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2007-07-05 News Release

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BASF Plastics pre K 2007 news conference

Numerous innovations from all engineering plastics segments of BASF at a pre-K 2007 Trade Press Conference in Germany.

Dr. John Feldmann, Member of the Board of Directors, responsible for BASF’s plastics as well as oil and gas business, at a pre K press conference 2007, held on July 3 and 4 in Frankenthal, near Ludwigshafen, Germany, explains the company’s consequent orientation on the basis of well-defined customer interaction models. In the plastics segment, BASF intends to focus on specialties and products with a high potential for differentiation in the market. The target is to increase the sales share of these products by 2010 from roughly 25 to 40%.

Jacques Delmoitiez, head of BASF’s Operating Division Polyurethanes, gives details on the division’s three-pillar strategy. It consists of innovative products and marketing concepts, a site concept that includes more than 30 customer-orientated system houses all over the world and the global production site concept with world scale plants in all regions. With PU basic products, PU systems, special PU elastomers (TPU) and finished components like Cellasto* BASF belongs to the worldwide market leaders. Polyurethanes are the most versatile plastics and can be found everywhere in daily life, from sports shoes and refrigerators to cable isolation, top mounts and coastal protection systems.

New Ultradur High Speed applications, car seat prototype and online coatable plastic fender. Click Here for High resolution image. photo: BASF

Products for automobile production
On K 2007 in Düsseldorf, Germany, the world’s largest plastics trade fair, BASF will present a new polyamide specialty for online coatable car body parts. The material is called Ultramid* TOP and it offers extremely high heat stability which is indispensable for body parts made of plastic. Thus a part made of Ultramid TOP can be mounted very early onto the raw car frame like e.g. a classical metallic fender and then move through the entire manufacturing process down to coating without additional effort.

There is also news about the very easy-flowing PBT Ultradur* High Speed. Backed by high market demand BASF offers now 15 different grades of this material. This PBT (polybutylene terephthalate), which has been rendered especially easy flowing by means of nanotechnology, is now also available in a thermally conductive variant, in various flame-retardant versions and in the low-warpage form made of PBT/ASA. The new, low-warpage version of Ultradur High Speed-Type has been explicitly optimized for making automotive instrument panels. It is used in the dolphin system, a new method for producing soft and leather-like instrument panels in a very cost-efficient way. The companies Engel, Georg Kauffmann, P-Group and BASF have jointly developed the dolphin technique. One of the first prototype parts near to series application will be produced live at the K show in October.

Car seat competence team focuses know-how
BASF and Recaro used the design and functions of the sporty seat from the OPS model of Opel Corsa to create and build a seat prototype for which nearly all parts are produced using BASF materials. From the seat shell made of Ultramid through covers made of Terblend* N to foam materials made from Elastoflex* and on to leather and textile finishing chemicals and superabsorbers, BASF aims to show the capabilities of its newly established cross-divisional car seat competence team.

Ultramid TOP 3000 for online coatable car parts
Plastic add-on parts for the car body such as fenders or trunk lids, will only be permanently and broadly utilized in automotive construction if they can be integrated into the manufacturing sequence at an early stage and without requiring any additional work. With its new plastic Ultramid TOP 3000, BASF has come a great deal closer to achieving this objective. This material can be coated online, that is to say, the plastic parts made of Ultramid TOP 3000 can go through the coating line from the very start, just like the rest of the metal car body.

Two innovative Ultrason* E grades (PESU: polyethersulfone) are available in BASF’s high performance plastics range. Both are developed for automotive headlights. Ultrason E 2010 MR black HM offers improved temperature behavior since it is colored by a new pigment system. The first PESU-Blend Ultrason E 2010 MR HP has been developed, optimizing toughness and processability considerably without harming temperature resistance.

Water injection technology (WIT) is particularly useful for plastics injection molding of complex hollow parts. For this technology BASF has now three specific products in its range of engineering plastics: A hydrolysis-resistant PA 66, Ultramid A3HG6 WIT, for cooling water pipes, Ultramid B3G10 SI (PA 6) and the PBT Ultradur B 4040 G10 WIT, both for structural parts like roof rails. First applications have been realized together with the company Decoma.

* Cellasto, Ultramid, Ultradur, Terblend, Elastoflex and Ultrason are registered trademarks of BASF Aktiengesellschaft.

Additions to this article will be added featuring [2] Design and Packaging, [3] Integrative Simulation and a new PA marketing concept, and [4] Polyurethane for top mounts, dike breakwaters, mattresses and car interiors.

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