Ultrason E - PESU - BASF SE

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, High-performance Polymers: Metal Substitution and Miniaturisation
...al materials such as gold-plated stainless steel or aluminium. Its advantage is that manufacturing costs are halved. PES instead of Glass BASF is also looking forward to great future potential. In three to five years, the Ultrason E film should have superseded glass as the conventional carrier material for liquid crystal displays (LCD), and permit flexible monitors that can be rolled up (Fig.5). This freedom of design is provided by the interplay of high glass transition temperature (220°C), e...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Polyarylsulphones (PSU, PPSU, PES)
...hemical and Gharda Chemicals serve predominantly the Asian market. All suppliers have taken account of the growing market with announcements of production capacity increases. In 2002, BASF Aktiengesellschaft will increase its production capacity of Ultrason E (PES) and S (PSU) to altogether 5000 tonnes per year. For this polymer class the areas of application can be allocated approximately as follows: electrical engineering/electronics 30%, medical technology 15%, household goods/food technology...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Trends in Automotive Headlamps
...orn in 1957, heads the Reflection & Protection business unit at Leybold Optics GmbH, Alzenau Contact: info@leyboldoptics.com Fig.1A. Headlamps: front – constructed of a clear cover, lighting unit (reflector of metallised Ultrason E, lamps) and housing; rear – installed headlamp, constructed of semi-ribbed glass, cover (metallised UltradurB4520), lighting unit and housing Fig.1B. Fog lamp: constructed of a clear cover glass, lighting unit and housing (UltrasonE) Fig.2. Heat deflection temperatur...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-09-19, For High-End Applications
... by BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany, to widen the scope of application for PESU (polyether sulfone) in headlamp applications. Headlamp housings are usually produced from black, i.e. heat-absorbing plastics. Their disadvantage is heat build-up. Ultrason E 2010 MR black HM counters this problem by acting as a kind of air conditioning element. Thanks to an ingenious pigment system, it absorbs less heat and so reduces the heating effect. Besides heat resistance and low emission, the flowability of th...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-02-29, The Right Symbiosis
...ur). The stringent requirements are met by three new BASF products from these two classes of material presented below. Two new products made from Ultrason high-performance plastic for reflectors greatly extend the scope for using PESU in headlights: Ultrason E 2010 MR Black HM for improved heat management and Ultrason E 2010 MR HP, a PESU blend that has been optimized for toughness and processing. Ultradur 4560, designed specifically for headlight bezels, taps into an application area for a high...

Kunststoffe international, 2008-10-17, Polyarylsulfones (PSU, PESU, PPSU)
...reinforcement. A crucial factor was that the material possesses outstanding tribological properties due to its 10 % graphite and PTFE content. The potential offered by carbonfiber-reinforced polyethersulfones, which include products such as Ultrason E 2010 C6 with 30 % fiber, is far from exhausted: In certain applications they can even compete with metals in terms of thermal expansion – up to temperatures of around 200°C. This example shows that polyarylsulfones, unlike other polymers, are not c...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Polyarylsulfones (PSU, PESU, PPSU)
...regulating pistons or oil pumps (Fig. 3) are only made possible by the continuous development of amorphous HT thermoplastics. Such parts are suitably made of BASF’s carbon fiber-reinforced PESU, which soon will be incorporated into its range as Ultrason E 2010 C2 TR, not only because of its dimensional stability. Another principal reason is that – compared with its predecessor Ultrason KR 4113 – the material has further improved tribological properties. Carbon fiber-reinforced polyethersulfones ...