TPE materials will further replace traditional elastomers and thermoplastic
As a rapidly developing and highly value-added manufacturing sector, the automobile industry has attracted numerous engineering plastics modification research to join this booming "vault", from instrument interior decoration to conductive material power system, from PC and PA to TPE raw materials.
With the global focus on TPE research and development, TPE demand is expected to grow by about 5.5 percent annually to 5.8 million tons by 2017, which is the basis of TPE's 20 billion market. As the world's leading TPE consumer, China will continue to maintain an annual consumption growth of over 8% for a long time to come.
TPE raw material is a kind of non - toxic, non - pollution environmental protection material. It not only does not contain toxic substances itself, and in the production preparation from putting into the molding machine to the final demoulding molding, will not produce toxic substances release formaldehyde and other harmful substances. TPE engineering plastic processing is simple, injection molding on the temperature, pressure, mold requirements are relatively low, through the general thermoplastic molding machine can be processed at any time, do not need to set specific conditions to add special processing equipment. TPE raw material has energy saving effect, because it does not need curing or curing time is very short, easy to recycle.
With the trend of lightweight, comfortable and energy-saving cars, TPE materials will further replace traditional elastomers and thermoplastics, which is the necessity of product innovation and the trend of improving fuel economy.