This includes highlighting the company’s new Hammerhead™ FR Flame Retardant Composite Panels, an industry-first, patent-pending thermoplastic composite sandwich structure featuring integrated flame retardance that can eliminate the need for additional FR sheets or coatings. In addition to Hammerhead™ FR panels, Avient will showcase technologies that offer high strength, weight reduction, and durability for a wide range of industries and markets, including:  Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™.

Engineered Polymer Formulations , Polymer Additives | Electrical + Electronics In addition, they are costly to manufacture, which makes them economically unfeasible for use in low-cost computers. In addition, Avient’s global presence supported the manufacturer’s needs across the globe, saving time and money while ensuring quality, consistency and reliability.

We do this by continuously improving our offerings with additional resources aimed at improving customer success.”  OnCap™ Anti-Fog Additive: offers transparency and fog prevention for food packaging film and lets product freshness and quality shine through. LactraSX is the only commercially available fully light-blocking white additive to be compliant with the latest Chinese Food Approval standards (GB).

In addition, samples exposed to high humidity for seven days at 85°C and 85% relative humidity showed limited loss of color, suggesting that these colorants can be used in high-humidity environments. Cautionary orange is a widely used color as a warning of potential safety hazards and is a preferred choice for automotive manufacturers to distinguish high-voltage power connectors and cables in electric vehicles from other parts,” said Bob Lee, General Manager, Color and Additives Greater China at Avient. Additional functions like laser marking and custom colorants for other EV applications are also available based on the customer’s requests.  

Avient’s range of medical-grade polymers, colorants, and additives can enhance the safety and effectiveness of these devices while helping manufacturers mitigate risks when bringing products to market. Healthcare Additives Formulated with pre-tested raw materials, this range of additives helps enhance the performance and functionality of plastics used in medical devices and pharmaceutical packaging and mitigate the risk of non-compliance.

Reducing melt fracture, also known as sharkskin, has the additional benefit of improving optical properties and providing a higher-quality product appearance.   Our new Cesa processing aid helps to improve productivity and process stability for film or sheet extrusion, pipe extrusion, or extrusion blow molding,” said Mayendran Pillay, Marketing Director, Color & Additives North America at Avient. At the show, Sean Bernhardt, Senior Research and Development Manager, Color, Additives, & Inks, Americas at Avient, is presenting “PFAS Alternatives: 2024  and Beyond,” including the Cesa Non-PFAS Process Aid, on May 7 at 3 p.m. and May 8 at 1 p.m.

Additives, such as melt flow modifiers, can be used to recover the loss of physical properties and aesthetics when applying PCR resins   Consider additives that help manage recrystallization and cooling in the tooling   Use additive and process technologies to manage odors

Additives providing better protection of light-sensitive products. Additives providing better protection of light-sensitive products. Mevopur™ Healthcare Functional Additives

In addition, the deep black masterbatches are suitable for spin-dyeing recycled grades of polyester. You can learn more about the deep black color concentrates here or about our other color and additive solutions for spun-dyed fibers in our brochure. Learn more about spin-dyeing technology, its advantages, and our color and additives portfolio.

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