沙特基础工业公司（Sabic）推出了SabicPP-UMS（超熔融强度聚丙烯）树脂系列，其熔体强度大于65cN，具有优异的发泡性能，可达到前所未有的轻量化水平。
通过与价值链上的合作伙伴密切合作，沙特基础工业公司在发泡技术方面积累了大量经验，并开发出几乎适用于所有工业应用的专用的、多样化的发泡产品组合。该公司现推出其SabicPP-UMS树脂系列。
沙特基础工业公司的发泡塑料树脂广泛用于各种应用，包括用于汽车零部件（上图）的PP（聚丙烯）泡沫和用于食品包装（下图）的发泡塑料，以及用于热管绝热的LPDE（低密度聚乙烯）泡沫（底部）。沙特基础工业公司还表示，已对LDPE与POE和POPs（聚烯烃弹性体和塑性体）的混合物的开发产生了相当大的兴趣。
据称沙特基础工业公司的新树脂在市场上是独一无二的，其熔体强度大于65cN，具有优异的发泡性能。供应商称，它可被所有的工业部门用作构建模块来开发新的发泡解决方案，从而达到前所未有的轻量化水平。
沙特基础工业公司全球发泡和轻量化领导者Frankde Vries说：“展望未来的轻量化，我们看到发泡是一项关键的技术，可以突破界限，在行业中创造更多的机会。为此，我们的全球团队正忙于为市场开发下一代可发泡树脂解决方案。这些解决方案可以用于许多加工技术，以最好地满足价值链的未满足需求。”
新型Sabic PP-UMS材料可用于提高汽车、包装和建筑市场的轻量化水平。该材料已在沙特基础工业公司荷兰的发泡创新中心（FIC）进行了评估和优化，该中心配备有大多数发泡技术能力和分析设备。
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Close collaboration with our partners in the value chain has enabled SABIC to build up a large bank of knowledge on foaming technologies, and to develop a dedicated, diverse global foam portfolio, applicable in almost all industrial applications. SABIC is adding to this portfolio with the launch of its SABIC® PP-UMS (Ultra Melt Strength) resin – a completely new generation of melt strength polypropylenes.
SABIC’s new resin is unique in the market, with a melt strength of more than 65 cN and outstanding foam-ability. It can be used by all industry segments as a building block to develop new foaming solutions that enable an unprecedented level of light weighting.
“Looking to the future of light weighting, we see that foaming is a key technology to push the boundaries and create even more down gauging opportunities in the industry. For this reason, our global teams are busy developing the next generation of foam-able resin solutions for the market. These solutions can be used in many processing technologies to best meet the unmet needs of the value chain,” said Frank de Vries, SABIC’s global Foam & Lightweight Leader.
The new SABIC® PP-UMS material can be used to enhance light-weighting in the Automotive, Packaging and Building & Construction markets.
SABIC’s intensified focus on foam technology covers the entire value chain. We have a dedicated global foam marketing team, enabling a focused and fast implementation of solutions, as well as one of the broadest foam portfolios in the industry. The new SABIC® PP-UMS material has been evaluated and optimized for foaming at SABIC’s Foam Innovation Center (FIC) in The Netherlands, which is equipped with most foam technology capabilities as well as analytical equipment.
“We all face many global challenges due to an ever-growing population and increasingly limited resources. Foaming is key to help solving these challenges, by pushing industries to invest in solutions that are both sustainable and cost-efficient, with enhanced material properties. We are keen to invite customers and value chain partners to work with us to further develop these innovative solutions, thus enabling our mutual ambitions. That’s what we at SABIC call Chemistry That Matters™ “, concluded Frank de Vries.
For SABIC’s latest vision paper on polyolefin foam solutions for thermal pipe insulation, please click here.
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