Xiran - SMAH - Polyscope Polymers

Kunststoffe international, 2010-08-19, Environmental Awareness as a Business Plan
...dustry. Instrument panel carriers, ventilation ducts, registers and trim moldings are among the major applications. In addition, the company considers the electrical and electronics fields as being decisive growth markets. Under the brand name Xiran, Polyscope produces functional additives and copolymers based on styrenemaleic acid anhydride (SMA). The current product line contains standard grades as well as extra-rigid glass fiber-reinforced grades. As an additive to amorphous plastics, the mat...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-08-19, The Customer Shall be King
... can be found, for instance, in consoles, gratings, dashboards as well as frames for sunroofs (Fig. 3). For the latter, the Citroen DS 3 convertible features a new application. Made of styrene maleic acid anhydride copolymers (SMA) (Xiran), this large-surface sunroof frame extends from the car’s roof down over its rear. Its low tendency to warpage and shrinkage make the material excellently suited for this outstanding application. To produce this frame, a continuous polymerization facility was a...

Kunststoffe international, 2018-09-19, Plastics for the Mobility of Tomorrow
...rs with carbodiimide crosslinking [2] or 1-component IMCs as practiced by BMW AG get along with permanent crosslinking agents on the mold surface ("Galvano") for the most part. New Alternatives among ThermoplasticsUnder the brand name Xiran [3], Polyscope Polymers B. V. of Geleen, Netherlands, develops and sells copolymers from styrene and maleic acid anhydride (SMA). At the end of the 1990s, these polymers replaced the previously dominant PC+ABS blends as carrier material for instrument panels ...