Ronfalin - ABS, ABS+PMMA, ASA, SAN - LyondellBasell Industries

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Colourfast Window Profiles
...ant non-impact-modified representatives are styrene acrylonitrile copolymers (SAN; type: Luran, manufacturer: BASF). Through the addition of graft rubbers to SAN, we get, depending on the type of rubber component used, either ABS (type: Terluran and Ronfalin, manufacturer: BASF) or ASA (type: Luran S, manufacturer: BASF) [1]. Impact modification with graft rubbers based on butadiene results in ABS, while the use of acrylic ester rubbers leads to ASA. The relevant specific properties will depend ...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Market and Concept: Self-colouring of ABS
...nsively – manufactured in world-scale plants. In Europe, too, there is plenty of evidence that the range of ABS specialities is declining: GE Plastics closed a facility in Amsterdam in 2002, BASF sold its business with the ABS speciality Ronfalin a few weeks ago and, at the same time, the capacities for standard ABS are being increased. Dow, for example, extended its ABS facility in Terneuzen/Netherlands, by 75000t at the end of 2002. ABS customers are also benefiting from these structural chang...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Structural Change: Styrene Copolymers (ABS, ASA, SAN and their Relatives)
...stomised colours by the industry. There is plenty of evidence in Europe of how the range of ABS specialties is decreasing. GE Advanced Materials (then still GE Plastics) closed a facility in Amsterdam in 2002 [1], and BASF has sold its Ronfalin business – an ABS brand previously acquired from DSM. Whereas factory-coloured ABS products last year covered about two thirds of total European demand, and natural-coloured products only around 35%, this ratio will be reversed in only a few years. Uncolo...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Styrene Copolymers (ABS, ASA, SAN)
...which does not market SAN, all companies manufacture both ABS/ASA and SAN. The products' trade names have not changed since the 1998 survey (Table 2) [1]. Even after BASF's takeover of the styrene copolymer business from DSM, the brand name Ronfalin will continue. In ABS blends, seven different products from four manufacturers are significant on the market (Table 2). Blends with PC include Terblend S (BASF), Bayblend (Bayer), Pulse (Dow) and Cycoloy and Geloy (GE Plastics). (PA+ABS) blen...