TAGS: Flame Retardants Sustainability / Natural Solutions K Show 2022
Clariant to display additive solutions to support plastics in meeting key e-mobility challenges at K 2022, as the automotive industry seeks to safely extend battery range and charging performance, achieve significant materials reuse and recycling, and decrease carbon footprint (Hall 8a Booth J11).
Support for sustainable e-mobility plastics includes new applications for Clariant’s trusted halogen-free flame retardants in polyamide and thermoplastic material-based solutions, with ISCC Plus certified renewable raw materials-based options now also available to lower fossil carbon dependency and improve product CO2 emissions. These belong to the “Terra” family of certified products that offer like-for-like drop-in alternatives to manufacturers.
Halogen-free FR for Lower GHG-emitting Materials
Manufacturers of high voltage connectors, busbars or battery housings can now use a new Terra version of
Exolit® OP 1400, Clariant’s patent-protected, widely-used halogen-free flame retardant for polyamides, to help achieve industry goals towards faster charging and lower greenhouse gas-emitting materials.
Exolit® OP Terra enables polyamide materials to pass strict fire safety standards like Underwriters’ Laboratories (UL) 94 V0 in combination with the comparative tracking index (CTI) of 600V according to IEC 60112 / ASTMD 3638 standards.
The EcoTain® certified Exolit® OP solutions produced at Clariant’s ISCC PLUS certified site in Knapsack, Germany are available as mass-balance certified products. Like their fossil carbon-based counterparts, the Terra grades have little impact on recyclability of the material and therefore technically support proper automotive waste management with the added benefit of reduced CO
2 footprint.
Clariant is currently constructing a new production facility in Daya Bay, China, to meet rapidly growing demand from e-mobility and the E&E component and equipment industries in China and Asia.
Achieving Stringent Fire Safety Standards
Halogen-free Exolit® AP flame retardants are advancing the shift from metal to low density, high strength thermoset composites to achieve significantly lighter battery housings capable of meeting the stringent fire safety standards of electric vehicles. Batteries need special protection in the event of a vehicle fire or thermal run-away of the electrical cells.
Clariant offers three grades -
Exolit® AP 462,
Exolit® AP 740 and
Exolit® AP 742 - that enable epoxy or unsaturated polyester-based composites to comply with flame retardant standards of ECE R100 and GB 38031-2020. In addition, Clariant is to be part of the 3-year EU-funded Revolution Project, aimed at developing
lightweight car parts and increasing circularity by facilitating the recycling of materials and use of recycled polymers.
The additives’ team is helping to validate and develop solutions that push plastic materials beyond current performance and sustainability boundaries and help to meet minimum recycling targets for plastics components in vehicles as expected in the upcoming EU legislation. Solutions from Clariant include additives for maintaining high quality polymer recyclate and for increasing recycled content in finished
lightweight recyclable parts.
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Source: Clariant