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Plastics processors polymers provider Distrupol speciality resin for Avon Automotive

Thermoplastic vulcanizate polymers resin from Distrupol achieves better production and cost effectiveness for plastics processors Audi Tier 1 supplier Avon Automotive.

As a leading European polymer distributor, technical service and solutions provider, Distrupol plays an active role in supporting moulders and OEMs through all stages of application development. A demonstration of this has been its successful partnering with UK automotive moulder, P&D Manufacturing in the development of an under- bonnet heat shield in thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) resin for the Audi A4 and Audi A6 models.

Driving this development undertaken for Audi Tier 1 supplier Avon Automotive, was the need to replace EPDM rubber, in which the application had previously been made, in order to achieve better production and cost effectiveness. Avon Automotive is the largest division in the Avon Group supplying a variety of custom made components to the automotive market.

“The key starting point was to identify the material that would give the advantages being targeted and that would meet the high performance criteria demanded by the part,” explains P&D Manufacturing’s Andy Penton. “With their in-depth materials knowledge, Distrupol support us with that and made an invaluable contribution from the outset of the project.”

The material selected was DSMs Sarlink*, a family of TPVs based on dynamically vulcanized EPDM rubber and thermoplastic blends. Sarlink TPV combines the well-known benefits of thermoplastics such as low cost processing from convenient, easy-to-use granules and moulding versatility, as well as the ability to achieve a tight tolerance fit in the end product. Additionally it has the distinctive characteristics of rubber vulcanizate, which includes elasticity, flexibility, high friction coefficients and softness.

Distrupol delivers DSM’s Sarlink* TPV resin for tough Audi under-bonnet application. Click on photo for High Resolution image.

Distrupol provides plastics processors with the most comprehensive link to the world’s leading polymers. Underpinning its customer-centric, Europe-wide materials distribution business is a full range of technical and application development assistance to supplement customers’ own resources.

“Distrupol helped us determine the correct material grades to meet the requirements for both toughness and flexibility,” says Penton. “They also provided mouldflow analysis of the part and helped establish the necessary proce

ssing guidelines. Importantly for us, this degree of co-operation has a positive influence on shortening overall development time.”

In addition to satisfying all performance parameters, because of its outstanding high flow properties and fast cycling time, the injection moulded Sarlink TPV also delivered increased productivity and cost savings to the moulding of the Audi under-bonnet component heat shields.

Sarlink TPV, which can be injection moulded, blow moulded or extruded, finds applications in automotive, construction, electrical and electronic, leisure and general industrial applications. Moreover, specialised grades within the product family serve the needs of medical, pharmaceutical and food-contact end-uses. Distrupol is the sole distributor of DSM’s Sarlink range of TPVs throughout the UK, Ireland, the Nordic region, Benelux and France.

*Sarlink TPV resin is a registered trademark of Distrupol.

Distupol is a daughter company of Univar NV, Distrupol is a major polymer industry distribution and service supplier in Europe where it already leads the market in the UK, Ireland and the Nordic region. Headquartered in the UK, Distrupol has a network of offices and logistics centres in the Benelux, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, as well as the in UK.

Univar NV is one of the largest distributors of chemical raw materials in North America and Europe with an annual turnover of approximately 5 billion Euros. The company supplies a wide range of products from the world’s leading manufacturers to customers in many sectors of the industry. Univar buyers operate in the foodstuff sector, pharmaceuticals and the cosmetics industry, detergents, the plastics industry, paints and coatings, and the metal, textile and transport sectors.

Find information about Univar NV.

Avon Group Manufacturing, a UK gasket and seals manufacturer, not unconnected with Avon Rubber plc, purchased P&D Manufacturing in November of 2005. P&D Manufacturing is toolmaker and injection moulder based in Corsham, UK, with 11 injection-moulding machines, extensive toolmaking equipment, and performs laser welding and assembly work services.

Find information about Avon Group Manufacturing.




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