Styrenics

Styrenic polymers in their pure form and modified with rubber, suitable for injection moulding and extrusion.

Available in the following grades:

Crystal clear.
Impact-resistant:

• special grades;
• flame retardant grades.

Properties

Very easy processability.
Good mechanical and thermal properties.
High transparency and colour stability.
Resistance to chemical agents.
Food contact suitability.

Application fields

• Food packaging and disposables
• Large and small appliances
• Electrical & electronics
• Housewares and small appliances
• Toys, musical instruments and medicals
• Stationery and sport/leisure
• Building insulation 

Expandable polystyrene.
Also available in the following grades:

Flame retardant.
Special grades for specific applications.

Properties

Lightness.
High thermal insulation co-efficient.
High mechanical resistance.
Excellent processability.

Application fields

• Industrial and food packaging
• Building insulation
• Technical moulding, safety and sporting equipment
• Models for "lost foam" technology
• Seed trays
• Civil construction and soil lightening

Extir CM is the new expandable product range produced with the new Continuous Mass technology. All the products have a very low dimensional dispersion and a reduced content of blowing agent. Extir CM does not contain CFC or HCFC.

Extir CM range products are available in standard and fire-retarded version. Bead size distribution is narrow, the average diameter is around 1 mm. Suitable for blocks or high thickness molded items production with improved thermal insulation, in building sector. The range comprises products in the grey color, with top thermal insulation and light grey products which optimize cost-performance balance and sun-resistant application.

Applications

• Outdoor wall insulation (ETICS)
• Plasterboard/EPS panel (doublage)
• Cavity wall insulation
• Floor insulation board
• Pitched roof insulation
• Floor insulation elements

Styrene-based thermoplastic alloys for extrusion and thermoforming.
Available in the following types:

Koblend® P (polystyrene/polyethylene alloy).

Properties

Very high chemical and stress-cracking resistance.
Good-impact strength.
Very high processability.
Food contact suitability.
Compatible with polystyrene and polyolefins.

Application fields

• Refrigerators
• Industrial and food packaging
• Automotive

ABS is a heterophase copolymer in wich there is a rubber phase, based upon polybutadiene elastomer, dispersed in a continuous matrix of styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN). Suitable for injection moulding extrusion and coextrusion.

Properties

 - Excellent toughness even at low temperatures
 - High mechanical strenght, rigidity and excellent dimensional stability.
 - High surface gloss
 - Good  chemical, scratch  and stress-cracking resistance
 - Excellent processability

Main applications

• Households  small and large appliances
• Vacuum cleaner
• Electrical components for civil and industrial applications
• Tiles moulds
• Automotive industry for interiors(estruded profiles trims) and external parts (grilles, rear wiew mirrors)
• Toys
• Consumer electronics
• Extrusion and coextrusion of industrial sheets
• Furnishing profiles

Styrene Acrylonitrile copolymer, suitable for  injection moulding, extrusion and blow moulding.

Properties

 - High transparency
 - Rigidity and hardness
 - Chemical resistance
 - Dimensional stability
 - Colour brilliance
 - Low level of residual monomers

Main applications

• Households  and small appliances  
• Refrigerators  clear components 
• Cosmetics packaging 
• Medical and pharmaceutical items
• Copier, printer  and fax components
• Lighting
• Bathroom furnishing
• Caterings cups and trays
• Stationery
• Toys
• Displays for point of sales