Plastics resin makes up futuristic engine cover

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2007-03-05 News Release

Plastics resin makes up futuristic engine cover

A German manufacturing firm has fabricated a shapely automotive engine cover made of a special polyamide plastics with high bursting pressure resistance.

A futuristic engine cover with an integrated air filter is the brainchild of developers at MAHLE Filtersysteme in Ohringen, Germany. MAHLE produces this large part with its attractive design for DaimlerChrysler’s V8 engines.

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The company uses the plastics resin from BASF’s Ultramid* B3WG6 GP, a polyamide 6 reinforced with 30 percent glass fibres and with high resistance to bursting pressure, and with very good dimensional stability, while its surface characteristics allow the creation of aesthetically pleasing products.

BASF’s polyamide grades are PA molding compounds on the basis of PA 6, PA 66, various copolyamides such as PA 66/6 and partially aromatic polyamide.

Mahle’s shapely engine cover made of BASF polyamide with high bursting pressure resistance. Click Go for High resolution image. photo: BASF Corporation

Ultramid stands out for its high mechanical strength, stiffness and thermal stability. Moreover, it is tough at low temperatures, has favorable sliding friction behavior and permits problem-free processing. Owing to its excellent properties, this material has become indispensable in almost every technical realm for a wide array of components and machine elements, also as high-grade electric insulating materials and for many special applications.

The Ultramid portfolio for customers from the automotive industry, the electric & electronics industry as well as all other sectors of industry such as furniture, packaging, sports and recreation.

* Ultramid is a registered trademark of BASF Corporation.

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