Highly reinforced (high-modulus) grades for the substitution of metals


Rising costs for energy and metals are increasingly necessitating more weight- and cost-efficient designs.

Nowadays plastics more often replace metals. Due to this metal substitution not only weight can be saved but also an increasing number of functions can be integrated in an individual application. Since cost-intensive finishing work, like painting, has to be avoided wherever possible, this then leads to more stringent requirements being placed on quality and surface finish.

With the high-modulus grades from its Durethan^® and Pocan^® product series, LANXESS is able to provide precisely the right solution here. Offering stiffnesses of up to 18,000 MPa and high strengths of up to 250 MPa, these grades attain values comparable with those of diecast materials and are thus eminently suited to the substitution of metals – especially for structural applications that are subject to a high level of stressing. Under certain conditions, expensive specialty polymers can also be replaced by Durethan^® and Pocan^®.



Metal substitution with Durethan and Pocan	Advantages over other plastics	Stiffness and cost comparison	Product selection and applications

Thanks to ultramodern and efficient material formulations, these materials with their high reinforcement levels
of 50% to 60% can generally be processed just as easily as a general-purpose grade with 30% reinforcement.

An overview of the key advantages:

high stiffness
high mechanical strength
potential for wall thickness reduction
good processability
better thermal conductivity, permitting earlier demolding
less warpage
reduced thermal expansion
lower tendency to creep
good surface finish despite high filling levels
good chemical resistance
substitution of considerably more expensive plastics
suitable for replacing metals in structural components

High-modulus grades - more literature
	EF, XF and high-modulus product lines: Easy-flow and high-strength *	Brochure
	Lightweight design – with high-tech plastics for "green mobility" *	Brochure

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