in which the corresponding ABS variants act as specialties is still the growing medical market. Materials predestined for this market include, e.g., ABS special grades such as Terluran HD-15 (Styrolution). Although many ABS manufacturers now offer products with special medical service packages, there are still considerable differences in detail. It is worthwhile for many users to compare the offerings in detail. High-temperature modifications su...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-02-22, Greater Transparency
...an be beta, gamma and ETO-sterilized and is suitable for laser marking and for cost-effective joining processes such as gluing and welding, heat, chemicals and scratch-resistant sample holders, vacuum bottles and atomizer housings of Luran HD SAN (styrene-acrylonitrile), clear, transparent and rigid consumables such as disposable razors, filter housings and connectors of free-flowing NAS SMMA (styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer). The copolymer must not be predried before injection molding, inf...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-05-16, Piano Black Finish without Painting
...or is achieved by adding a specially tailored pigment system to the inherently transparent material. This gives rise to the brilliant shade that gives admirers the impression they are looking right into the material. The piano black color variant (Luran HH 120 bk 37133) was used for the first time in the production of the B pillar trim for the Skoda Superb (Title figure). AMSAN copolymers, which have very good compatibility with PVC and a high glass transition temperature, were previously used m...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Styrene Copolymers
...wning more and more new applications. In recent years, Styrolution Group GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany, has succeeded for example in tapping the field of automotive exterior applications by developing customized formulations based on heat-resistant Luran HH-120 (alpha-methylstyrene-acrylonitrile). This product is used in door pillar trims and other decorative elements because it offers a combination of many factors. Thus, the SPF50 grade possesses very good UV stability, high gloss and exceptional de...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-05-21, 150 Years of BASF
...pplications, they would soon become indispensable. Whether in refrigerators or vacuum cleaners, the plastics boom was shaped by BASF plastics such as polystyrene and polyamide. Briefly after its market launch (1962), the styrene copolymer Luran realized new designs for tableware and furniture. A prominent example was the Panton Chair, which, with its legendary cantilevered design, was an icon of Pop Art. It was made from Luran in the 1970s. Its successor, the innovative Myto cantilevered chair, ...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-08-14, You Buy with Your Eyes
...opolymers With its broad range of SAN and SMMA plastics, Ineos Styrolution, for example, targets high-quality cosmetic packaging, among other products. The plastics manufacturer partners with Hopf Packaging GmbH, Nördlingen, Germany, to develop SAN Luran 338L, thick-walled crystal-clear cosmetic jars (Title figure). They can be colored and personalized by different printing techniques. Together with the globally active Toly Group, Ineos Styrolution developed a creative packaging concept for well...

Kunststoffe international, 2019-07-17, Matt is the New Shining
...est plates were then subjected to a series of laser engraving tests. The following styrene grades for automotive interiors from Ineos Styrolution were selected: Novodur H701 (100 % ABS), Novodur H801 (ABS+PC), Novodur U4255 (ABS+PC), Luran HH120 SPF50 (high heat SAN), Terblend N NM21EF (PA+ABS), and Luran S KR2863C UV (PC+ASA). Laser engraving made different grainings and different degrees of gloss possible. Figure 2 shows the results of the gloss measurement at an angle of 60° (gloss 60). As a ...