Home Appliances EMEA Differentiated Performance and Design with Innovative Resins from Trinseo
Proven Performance and Continuous Innovation With years of experience supplying the home appliance market, we understand the challenges the industry faces today to reduce costs, improve sustainability and meet changing consumer tastes. Trinseo provides a broad portfolio of plastics with great performance that focuses on enabling manufacturers to make appliances that are more robust, more cost-efficient and more appealing to you. Trinseo is an industry leader in resins for home appliances, and our products set the standards globally in many home appliance applications. Our R&D teams are committed to continuously developing new, innovative products and improving current products, used in a range of home appliance parts. 2
Refrigerators Refrigerators and freezers are among the most common appliances used throughout our homes. The interior of these appliances are often subject to spills and scratches. These consequences are visible every time the door opens. When using polystyrene from Trinseo, you can be sure your liners and other interior surfaces will stand up to everyday challenges. For refrigerator liners, Trinseo put into place the industry standard with STYRON A-TECH 1175 Polystyrene Resin, thanks to the unmatched combination of ESCR, thermoformability, stiffness and impact resistance, enabled by STYRON A-TECH Polystyrene Resin technology. Adding our C-TECH Polystyrene Resin as the top layer, our customers get the deep gloss they require to add value to their products. As a result, the unique combination of Trinseo s technologies enables a glossy, white finish that retains its brightness for years; stress- and chemicalresistance to stand up to spilled food and foam insulation materials; and easy thermoformability that allows for the most complex shapes and styles. Innovation does not stop at Trinseo, and we are continually developing new products for fridge liners. Building on the industry standard STYRON A-TECH 1175, the next generation, STYRON X-TECH 2175 Polystyrene Resin, enables material savings whilst maintaining excellent refrigerator and freezer liner performance. Due to its superior rigidity and thermoformability, liners manufactured with STYRON X-TECH 2175 can be significantly downgauged, which addresses current market needs on raw material and energy savings, leading to significant reduction of the environmental impact along the value chain. For refrigerator accessories, Polystyrene resin (GP) grades deliver excellent quality and consistency to respect your brand s color or tint charter in transparent parts, while matching stringent requirements on transparency, rigidit and processability. STYRON A-TECH 1175 brings the highest ESCR in the market for your injected white parts. Small Appliances Following changes in lifestyle, consumers demand good looking appliances with smart designs and functionalities. They are equally impatient to acquire these appliances. Our broad portfolio of resins offer a wealth of performance characteristics that enable our customers to develop small appliances such as coffee machines, food mixers and water filters. Our technology enhances quality consistency, therefore facilitating a faster introduction to the market and creating more appealing and more functional appliances. Our portfolio of MAGNUM ABS Resins, TYRIL SAN Resins and CALIBRE Polycarbonate Resins offer more shape freedom through a wide range of mechanical properties. We also offer appearance options via a range of tints and transparencies, easy self-coloring and special effects. Washing Machine Eco-awareness, design, transparency and cost effectiveness are crucial to this market segment. Trinseo has the products to meet the stringent requirements of your key parts in a cost efficient manner. MAGNUM 8391 ABS Resin brings the best combination of gloss, impact, flow and easiest self-coloring on the market thanks to the mass polymerization process. TYRIL SAN Resins bring a consistent and light tint for large transparent washer windows. Air Conditioning The marketplace for air conditioners is changing. To respond to these trends, new resins have been developed by Trinseo. Trinseo offers a complete portfolio of polystyrene resins to make your air conditioners more robust, more affordable and more visually appealing. Additionally, our ABS products, MAGNUM 8391 and MAGNUM 8434 ABS Resin offer excellent robustness, great consumer appeal along with easy processability. 3
