Styroflex - SBS - INEOS Styrolution

Kunststoffe international, Diverse Shapes and Applications
... option for future applications. StyLight combines exceptional light weight with stiffness, aesthetics, processability and stability. Styrencs specialty polymers can also be found in the healthcare 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 ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Demand Continues to Rise: Polystyrene (PS)
...rther is possible if a mixture of the two thermoplastics polystyrene and SBS is further supplemented with a thermoplastic elastomer that likewise consists of styrene and butadiene. BASF manufactures such an S-TPE under the trade name Styroflex. Mixtures with PS/SBS or HIPS again lend this polymer a further toughness increase that is advantageous particularly for applications at low temperatures (example: ice packing). Instruments for Ecology and Toxicology Polystyrene has become generally accep...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Elastomers: Flexible and Customised
...ass (Epurex Films). Current developments in TPE packaging film are aimed at high resilience combined with low density. Further reduction in fisheye count has opened up new opportunities for 10mm styrene-butadiene stretch films (Styroflex 2G 66, BASF). By coextrusion with this TPE-S, conventional PE films acquire similar resilience to PVC. An aliphatic TPE-U with high flexibility and good low-temperature impact strength does not yellow, even after prolonged exposure to sunlight. When used for sn...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, General-purpose Plastics: Appearance Ever More Important
...adiene are intended primarily for packaging materials. In the case of Styrolux, BASF has come up with the particularly clear and tough variant 3G 33 (Fig.5). This product also provides crystal-clear transparency when mixed with GPPS. With Styroflex – which is used especially for stretchable packaging film – the second product generation is now available in the form of 2G 66, which is particularly tough and has an unusually high resilience (Fig.6). Very thin, tear-resistant stretch films constitu...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polystyrene (PS)
... and water vapour. An abundance of custom-made packaging foils were developed further using co-extrusion composites with barrier plastics (PE, EVOH, PETG), which take into account the trend toward packaging fresh food in modified atmospheres (MAP). Styroflex (manufacturer: BASF) with the characteristics of a thermoplastic elastomer (S-TPE) has already been presented as a new development in the area of anionic block copolymers. As an additional component in transparent SBS/PS mixtures as well as...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Styrene Polymers
... 7). The authors of this article Dr. Norbert Nießner, born in1963, is head of commercial/technical product management for ABS and SAN at BASF AG, Ludwigshafen. Dr. Ulrike Breiner, born in1969, is responsible for product development of Styrolux and Styroflex at BASF AG, Ludwigshafen. Dr. Achim Grefenstein (doctor of engineering and private university lecturer), born in 1965, is the project head for the PFM system at BASF AG, Ludwigshafen. Fig. 2. Toughness and heat deflection resistance of therm...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Styrene-butadiene Block Copolymers: Combining Haptics and Design
...esign. Transparency embodies aesthetics all of its own and is particularly conducive to highlighting design effects. The transparent rigid/flexible combinations that BASF is currently developing on the basis of the styrene-butadiene block copolymer, Styroflex, could soon considerably expand the field of use for transparent plastics. To date, this block copolymer has been used as a high-performance additive to enhance adhesion to polar polymers such as PS, ABS or PET in non-transparent applicatio...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Designer Products Based on a Modular Approach
...e field in which many new developments have recently become ready to market. At the same time – and perhaps for related reasons – BASF is also celebrating two anniversaries in this field: 20 years of Styrolux in Antwerp, Belgium, and 15 years of Styroflex. The SB block copolymer Styrolux was first produced on a commercial scale about 30 years ago in Ludwigshafen, Germany. In 1990, barely ten years later, a second production facility was built in Antwerp, In 2004, an additional production facilit...

Kunststoffe international, 2010-09-24, Raising the Standards
...dispensable in the transport world today. Improvement potentials for a wooden Euro pallet are the weight, the washability and the slip resistance. A new plastic pallet developed by the Hirsch Group in Austria (Fig. 2) combines these benefits using Styroflex 2G66. An EPS core is sheathed with a twocoat film using Styroflex 2G66 as toughness modifier. This HIPS film (high-impact polystyrene) reduces the susceptibility to cracking in the environmental stress crack resistance test, ensures good wash...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-02-22, Greater Transparency
...as disposable razors, filter housings and connectors of free-flowing NAS SMMA (styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer). The copolymer must not be predried before injection molding, infusion and collecting bags and medical hoses i.e. of Styroflex, a styrene-based, plasticizer-free thermoplastic elastomer with a soft inner styrene-butadiene rubber block. Styroflex combines high resistance to polar media with outstanding strength and tear and perforation resistance. A typical feature of most healthca...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-10-10, Styrene Copolymers
...s will exploit the market potential of these specialty copolymers while opening up further innovations that will support disproportionately high growth. Styrene-Butadiene Copolymer (SBC)Styrolux, an impact-resistant and crystal clear SBC, and Styroflex, an equally transparent thermoplastic elastomer, are produced by Styrolution in world-scale production facilities in Europe and America. SBC polymers are still almost exclusively blended with commodity polystyrene primarily intended for transparen...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-11-23, Tailor-Made for Special Cases
... tubing, drip chambers and other medical products is still intact and is driving numerous new developments in the market for SBC-based plastics and blends [1]. The chief beneficiaries of this replacement are the soft, thermoplastic elastomers, e. g. Styroflex (S-B/S-S, made by Styrolution Group GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany), and the hydrogenated styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) resins.The primary properties of Styroflex, namely its good resilience, low Shore hardness and ease of extr...

Kunststoffe international, 2016-10-17, Styrene Copolymers
...he packaging sector that still has attractive growth potential.Since SBC can be produced anionically with extremely low residual monomer levels, manufacturers of high quality floor coverings are now starting to use this alternative. The Styrolux and Styroflex brands from Ineos Styrolution substitute radical-polymerized SBR grades with minimized odor and emissions here. SBC-based materials have been refined further for medical devices, especially drip chambers as well as pouches and tubing. In te...