Team to discuss optimizing key vehicle plastic components in Hall 8 A at Stand J11
At K 2022, discover Clariant’s additive solutions to support plastics in meeting key eMobility challenges as the automotive industry seeks to extend battery range and charging performance safely, achieve significant materials reuse and recycling, and decrease carbon footprint (Hall 8 A, Stand J11).
“We’re working closely with the automotive value chain to validate our advanced additive technologies for plastics and to progress their focus on weight optimization, sustainable, recyclable materials, and CO2 reduction alongside performance and safety needs. We’re looking forward to new collaborations with K 2022 visitors around our flame retardants and performance additives that will unlock eMobility developments for this industry’s sustainable transformation across design and production,” comments Nicola Lelli, head of Additives’ Strategic Marketing at Clariant.
Support for sustainable eMobility plastics includes new applications for Clariant’s trusted halogen-free flame retardants in polyamide and thermoplastic material-based solutions, with ISCC Plus certified renewable raw materials-based options now also available to lower fossil carbon dependency and improve product CO2 emissions. These belong to the ‘Terra’ family of certified products that offer like-for-like drop-in alternatives to manufacturers.
The trend for charging at higher voltages to make charging faster creates the need for a battery and charging infrastructure materials offering higher tracking resistance and flame retardancy.
Manufacturers of high voltage connectors, busbars or battery housings can now use a new Terra version of Exolit OP 1400, Clariant’s patent-protected, widely-used halogen-free flame retardant for polyamides, to help achieve industry goals towards faster charging and lower greenhouse gas-emitting materials. Exolit OP Terra enables polyamide materials to pass strict fire safety standards like Underwriters’ Laboratories (UL) 94 V0 in combination with the comparative tracking index (CTI) of 600V according to IEC 60112 / ASTMD 3638 standards.
The EcoTain certified Exolit OP solutions produced at Clariant’s ISCC PLUS certified site in Knapsack, Germany, are available as mass-balance certified products. Like their fossil carbon-based counterparts, the Terra grades have little impact on the material’s recyclability and, therefore, technically support proper automotive waste management with the added benefit of reduced CO2 footprint. Clariant is currently constructing a new production facility in Daya Bay, China, to meet rapidly growing demand from eMobility and the E&E component and equipment industries in China and Asia.
Halogen-free Exolit AP flame retardants are advancing the shift from metal to low density, high strength thermoset composites to achieve significantly lighter battery housings capable of meeting electric vehicles’ stringent fire safety standards. Batteries need special protection in the event of a vehicle fire or thermal run-away of the electrical cells.
Clariant offers three grades – Exolit AP 462, AP 740 and AP 742 that enable epoxy or unsaturated polyester-based composites to comply with flame retardant standards of ECE R100 and GB 38031-2020.
Meet the team at K 2022 to discuss optimizing key vehicle plastic components such as PP rear bumpers, PP interiors such as instrument panels and door panels, and also various engineering plastic parts to extend electric vehicle range and support end-of-life vehicle recovery and sustainability goals.
In addition, Clariant is excited to be part of the 3-year EU-funded Revolution Project, aimed at developing lightweight car parts and increasing circularity by facilitating materials recycling and using recycled polymers. The additives team is helping to validate and develop solutions that push plastic materials beyond current performance and sustainability boundaries and help to meet minimum recycling targets for plastic components in vehicles as expected in the upcoming EU legislation. Solutions from Clariant include additives for maintaining high-quality polymer recyclate and increasing recycled content in finished lightweight recyclable parts.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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