Extrusion 8-2018

Lots of Very Promising Contacts within Short Time Interview with Solvay Specialty Polymers experts: Andreas Lutz, Area Development Manager, Automotive Europe, and Marc Schelles, Technical Marketing Engineer 56 Materials – Interview Extrusion 8/2018 Marc Schelles, Technical Marketing Engineer, Solvay Specialty Polymers At the annual trade show in Friedrichshafen Solvay Specialty Polymers has launched new Ryton PPS grades and announced a new competence center located at Bollate, Italy. Andreas Lutz, Area Development Manager, Automotive Europe, and Marc Schelles, Technical Marketing Engineer, reveal more details about Solvay showcasing at Fakuma. are concentrating on the extrusion ap- plication for automotive sector, such as cooling. Extruding Ryton PPS is something new to our customers. And after the pipe or a tube is extruded, it needs to be thermoformed which is the state-of- the art process for many pipe and tube applications. That is why we work very closely with our customers in the auto- motive industry. We have three different formulations, Ryton ® XE3500BL, Ryton ® XE4500BL and Ryton ® XE5500BL with the stiff- ness varying between 1500 MPa (218 ksi) and 2500 MPa (363 ksi). These are Ryton PPS coolant line Andreas Lutz : The new products we have presented at Fakuma are three Ryton polyphenylene sulphide (PPS) extrusion grades. Solvay’s injection molding Ryton grades have exhibited a proven fit in many existing connector and bracketry fittings. And now we Mr. Lutz, as our readers are mostly extrusion experts, could you please focus on the technologies presen- ted at Solvay booth for the extru- sion market?