24 Apr 2008
DSM launches Arnite® TV4 260SXF: a special UL94 V0 PBT grade
DSM Engineering Plastics launches Arnite® TV4 260SXF, a special grade meant to cater to the advanced needs of the electrical industry. This grade is specially targeted for thin walled insulating components such as relays and bobbins. Arnite TV4 260SXF is a special PBT grade which is UL94 V0 at 0.4mm and has a CTI rating of 300 V.
Qian Hai Bin, Product Manager – Arnite, DSM Engineering Plastics Asia Pacific: “The trend towards miniaturization and system cost reductions is bringing component producers to challenge materials to its extreme. This grade is targeted at applications where the need to go smaller is ever increasing. Arnite allows designers to design thin walled components, as low as 0.4mm, and still qualify in its flammability ratings. Further, even under these flammability ratings Arnite has a high CTI rating of 300V making it an excellent offering for current carrying applications.”
Qian Hai Bin further elaborates: “This grade offers very good flow, even at low wall thicknesses allowing for high productivity through multi-cavity molds, with minimal warpage and no flash. It also offers very good surface finish. This grade is being tried at a few select manufacturers and we have got extremely favorable feedback from them. The commercialization of this grade is being planned shortly.”
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DSM Engineering Plastics
DSM Engineering Plastics is a Business Group in the performance materials cluster of DSM, with sales in 2007 of EUR 1068 million (which number includes the sales of DSM Dyneema) and approximately 1500 employees worldwide. It is one of the world's leading suppliers of engineering thermoplastics offering a broad portfolio of high performance products including Stanyl® high performance polyamide and Akulon® 6 and 66 polyamides, Arnitel® TPE-E, Arnite® PBT and PET polyesters, Xantar® polycarbonate, Yparex® extrudable adhesive resins. These materials are used in technical components for electrical appliances, electronic equipment and cars, in barrier packaging films as well as in many mechanical and extrusion applications. With Stanyl®, it is the global market leader in high heat polyamides.
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