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Hydrogenated styrenic thermoplastic elastomer
Tuftec™, S.O.E.™
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Various properties can be enhanced by adding Tuftec™ and S.O.E.™ to the compounds designed for different types of molding. These are additives suitable for improving key properties such as flexibility, abrasion resistance, soft-touch feeling, etc..
Feature
- Low-temperature impact resistance
- Soft-touch feel and abrasion resistance
- High vibration-damping properties
Usage
- S.O.E.™ for automotive interior skins
- Tuftec™ for engineering plastics and olefinic resin components
As modifiers for resins and elastomer compounds, Tuftec™ and S.O.E.™ can help to achieve the weight reduction and property enhancement of automotive parts.
As modifiers for resins and elastomer compounds, Tuftec™ and S.O.E.™ can help to achieve the weight reduction and property enhancement of automotive parts.
Low-temperature impact resistance
Tuftec™ and S.O.E.™ can provide excellent low-temperature impact resistance for olefinic resins and engineering plastics; therefore they can contribute to the prevention of cracks in automotive parts.
Soft-touch feel and abrasion resistance
Tuftec™ and S.O.E.™ can provide nice, soft-touch feeling and excellent abrasion resistance to elastomer compounds for automotive interior skins.
High vibration-damping properties
Tuftec™ and S.O.E.™ can provide various automotive parts with high vibration-damping properties, which are essential to realize a comfortable vehicle interior space.
Utilizing S.O.E.™ for automotive interior skins
Automotive interior skins are required to have specific properties such as soft- touch feeling, abrasion resistance, and damping properties. Adding S.O.E.™ to elastomer compounds helps to attain those required properties.
Compared with PVC and TPO, S.O.E.™ provides soft-touch feeling and excellent abrasion resistance, which helps to maintain the texture and grain of automotive interior skin for a long period of time.
Compared with conventional thermoplastic elastomers (Tuftec™), S.O.E.™ provides excellent vibration-damping properties, quickly suppressing vibration and contributing to the realization of a comfortable vehicle interior space.
Utilizing Tuftec™ for engineering plastics
Adding Tuftec™ to PA or PPS improves its properties such as impact resistance, flexibility and elongation; therefore Tuftec™ expands the possibility of using these materials for more diverse automotive parts.
Utilizing Tuftec™ for olefinic resin components
Tuftec™ contributes to the improvement of elongation and flexibility of PP compounds especially at low temperatures, resulting in a reduction of cracks and damages to the PP-based automotive parts.
PP compounds are used for various automotive parts. However, since their brittleness temperature is high, breakage in low temperature environments is often a problem. As its glass-transition temperature (Tg) is in the below-zero temperature range and also it has good compatibility with PP, Tuftec™ is effective in preventing cracks in PP-based automotive parts at low temperatures.
Further details
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