Daplen - PP - Borealis AG

Kunststoffe international, Easier to Reach the Destination
...to 20 % or more filler, yet today’s materials may contain 10 % or less. To use the example of door cladding materials, which nowadays can boast densities lower than 1 g/cm3. One material solution used to achieve this is Daplen EE001AI, a highly impact-re‧sistant PP compound providing very good surface aesthetics and scratch resistance – and a density of only 0.95 g/cm3. Above and beyond its pleasing aesthetics, Daplen EE001A1 also fulfils other demands placed on interior materials. It meets the...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, General-purpose Plastics: Appearance Ever More Important
...lcum. Stamax from Sabic is a PP with long glass fibre reinforcement intended for automotive front ends. The VW Golf and Smart ForFour are benefiting from its low weight. Borealis has developed two new "zero gap tolerance" grades of Daplen especially for the BMW 1 series. These are thermoplastic polyolefins which ensure that only extremely small gaps develop between different parts, such as bumpers and the bodywork. This requires a material with a high dimensional stability even with la...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Submicron and Nano
...the case of highly select fillers that have a large aspect ratio or extremely small particle sizes or both. Thus, micronized fillers are being used for bumper compounds with "zero-gap" function (title picture; photograph: Borealis; material: Daplen MB 441). Completely new business fields have opened up for fillers in the PE sector. It used to be that fillers were only used in certain special cases, e. g., agricultural film and antiblocking applications. It has recently been shown that th...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-01-22, Extended Product Range
...astic films (stretch films) and stretch hood packaging with high resilience. Their properties include good toughness and flexibility coupled with gloss and transparency and compatibility with polyethylene and polypropylene. Low-emission, easyflowing Daplen PP compounds from Borealis offer the low emission required for automotive interior applications (e.g. door cladding, pillar trim and boot linings). Other recent additions to the portfolio of Borealis polyolefins supplied by Resin Express inclu...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-09-19, Flexible with High Loadbearing Capacity
...ions. Attractive and Scratch-resistant A new single-material concept from Borealis of Linz, Austria, has enabled DaimlerChrysler to create a high-quality interior for its new Mercedes C class (Fig.2). The thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer (TPO) Daplen EE188HP is used for all visible injection molded interior trim parts of the C class interior, replacing the need for several polymers to deliver the desired design concept. This offers many advantages both to OEMs and processors. The talc-filled...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-12-17, Logistics and Know-how Rule the Market
... respect of transparency and impact resistance, they are extraordinarily tasteless and odorless. The first product mentioned has a 100 melt index, allowing the manufacturer to injection mold even complex shapes quickly and economically. Daplen ED230HP polypropylene, developed by Borealis, is a material that is suited for exterior use in automobiles. At the K show, the enterprise introduced a body for a Smart fortwo, being the first car body to be made of PP, entirely (Fig. 1). For the Iveco Stra...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Raising the Standards
...e made on the materials in America, Asia and Europe. The properties in the case of the bumpers for the delta platform in the GM Group include toughness and rigidity, high surface quality and paintability, as well as shrink properties. With Daplen EF209AE, Borealis has developed a material meeting these demands in close cooperation with the GM tier 1 supplier, Plastic Omnium. The 20 % mineral-filled, elastomermodified PP has very good flow properties, thus enabling short cycle times to be achieve...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
...rds lightweight construction and electric vehicles by providing solutions for car-body parts. Thus, the Smart fortwo is the first commercial vehicle with car-body parts made entirely of PP compounds. For this purpose, Borealis developed Daplen ED230HP, a thermoplastic polyolefin composite (TPO), which facilitates costeffective production goals and meets requirements in respect of aesthetics, safety and ecofriendliness. Daplen ED230HP replaces a (PC+PBT) blend, a material traditionally used for b...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Polypropylene (PP)
...ecycled in the EU in 2008. Borealis Polyolefine GmbH, Linz, Austria, is now using post-consumer recyclate (PCR) in compounds for technical applications and extending the lifecycle of the relevant products significantly in so doing. The Daplen PCR portfolio comprises, as a first step, three innovative materials that all combine high quality with improved sustainability:Daplen ME225SY consists of 25 % PCR, 20 % mineral content, and 55 % virgin material and is intended for applications in vehicle...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-03-08, So the Paint never Comes off
...ed application of the system described, the material, process, and paint can be suitably tailored to each other. This results in significantly more robust and efficient painting systems. A good example of the new primerless paintable material is Daplen EE112AE, a mineral-reinforced PP compound for automotive applications. This compound has a much lower density than comparable material solutions and meets the highest requirements in terms of processability, mechanical properties, and paint adhesi...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Polypropylene (PP)
...inued high stiffness/toughness ratio, they reduce the vehicle weight and have very high purity and outstanding surface aesthetics. Typical examples of these new lightweight compounds for visible applications are, for example, Daplen EG107HP, Daplen EF098HP and Daplen EE001AI from Borealis .A further new development in vehicles, which could be achieved with tailored polymers, are fewer paint coats, motivated by the reduced manufacturing complexity and reduced costs, as well as the lower overall w...