Thermoplastic Elastomers offer alternative to thermoplastic vulcanizates.
Press Release Summary:
Available in numerous stock grades, StarPrene® TPEs are suitable for automotive parts, appliances, electrical products, healthcare and packaging goods, and construction components. Products offer optimal flexibility and colorability as well as resistance to many acids, bases, and aqueous solutions. Suited for injection molding and extrusion, StarPrene TPEs meet European food standards and do not require drying.
Original Press Release:
Star Thermoplastics Introduces New TPV Replacement Line
StarPrene® TPEs Better Performing Than TPVs, at Better Pricing Levels
BROADVIEW (CHICAGO), IL - Star Thermoplastics has introduced the firm's newest elastomer offering - a line of TPEs (thermoplastic elastomers) that mold and perform better than TPVs (thermoplastic vulcanizates - EPDM rubber and polypropylene) and are more competitively priced. They are being sold under the StarPrene® trade name.
Star Thermoplastics, a Division of Star Thermoplastic Alloys & Rubbers Inc. (founded in 1993), a Chicago-based TPE producer, arguably is the first TPE producer to offer standard and custom TPE grades that are comparable to competitive TPVs, but at better pricing levels.. Also, with their expansive rheology and analytical instrumentation laboratory facilities, Star is able to duplicate any existing TPE, and now TPVs with equivalent or improved TPE formulations.
Advantages of StarPrene TPEs as compared to TPVs include:
o Similar flow characteristics with the same rheology
o High flow versions available
o Easier to color and more consistent colors
o Better tensile strength and elongation
o No need to dry the material before processing
The new family of StarPrene TPEs is available in numerous stock grades AND Star can clone or provide formulations which duplicate any competitive grade of TPV, at better pricing levels. Applications for consumer and industrial products include, but needn't be limited to automotive parts, appliances, electrical products, healthcare and packaging goods and construction components.
Advantages of using grades from the StarPrene line range from excellent flexibility and colorability, resistance to many acids, bases and aqueous solutions and various processing options which include injection molding and extrusion. More high flow formulations are available from the StarPrene family than with TPVs. StarPrene TPEs also meet European food standards and do not require drying.
Grades are available in both small and large quantities, with samples provided upon request.
Star Thermoplastics, founded in 1993, is a leading provider of thermoplastic elastomers with many production lines to fill both large and small orders, a full-service rheological and analytical instrumentation laboratory and trained sales and technical support personnel across the continent. Company products are sold under the trade names Starflex, StarMediflex, StarTuff, StarExtrude, StarBond, StarClear, and StarGrip-X. With its newly enhanced rheological and analytical instrumentation laboratories, Star has the ability to duplicate any existing TPE with improved formulations at better prices.
For more information on the new TPE line of StarPrene TPEs to replace TPVs, contact: Star Thermoplastics, 2121 West 21st Street, Broadview, IL 60155. Tel: 708-343-1100. Fax: 708-343-1110. Web: www.starthermoplastics.com. Email: sales@starthermoplastics.com.