Products for Home Appliances Product Generic MFR [g/10min] (200 C/ 5 kg) Vicat [ C] (120 C/h, 1 kg) Charpy [kj/m²] Major Characteristics Refrigerators and Freezers Washing Machine and Dishwasher Small Appliances Air Conditioning STYRON A-TECH 1175 STYRON X-TECH 2175 C-TECH (HI) 2.8 100 10.8 Industry standard. Excellent processability in extrusion/thermoforming Environmental stress crack resistance Stiffness/toughness balance Food contact approved Low gloss (HI) 2.6 99 9.3 (1) This high stiffness and very high melt strenght ESCR resin allows for a minimum of 5% down gauging compared to STYRON A-TECH 1175 Environmental stress crack resistance Superb thermoforming for complex fridge liners Very high melt strength Stiffness/toughness balance Food contact approved Low gloss (I) 6.3 100 - Used as gloss layer on top of A-TECH 1175 Very high gloss Improved toughness versus GP Excellent processability, no die lines 634 636 BT 637 678E (GP) (GP) (GP) (GP) 3.5 102 - High Heat Resistance Balanced Processing Balanced Mechanical Properties 3.1 96.5 - Balanced processability and mechanical properties More blue tone GP High Mechanical Strength 2.5 97 - High Mechanical Strength 10.5 93 - Ideal for Injection Molding High Flow Easy Processing TYRIL 790 SAN 21 (5) 110 16 (6) Excellent Chemical Resistance High Flow TYRIL 867E SAN 12 (5) 110 17 (6) Excellent balance of Physical properties Good Chemical Resistance Low Flow TYRIL 875 SAN 16.5 (5) 111 17 (6) Excellent balance of physical properties, good chemical resistance, good heat resistance and very easy processability TYRIL 905 SAN 13 (5) 110 15 (6) Suitable for Injection Molding High Transparency MAGNUM 8391 ABS 28-19 (1) Low pigment needed, easy colouring due to low base colour Less discoloration due to higher thermal stability High lot to lot consistency High Gloss High Flow CALIBRE 200 Series CALIBRE 300 Series PC 5 to 22 (2) 149-151 (3) MFR Specific PC 5 to 31 (2) 149-151 (3) MFR Specific Food contact approved resins, available in multiple tints and with/without mold release. Exceptional impact resistance, heat distortion resistance, optical clarity, available in multiple tints and with/ without mold release and/or UV stabilisers EMERGE PC/ ABS 7570 PC/ABS 20 (4) 105 18 (1) Meets IEC 60335 regulations and UL94V0 1.5mm Ignition Resistance Electrical insulation Heat resistance and humidity resistance Notes: The data provided in this overview are typical values only and are not to be construed as specifications. Users should confirm results using their own tests. (1) Izod [kj/m 2 ] (notched, 23 C) (2) MFR [g/10min] (300 C/1,2kg) (3) Vicat [ C] (50 C/h, 5kg) (4) MFR [g/10min] (230 C/3.8kg) (5) MFR [g/10min] (220 C/10kg) (6) Charpy [kj/m2] (unnotched, 23 C) 4
Turning Ideas into Reality About Trinseo Trinseo (NYSE: TSE) is a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders, and synthetic rubber. We are focused on delivering innovative and sustainable solution to help our customers create products that touch lives every day products that are intrinsic to how we live our lives across a wide range of end-markets, including automotive, consumer electronics, appliances, medical devices, lighting, electrical, carpet, paper and board, building and construction, and tires. Plastics Business Division Trinseo Plastics is a business division with a broad plastics portfolio including polystyrene, co-polymers (ABS, SAN), polycarbonate, compounds & blends and automotive plastics. Trinseo Plastics is anchored by a premier polystyrene franchise, a global marketplace leader in polystyrene production. Trinseo Plastics offers innovative and sustainable solutions to customers in industries such as home appliances, automotive, building & construction, commercial transportation, consumer electronics/information technology equipment (ITE), consumer goods, electrical & lighting, medical and packaging. Worldwide Manufacturing Assets Stade, Germany Terneuzen, Netherlands Tessenderlo, Belgium Midland, MI, USA Schkopau, Germany Norrköping, Sweden Hamina, Finland Zhangjiagang, China Böhlen, Germany Ulsan, South Korea Rheinmuenster, Germany Mussolente, Italy Dalton, GA, USA Hsinchu, Taiwan Tsing Yi, Hong Kong Merak, Indonesia Plastics Latex Rubber 5
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