Polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) - news on Plastech

Online-paintable fuel filler flap made from PBT

Customized compounds based on polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) can be a cost-effective alternative to high-performance thermoplastics in the production of fuel filler flaps.

Material innovations for batteries and electromobility

Lanxess offering products and solutions along the value chain of lithium-ion batteries.

Lanxess intensifies focus on electromobility

Lanxess sees great application potential for its Durethan and Pocan in the New Mobility growth market. This is why the High Performance Materials business unit founded the “e-Powertrain team”.

Lanxess increases prices for engineering plastics

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is raising its prices for its engineering plastics of the brands Durethan A and Pocan.

Microbes Fully Metabolize Biodegradable Plastics

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) succeeded in an interdisciplinary study to demonstrate that soil microorganisms metabolically utilised the carbon in the PBAT polymer both for energy production and also to build up microbial biomass.

Tailored support for the electrical and electronics industries

LANXESS will be presenting its portfolio of high-performance plastics for the electrical and electronics industries at the “Light + Building” industry fair in Frankfurt, Germany.

DSM’s new hydrolysis-resistant Arnite PBT provides new cost-effective alternative to high performance polymers

Royal DSM is adding hydrolysis-resistant grades of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) to its Arnite family of thermoplastic polyesters.

BASF develops a material for window profiles based on Ultradur

BASF has developed an Ultradur (PBT, polybutylene terephthalate), modified for co-extrusion with PVC, that replaces steel in PVC windows as the stiffening element.

Polykemi AB at Fakuma 2017

The worldwide producer of tailor made thermoplastics compounds will be focusing on Blends - the family of compositions with two base polymers

Focus on new forms of mobility

LANXESS at FAKUMA, October 17 – 21, 2017, will present new high-temperature-stabilized polyamides and flame-retardant thermoplastics for electric mobility.

Smooth steering, safe control

The French automotive supplier Valeo has now developed a top column module whose housing and levers are made of BASF’s engineering plastics Ultramid SI (PA) and Ultradur (PBT).

LANXESS launches new PBT compound

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has developed a new compound called Pocan AF4130 for battery components in electric cars.

BASF puts expanded compounding plant for engineering plastics into operation

BASF put the expanded compounding plant at BASF’s Schwarzheide site in Germany into operation.

New halogen-free, flame-retardant polyesters and polyamides

LANXESS presents new halogen-free, flame-retardant polyesters and polyamides

Sensor carrier made from hydrolysis-resistant Ultradur HR by BASF

Rosenberger Spritzguss und Formenbau manufactures sensor carrier for charge air cooler in one process step and without any weld lines.