The project, led by Spain’s Aimplas Plastics Technology Centre, is developing automotive components, packaging, and ...

A lightweight multi-functional crankshaft cover in molded from a bio-based polyamide (PA) 410 has been adopted by the latest generation of diesel engines developed by the Volkswagen Group. The EcoPaXX ...

image: Polyamide (PA) 6 is widely used in several industries and therefore economically very important. In its current industrial production process, first KA oil (a mixture of cyclohexanol and ...

For advanced metal replacement in structural parts, BASF is now offering a portfolio of polyamide (PA) and polyphthalamide (PPA) blends with better, more constant mechanical properties than PA66, ...

These components are oligomers. They are composed of a few similar molecules of simple plastic building blocks made of specific starting chemicals. They are formed unintentionally during the ...

Alexander Radeck, applications developer in the Lanxess High Performance Materials (HPM) business unit explains: “In terms of properties and processing, our new materials are on par with, or even ...

European chemicals firm says it is creating 100 percent recycled-content polyamide from what it calls preconsumer scrap. Solvay says engineering plastics applications in the automotive, small ...