Engineering polymers
Cognis offers polymer manufacturers unique building blocks to make or modify existing resins. Most are derived from bio-based sources and present sustainable alternatives to petroleum based products without compromising application performance. Benefits from polymers incorporating these building blocks are many fold:
- Low melt and better flow processing of nylon polyamides
- Toughened and more flexible engineering polymers
- Polyester, Nylon and polyurethane specialty films with improved barrier properties
- Better balance of tensile strength, elongation and modulus
- Higher moisture resistance and better low temperature performance
Building blocks for thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers
Acids for specialty nylon, polyesters, polyamides, polyurethanes:
- Emerox diacids
- Empol Dimer acids
- Emerox Pelargonic acid
- Dimer diisocyanate
Polyols for specialty nylon, polyesters, polyamides, polyurethanes:
- Sovermol polyols
- Photonol 7028
Specialty building block monomers for thermoplastic acrylic polymers
- Bisomer methacrylates
- Photomer acrylates
Selected end uses:
- Monofilaments
- Brushes
- Automotive parts
- Specialty packaging film (nylon, polyester, polycarbonates, polyurethane)
- Resins for hot melt adhesives
- High performance nylon and polyester fibres
- Thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers
- Molding resins for potting and encapsulation of electronic devices