Precision TPE for your application


You can rely on a partner with more than 30 years of experience and know-how.

KRAIBURG TPE provides you products that feature exceptional elasticity, thermoplastic processing, and flexibility. Our TPE compounds improve product quality, for a safer and more efficient product. Read about the properties that our TPE compounds can score winning points with.

Purity

Pick the cleanest solution.

 

Suitable for the medical and pharmaceutical markets

  • Below the usual market limits for heavy metals and phthalates and free of latex and PVC
  • Translucent or transparent
  • Sterilizable

Low Emission

Meet the highest standards.
 

Suitable for automotive interior applications

  • Odor VDA 270
  • Fogging – DIN 75201
  • Emissions such as VDA 278, VDA 277

Resistance

A fixed constant.

 

Long-term performance

  • Excellent sealing properties at high temperatures
  • Resistance against high permanent working temperatures
  • Excellent hot-air aging properties
  • Outstanding compressive stress relaxation properties
  • UV resistance

 

Temperature

  • Resistance against oxidative environment
  • Hot air up to 150 ̊C

 

Chemical

  • Resistance to engine oils and greases at high temperatures
  • Resistance to locking liquids and water-based solutions at high temperatures
  • Emission-controlled

Compliance with drinking water regulations

Tested and approved.

 

  • TPEs designed for use in contact with drinking water
  • Approvals in accordance with W270, KTW, WRAS, ACS
  • Regulation (EU) No. 10/2011
  • Low kinking tendency
  • Excellent adhesion to PP/PE
  • Colored compounds with relevant approvals
  • Smooth surfaces resistant to dirt and scaling
  • Injection molding and extrusion possible

Elasticity

Always keeps in shape.

 

  • Ideal for sealing applications such as valves and closures
  • Excellent compression set
  • Meeting standards for watertightness and dustproofness

Adhesion

Always sticking to its promises.
 

  • Constant, long-lasting and robust materials adhesion
  • Economical use in both multi-component injection molding and co-extrusion processes
  • Optimal adhesion to plastics such as PA, PP, ASA, PC, PC/ABS, PMMA, PE, PBT, SAN, etc.
  • Adhesion to EPDM

Compliance with food safety regulations

The highest consumer protection.

 

  • FDA Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 21
  • Regulation (EU) No. 10/2011
  • EN 71/3
  • China GB 4806-2016

 

Flame protection

Safety: a hot topic

 

  • Halogen-free flame protection systems
  • UL94 V-0 listed
  • Two-component injection molding possible

Coloring behavior

Setting colorful highlights

 

  • Colors can be adjusted individually and precisely
  • High quality and long colorfastness
  • Coloring quality identical worldwide

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