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Durable

Thermoplastics are ductile and can withstand high impact, making them ideal for demanding environments. Engineers design them for impact resistance, and they prove effective against dents, chips, cracks, splinters, and wear.

Their high tensile strength ensures structural integrity under repeated stress or heavy loads, reducing service calls and component replacements in even the most demanding applications.

In high-traffic settings like hospitals or schools, this durability helps facilities save on long-term maintenance costs.

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Integral Colors and Effects

At SEKISUI KYDEX, we mix color directly into the plastic material during production. This ensures a consistent finish that extends throughout the entire thickness of the product. Our through-color manufacturing approach eliminates the need for painting or surface coating. It also helps maintain appearance even after cutting, forming, or abrasion.

If you’re producing detailed parts through injection molding, this method will maintain consistency across every component. It enhances durability by preventing surface wear from exposing a different base color beneath.

SEKISUI KYDEX offers a wide variety of custom colors and finishes. These include high-gloss and matte textures, as well as metallic and patterned effects. Most thermoplastics can also be custom color matched, delivering the ideal product hue without compromising performance.

This capability is especially valuable in applications such as transportation interiors, retail displays, and consumer products. Designers keep visual consistency, branding, and wear resistance in mind when working with these thermoplastics.

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Chemical and Stain Resistant

Our thermoplastics deliver exceptional surface durability across a broad range of environments. The majority of our material types are stain—and chemical-resistant. In addition to offering excellent abrasion resistance, we have high-performance thermoplastics. This prevents surface damage from repeated contact, friction, or rough handling. 

These thermoplastics maintain their original color when exposed to industrial cleaners or harsh solvents. Certain compounds are also graffiti—and high-temperature resistant, making them ideal for outdoor and other applications.

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Environmentally Friendly

SEKISUI KYDEX materials are recyclable and contain no plasticizers or VOCs, making them an environmentally sound solution. Manufacturers can often reprocess scrap material to make new products. Thermoforming manufacturing processes do not outgas VOCs or create any hazardous waste to dispose of. 

Their long lifespan reduces waste and makes thermoplastics a safer choice for the environment and workplace air quality. They also support end-of-life repurposing and life-cycle design.

7 Key Benefits of Using Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPEs) in Manufacturing

Versatility and efficiency, long the hallmarks of thriving manufacturing environments, still reign as benchmarks of 21st-century production. More and more, manufacturers must adapt and innovate, both in the products that they offer and the way they go about creating them. One such avenue of innovation is a focus on materials that can serve multiple purposes. And one of the more prominent materials to gain traction in the manufacturing space is “just right” soft thermoplastic elastomers (TPE).

Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) Compounds

sometimes referred to as thermoplastic rubbers (TPR), are a class of copolymers or a physical mix of polymer compounds.  They combine the durable properties of thermoplastic polyolefins and the rubber-like properties of elastomeric polymers to produce flexible TPE materials that provide unique value in the manufacturing process.

Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) material applications are vast, including, but not limited to, use in domestic products such as consumer products, transportation equipment, or any market requiring a grip, pad, bumper, flap, seal, or gasket.

Key Benefits of TPE Compounds:

• Injection moldable, extrudable, thermoformable or blow moldable processing capabilities
• Available as concentrates for compounding, if desired
• Less material usage during processing
• Excellent colorability
• Can be overmolded onto polypropylene and many other specialty polymers
• Highly impact resistant at very low temperatures
• Resistant to most chemicals and cleaners

Have you considered the benefits of Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) compounds to your manufacturing process?

AuroraFlex SBS and SEBS Polymer based TPE compounds by Aurora Material Solutions leverage multiple TPE/TPR chemistries for high strength materials that process quickly and consistently. Even better, Aurora Material Solutions‘ best-in-class team works closely with customers throughout the process to fully understand specific requirements and ensure the best formulation for a given application, and assistance with color and compound matching.

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