NEW ARNITE® XL PBT, SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR AUTOMOTIVE HEADLAMP BEZELS, NOW AVAILABLE FROM DSM ENGINEERING PLASTICS

DSM Engineering Plastics has released Arnite® XL, a new grade of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) designed for automotive lamp bezel applications. Arnite® XL offers high strength and stiffness, excellent flow and the ability to consolidate material usage. More importantly, Arnite® XL offers exceptional resistance to outgassing at high temperatures, dimensional stability, and the capability to be vacuum-metallized without painting.

“Arnite® XL emerged from a collaboration with customers to develop a material that flows well, has high temperature resistance and dimensional stability, and resists lamp fogging,” said Robert Evans, General Product Manager – Arnite® for DSM Engineering Plastics. “Where customers have traditionally had unique application requirements for Polycarbonate, Polyamide 6/6 and PBT, they can now consolidate their demand into one grade, Arnite® XL, which meets all of their combined requirements.”

Arnite® XL has good mould flow properties, allowing designers great freedom for designing deep ribs, mounting tabs, and other sharply defined geometric part attributes. Arnite® XL compliments a broad range of Arnite® PBT and PET formulations from DSM Engineering Plastics. Arnite® grades are used in a wide variety of Automotive Electrical and Electronic applications such as ignition components, fuse boxes, lighting enclosures, door handles, electric motor covers, gear housings and electrical connectors to name only a few.