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Blendable melt-processible elastomers enhance performance properties.


The company's complete line of melt-processible elastomers (MPEs) is said to enhance performance properties when blended with a wide range of commodity and engineered polymers.

Blending MPEs is said to offer significant benefits, including stronger physical property performance in key areas such as flexibility, tactile feel, coefficient of friction coefficient of friction
n. pl. coefficients of friction
The ratio of the force that maintains contact between an object and a surface and the frictional force that resists the motion of the object.
 or enhanced processing ease. Adding MPEs, often in small amounts, is said to improve the end product, creating a powerful competitive advantage without radical formulation changes and without a spike in costs, according to according to
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 the company.

The company manufactures a full line of MPEs, including DuraGrip TPE TPE Thermoplastic Elastomer
TPE Terminal de Paiement Electronique (French)
TPE Total Power Exchange
TPE Twisted Pair Ethernet
TPE Tampines Expressway (Singapore)
TPE Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
 and Alcryn melt processible rubber (MPR (MultiProtocol Router) Software from Novell that provides router capabilities for its NetWare servers. It supports IPX, IP, AppleTalk and OSI protocols as well as all the major LANs and WANs. ), for products in the automotive, industrial, home and garden, sports and leisure, wire and cable and personal care industries. The materials are said to offer benefits that include enhanced coloring, ease of processing, soft touch and longer durability through strong chemical and weather resistance.

DuraGrip TPE is said to be a versatile material that enhances consumer or light industrial products through its elastomeric properties and features, including, when needed, a soft-touch feel. The DuraGrip TPE 6000 and 6300 grades are said to bond well to polypropylene and polyethylene, while the UV-stable DuraGrip TPE 6100 series bonds to engineered thermoplastic materials thermoplastic materials

materials used in making casts for broken limbs. Malleable when warmed in hot water or heated with a hairdrier, very quick setting and very strong, e.g. Hexcelite.
, including difficult-to-overmold nylon substrates, according to the company. The High-performance DuraGrip TPE 6200 series is said to offer excellent elastomeric properties, as well as extrusion capability.

Alcryn MPR is said to provide the ergonomic ergonomic - Concerning ergonomics or exhibitting good ergonimics.  and performance qualities of rubber with superior oil resistance, toughness and weather resistance. When compared to TPEs and many vulcanized rubbers, Alcryn MPR is said to outperform in durability, coefficient of friction and resistance to abrasion abrasion /abra·sion/ (ah-bra´zhun)
1. a rubbing or scraping off through unusual or abnormal action; see also planing.

2. a rubbed or scraped area on skin or mucous membrane.
, chemicals, oils, fuels, etc.

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Publication:Rubber World
Date:Jun 22, 2006
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