Enhanced TDS
Knowde-enriched technical product data sheet
Identification & Functionality
- Plastics & Elastomers Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Materials Features
- Features
- Most cost effective solution
- Adds no color to the process
- Releases Carbon Dioxide
- Improves compatibility of additives and resins
- Typically triggers at lower temperatures
- Removes heat form the melt
- Reduces the melt viscosity of resin allowing lower operating temperatures
- Outgases very quickly
- Our products are available in concentrate, powder or liquid forms.
- Product Benefits
- Cycle Reduction: Faster fill time, less pack time, improved screw recovery, less cooling time.
- Weight Reduction: Less pack pressure, better fill rate, improved flow and reduced shot size.
- Warp Reduction: Better fill rate, less pack pressure, less packed in stress.
- Improved Processing: Opens process windows in thin wall applications, better fill rates with improved flow. Better color dispersion; reduces viscosity in the polymer for better mixing of color.
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Compatible Polymers & Resins
- Plastics & Elastomers End Uses
- Plastics & Elastomers Processing Methods
- Applications
- Injection Molding: The Micro Fine Cell produces foam with a much smaller and tighter cell structure than normal endothermic CFAs, resulting in improved appearance and better physical properties. It is very effective in thin wall applications such as caps and closures.
- Extrusion Blow Molding: The Micro Fine Cell used in extrusion blow molding applications can provide substantial savings in polymer and cycle without detracting from the cosmetics.
- Film and Sheet extrusion: The Micro Fine Cell has an extremely fine cellular structure which makes it ideal for film and sheet extrusion. It works well in common packaging resins such as PE, PP, PS and PET.
- Wire and Cable extrusion: The Micro Fine Cell has an extremely fine cellular structure which makes it ideal for wire and cable extrusion.
- We offer a wide variety of foaming agents using the Micro Fine Cell technology with varying levels or activity and activation temps. Please check with your iD Additives sales representative for specific processing information for your products. As with all iD Additives products, we offer complete technical support in running our products in your processes.
- All of our Micro Fine Cell foaming agents can also be paired up with Color and/or other additives such as UV Stabilizers to create a One Pellet Solution.
Properties
- Appearance
- White Pellet
- Typical Properties
Value Units Test Method / Conditions Activity 70 cc/g - Temperature 325 °F -
Technical Details & Test Data
- Performance Characteristics
- Polyolefins: Polyethylene, Polypropylene
- Styrenics: GPPS, HIPS, ABS and SAN
- Polyurethanes
- TPE’s & TPO’s
- Engineering Grades and High Temp Resins