TAGS: Innovation in Flame Retardants CHINAPLAS
LANXESS is exhibiting at CHINAPLAS 2021 in Shenzhen from April 13-16, 2021. The business units High Performance Materials (HPM), Polymer Additives (PLA) and Inorganic Pigments (IPG) are showcasing new products, technologies and solutions regarding engineering plastics, flame retardant plastics and plastics coloring.
Safer Polymer Additives
LANXESS exhibits a broad range of additives products, including brominated flame retardants, phosphorus-based flame retardants, eco-friendly plasticizers, and colorant additives. LANXESS PLA offers multiple products for PU and
PVC. Armgard, Levagard, Disflamoll and Reofos are used to manufacture flame retardant products, including insulating materials, cables, printed circuit boards, foil papers, tarpaulins, floor coverings, bases and other fireproof products.
LANXESS also exhibits its solution designed for replacing the flame retardant HBCD. HBCD is included in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and its production and use will be prohibited in China from December 25, 2021. The polymeric macromolecule flame retardant Emerald Innovation 3000 from LANXESS offers an efficient and sustainable replacement for HBCD in EPS and XPS thermal insulation materials used in the construction industry.
The Macrolex solvent dyes of LANXESS feature high thermal stability, excellent light resistance and weather resistance, high coloring intensity, and outstanding brightness and work well for the coloring of amorphous thermoplastic plastics such as polystyrene, polycarbonate, polymethyl methacrylate and polyethylene terephthalate.
The soluble organic dye range Macrolex provides an innovative coloring technique for plastics. They have excellent dyeing properties and machinability, meet high ecological standards, and are widely applied in such fields as coloring of beverage bottles, ink for ink-jet printers and LCD color filters.
Macrolex Orange HT is one of the highlights this year. In e-mobility, orange color as a safety feature is mandatory for high voltage plastic components. The comprehensive properties of Macrolex Orange HT can well serve the needs of safety and performance for electric cars, including excellent heat stability, improved sublimation resistance, high migration stability, high color strength and high light fastness.
Optimized Price–Performance Ratio for Coloring High-temperature Plastics
LANXESS IPG has expanded its Colortherm Yellow pigment range for heat-resistant high-performance plastics. Two new inorganic yellow pigments are now available, namely Colortherm Yellow 5 and Colortherm Yellow 26. They are based on iron oxide and zinc oxide respectively and specially designed for cost-effective coloration in a temperature range of between 220 °C and 260 °C.
With equally high color strength at the same color space, they offer plastics manufacturers and processors an excellent compromise between the best-in-class Colortherm Yellow 20 and Colortherm Yellow 30 products, which are heat stable up to 300 °C.
For reliable yellow coloring of high-temperature polymers, LANXESS offers the modular Colortherm Yellow product range. It comprises the iron oxides the Colortherm Yellow 5 and Colortherm Yellow 20 iron oxides as well as Colortherm Yellow 26, Colortherm Yellow 30 and Colortherm Yellow 3950 zinc ferrites. The range covers not only the color spectrum of light, saturated yellow shades but also orange tones. Plastic formulations can thus be easily realized at processing temperatures of up to 300 °C.
Due to their special manufacturing process, the color strength of the zinc ferrites Colortherm Yellow 26 and Colortherm Yellow 30 is up to 20 percent higher than comparable products. This means a corresponding lower level of pigment addition is required to color the plastic.
Source: LANXESS