轻质TPE符合回收材料含量标准
凯柏胶宝®轻质系列的扩展标志着轻质建筑领域材料开发的新里程碑。
近年来,各个行业对轻质材料的需求迅猛增长,这些材料在特定应用环境中具有与传统材料相当的性能。在这种背景下,轻质热塑性弹性体(TPEs)作为传统TPE的替代品,凭借其回收内容物,发挥着关键作用。轻质TPEs不仅提供了广泛的选择,还具有独特的材料特性。
Marius Kantoch
Market Manager Consumer | Master Professional (CCI) of Technical Management

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再生原材料含量:39%
2010年代末,我司研发了一项技术,能够生产非常轻质的专用热塑性弹性体。该技术基于 3M™ 玻璃泡的使用,该玻璃泡的总体材料密度明显较低,能够生产出具有出色弹性和柔软度的塑料兼容组件。这些已被证明是成功的新开发的轻质 TPE 于 2020 年春季推出,其成功的主要原因是因为这些化合物广泛满足了汽车制造商以及航空和电动工具等其他行业,或体育和休闲行业的制造商当前对有效轻量化解决方案的需求。
我司轻质TPE系列的扩展标志着轻质建筑领域材料开发的新里程碑。其新研发的凯柏胶宝® R( THERMOLAST® R )化合物具有与现有系列几乎完全相同的材料特性,并将这些特性与 10% 至 60% 的回收材料含量相结合。这些来自消费后来源的资源节约型回收原材料进一步提升了轻质TPE的优点。这可以减少化合物的产品碳足迹 (PCF),从而对塑料加工公司许多部件的可持续性和气候目标产生积极影响。

无论我们获得了哪些优势,都可以明显看出,使用回收材料加工轻质TPE因其更短的循环时间而节省了更多资源。
Marius Kantoch | Market Manager Consumer at KRAIBURG TPE
使用具有回收材料含量的轻质 TPE 还可以减轻材料和零件的重量,使得车辆在使用阶段的能源会减少消耗。此外,由这些TPE材料制成的组件可以回收并在相同或类似的应用中重复使用。 “无论我们获得了哪些优势,都可以明显看出,使用回收材料加工轻质TPE因其更短的循环时间而节省了更多资源。” 消费者市场经理 Marius Kantoch 解释道。同时,他也补充: “这再次表明,热塑性弹性体在可持续性问题上也代表了未来材料的发展方向。”
例如,通过在移动行业或消费行业中使用具有回收材料含量的轻质 TPE,与相应的标准 TPS 相比,可以减轻约 35% 的重量;与 TPV 相比,可以减轻 30% 的重量;与 PVC 相比,甚至可以减轻高达 50% 的重量。
我司轻质TPE的其他优点包括在各自的生产过程中易于加工。这意味着它们可用于所有热塑性塑料生产线上的注塑和挤出工艺,且零件几何形状的收缩率和变形率较低。该材料由于其高表面均匀性和出色的压缩永久变形性能而取得了良好的效果。此外,具有回收材料含量的轻质 TPE 还具有柔软性、阻尼性、表面质量和佩戴舒适性等特点。因此,其可能的应用范围很广,其中包括:轻质 TPE在汽车领域可作为电动工具的组件,以及滑雪设备或保护器的大表面和轻质组件等。
我司在全球范围内都提供具有回收材料含量的轻质 TPE。
关于轻质TPEs
自2020年推出以来,凯柏胶宝®的轻质TPE已广泛应用于众多汽车领域。除了显著减轻组件重量外,该产品的广泛应用还归功于其优越的材料特性,如减少组件变形、优化循环时间,以及能够与完全交联的EPDM材料竞争的卓越弹性。车顶导轨托架、多组分车门密封件、行李箱和发动机罩缓冲器,以及挤压密封件等领域的成功应用,证明了这项尚处于初期阶段的技术的独特性能,并激励凯柏胶宝®将可持续发展理念扩展到更多方面。
Lightweight TPE meets recycled content
With the expansion of the Lightweight series, KRAIBURG TPE has reached another milestone in material development for lightweight construction.
