Comprehensive service – from the initial idea to the final product

Our colleagues from Marketing, Business Development and Applications Engineering will accompany you from the initial idea for an application to the start-up of production. They know their way around your markets. They can advise you on the choice of materials, help with the design of a component (for example, through Mold Flow analysis), make suggestions on building the mold, and arrange for support from our technical service departments.

As part of our cooperation with you, our Research & Development team has the task not only of refining the overall properties of our TPU material, but also of adding other useful qualities – like improved transparency, for instance. Another area of focus is the optimization of processing techniques and, in extreme cases, finding new ones.

Our customers also profit from the research work we carry out in anticipation of market developments. One good example is provided by the new light-stable Desmopan® & Texin® grades. They have now become the material of choice for TPU components for which high long-term color stability is specified.

For performing trials in our technical service department, we can offer you virtually all the machines and peripherals you are likely to need for TPU processing - including the know-how of our teams of experts. For example, apart from conventional injection molding machines and extruders, we also have facilities for blown film extrusion, extrusion coating and coextrusion. We also have equipment for overmolding "hard" thermoplastics with "soft" TPU grades (hard/soft technology) plus a fully equipped laboratory for powder slush appli-cations.

In the Bayer MaterialScience Thermoplastics Testing Center (TTC), the customer can perform around 200 different material tests with Desmopan®, including, for example, elasticity modulus tensile tests, fire tests and heat-aging tests. They can also perform a variety of tests on finished components. Our full service package also covers the production of test specimens. The TTC is certified according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025 by the DAP Deutsches Akkreditierungssystem Prüfwesen GmbH.

By visiting this web site you can also download a wide range of information material, extending from technical service information to product data sheets and individual case studies on pioneering new TPU applications. Various processing techniques are also presented. Other related websites are www.bayermaterialscience.com and www.bayermaterialsciencenafta.com.