Terlux - MABS - INEOS Styrolution

Kunststoffe international, Diverse Shapes and Applications
...e industry (Fig. 2). Styroflex 4G80 paved the way towards a full-styrenics IV. Together with medical technology providers, the company works on the next generation of drip chambers, e. g. based on Styrolux 4G60. Terlux and Zylar are excellent materials for Luer locks and IV connectors. These materials exhibit excellent transparency, good mechanical strength and stiffness and excellent chemical resistance/good environmental stress cracking resistance (ESCR) and bonding performance. In addition, t...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Plastic, the All-purpose Material: Function in Form
...akes the headlamp covers and smoke-topaz windows for the children’s ICE from a transparent acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer (MABS) with the trade name Terlux from BASF. This plastic meets all the specifications for a plastic for children’s toys. It allows attractive designs and tolerates rough handling. Even more than with the BIG-ICE, the plastic’s transparency is evident in the latest toy cars. The glossy headlamp covers are eye catching in the BIG Porsche Baby Boxter (Fig. 13) and th...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Styrene Plastics: Wrapping up Beauty in an Attractive Pack
...oad scope of application for plastics, in particular plastics that offer high transparency, a bright surface finish, toughness, stiffness, above-average colour depth, media resistance and ease of processing. One such product is Terlux, a transparent, amorphous thermoplastic based on an MABS (methylmethacrylate/acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene) polymer. Up to a fifth of BASF’s annual Terlux production goes into cosmetic packaging. It is all down to the product’s range of properties. Terlux combine...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Styrene-butadiene Block Copolymers: Combining Haptics and Design
...d functional rigid/flexible combinations. Styroflex as a flexible component thus offers an optimum bond to polystyrene and the SBS, Styrolux, as the rigid component. High peel resistances are also achieved with bonds between Styroflex and the MABS, Terlux, as well as with polycarbonate and PMMA. Good values can also be expected in conjunction with polypropylene, polyethylene, PET and PETG (Table 1). One example of a rigid/flexible composite that has already been implemented is a wiper for showe...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Wide Range of Applications: Styrene Copolymers
...rm. The profit situation, however, remains unsatisfactory, since the significant increases in raw materials prices have also made things difficult for specialties. Transparent styrene copolymers: Transparent styrene copolymer grades such as Terlux, a thermoplastic based on methyl methacrylate, acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene (MABS), are among the newer specialty resins from BASF. This tough material can be processed readily and offers numerous physical benefits. For instance, it combines t...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-01-30, Plastics for Medical Technology: Long Life Ensured
...xactly this, and, with its new technology, provides the patient, the user and the payer with significant advantages compared with competitive systems. The HumiCare 200 uses, among other things, a sophisticated arrangement of sieve-like discs of Terlux 2802 HD, a transparent thermoplastic based on methylmethacrylate, acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene (MABS), which BASF AG added to its range of speciality products in mid-2004 for applications in the fields of healthcare and diagnostics. These ...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-01-30, Transparent Semifinished Goods: Economically Towards High Transparency
...oon be implemented in extrusion as well. A feasibility study shows the way. Egon Erter Christian Bonten As a material for high-quality applications, transparent MABS (methyl methacrylate/acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene polymer) sold under the name Terlux by BASF, Ludwigshafen, offers transparency and toughness combined with impact strength and chemical resistance. MABS owes this unusual combination of properties to its structure. The product combines typical ABS properties with the transparenc...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-01-22, Preserving our Cultural Heritage
... 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 opportunities they offer and the possibilities they open up in terms of production processes and material properties. This has not just happened automatically but is the ...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-09-19, Energy Efficiency Taking on Increasing Importance
...ic components to prevent malfunctions. BASF has recently introduced three new polymer grades for medical technology applications into its range, including a comprehensive service package. The new products include Terlux 2812 HD (Health & Diagnostics) from the family of styrene copolymers and the polyacetals Ultraform S2320 003 PRO and W2320 00 PRO (Profile Covered Raw Materials Only). BASF offers a comprehensive service package in conjunction with these products, including not only application-...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-04-14, Safety Has Priority
...ssing of the plastic products. Established Products in the 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 Phar...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Styrene Copolymers (ABS, ASA, SAN, MABS)
...ssing and approval. A product grade specially developed for this application sector – combined with a service package specifically targeted at this sector – is characterized by a high volume flow index (MVR = 8 cm3/10 min) (Terlux 2812 HD). It permits highly complex transparent parts to be manufactured economically. MABS can be readily processed by all conventional processes. Typical applications, besides medical technology and diagnostics, are transparent packaging...

Kunststoffe international, 2009-02-17, Transparency and Good Service
...an HD is a transparent material to complement BASF’s range of medical plastics, which has consisted of two styrene copolymers and polyoxymethylene up to now. Terluran HD (ABS) offers a very favorable ratio between toughness and rigidity, while Terlux HD (MABS) is outstanding for its combination of transparency and impact resistance. Ultraform PRO (POM) is a technical plastic that can well resist mechanical load and has good properties of slip and friction. Service Package for Medical Technology ...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-02-21, Operation in Hand
...lymer 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 all of the relevant appro...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Styrene Copolymers (ABS, ASA, SAN, MABS, and ABS Blends)
...its good stress cracking resistance; the material scores because of its lower melt viscosity compared to polycarbonate. MABS can be processed in any ABS mold – that, too, is a benefit in times of growing cost pressure. Terlux, the MABS from Styrolution, shows stable growth in, e.g., cosmetics packaging (e.g. dishes and lipstick cases); its most important application field is medical technology. Blends New material developments in pure styrene copolymers are of course becoming ever more difficult...

Kunststoffe international, 2012-07-23, Influence on the Ongrowth Behavior of Tissue Cells
... define possibilities of surface modification which promote a selective ongrowth of fibroblasts on implants. Materials are used for the studies which are generally approved for applications in medical technology, but not as implant materials: MABS Terlux 2812 HD (manufacturer: BASF SE), POM Hostaform MT24U01 (manufacturer: Ticona GmbH), PA 12 Grilamid L20 natural (manufacturer: EMS-Chemie AG). The thermoplastic materials are molded into microstructured test specimens on a micro-injection molding...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-02-22, Greater Transparency
...crylate-butadiene -styrene) (Fig. 2) with particularly transparent and consistent light permeability in contact with blood, impact-resistant, stress cracking-resistant injectors, three-way valves (Fig. 3), connectors and catheters of Terlux HD MABS (methylmethacrylate-acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) with outstanding transparency and surface quality. The good flowability of the material simplifies the design of multi-cavity molds for thin-walled injection moldings, dimensionally stable housings,...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Styrene Copolymers
...ts mechanical properties, and as some application segments are therefore similar, they overlap with the transparent MBS polymers described above. The transparent ABS polymers, which Styrolution, for example, sells under the trade name Terlux, outperform MBS materials in two important properties: resistance to heat and resistance to chemicals, especially greases and oils. MABS has firmly established itself among the preferred materials for numerous medical applications, such as connectors, filter...