Industry demand for lightweight materials that have properties comparable to those of conventional materials in their specific application environments has been increasing by leaps and bounds in recent years. The replacement of conventional thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) by Lightweight TPEs with recycled content plays a central role here. Lightweight TPEs provide wide-ranging options and unique materials parameters.
Waldkraiburg, 15 October 2024 – In the late 2010s, KRAIBURG TPE developed a technology that makes it possible to produce very lightweight application-specific thermoplastic elastomers. This technology was based on the use of 3M™ Glass Bubbles, which, with a markedly low overall material density, enabled the production of plastic-compatible components that are characterized by both outstanding resilience and softness. Launched in spring 2020, these newly developed Lightweight TPEs have proven to be successful. The main reason for this was that these compounds extensively met the current demand for effective lightweight solutions on the part of automotive manufacturers, as well as manufacturers in other sectors such as aviation and power tools, or in the sports and leisure industry.
KRAIBURG TPE’s expansion of the Lightweight series now marks another milestone in the development of materials for the lightweight construction sector. The newly developed THERMOLAST® R compounds have almost exactly the same material properties as the existing series and combine these properties with a recycled content of 10 to 60 percent. These advantages of lightweight TPEs are complemented by resource-conserving recycled raw materials from post-consumer sources. This leads to a reduced product carbon footprint (PCF) for the compounds and can therefore have a positive impact on the sustainability and climate targets of plastics-processing companies for many components.
The use of Lightweight TPEs with recycled content also reduces the weight of both materials and parts. This may lead to a reduction in energy consumption during the utilization phase of vehicles. In addition, components made of these materials can be recycled and reused in the same or similar applications. “Irrespective of any formal advantages that we achieve, it is measurably the case that the processing of Lightweight TPEs with recycled content saves more resources due to shorter cycle times,” explains Marius Kantoch, Market Manager Consumer at KRAIBURG TPE. “This shows once again that, in relation to sustainability issues, thermoplastic elastomers also represent the materials of the future.”
About Lightweight TPEs
Since their launch in 2020, Lightweight TPEs from KRAIBURG TPE have been used in many automotive applications. Along with the benefit of component weight reduction, the product’s key factors particularly include material properties such as reduced distortion of the component, optimized cycle times as well as outstanding resilience that can even compete with fully cross-linked EPDMs. Successful applications in the fields of roof rail carriers, multicomponent door seals, trunk and hood buffers, as well as extruded sealings, confirm the unique properties of this still young technology and are encouraging KRAIBURG TPE to extend the idea of sustainability beyond weight reduction.
The weight reductions achieved by using Lightweight TPEs with recycled content for applications in the mobility sector or the consumer industry, for example, can save about 35 percent as compared to the respective standard TPS, 30 percent as compared to TPV, or even up to fifty percent as compared to PVC.
Other advantages of lightweight elastomers from KRAIBURG TPE include easy processability in the respective production processes. This means they can be used – with low shrinkage and distortion in the part geometry – for injection molding and extrusion processes on all thermoplastic production lines. The material achieves excellent results due to its high surface homogeneity and outstanding compression set. Lightweight TPE with recycled content is also characterized by its softness, damping, surface quality and wearing comfort. So there’s a wide range of possible applications: in the automotive sector, as components for power tools, as well as for large-surface and lightweight components for skiing equipment or protectors, etc.
Lightweight TPEs with recycled content are available worldwide from KRAIBURG TPE.
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- 总部和生产基地:瓦尔德克赖堡/德国
- 区域总部和生产基地:吉隆坡/马来西亚,亚特兰大/美国
- 产品:热塑性弹性体化合物
- 品牌:热塑宝、科柔宝®、高温宝和尼塑宝®
- 市场:欧洲、美洲、亚太地区
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