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BASF aliphatic TPU targets auto market.(Resins & Additives: NPE 2006 Post show)
Plastics News, July, 2006
Byline: Frank Esposito BASF Corp. wants to get inside automakers' heads - and inside their vehicles - with new grades of thermoplastic polyurethane for the North American auto market. An aliphatic grade of the Florham Park, N.J.-based firm's Elastollan-brand TPU is giving it entry into auto interiors for the first time, said sales and marketing representative Jeff DeGross.
Improved light stability and the elimination of plasticizers have allowed the material "to get its foot in the door,'' DeGross said. The aliphatic grade is produced at BASF sites in Germany and already has been commercialized on a cup holder overmolding on the 2006 Audi A6. "We need to get [automakers] to believe that TPU is usable on their product,'' DeGross said at NPE 2006 in...
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