materials development | Optimising formulations
Polymaterials’ tests on a fl ame retardant/synergist combination showed that in the unreinforced polymer adding more FR improves fl ame resistance, while the synergist level has little effect. However, in the glass-reinforced compounds, fl ame retardancy improves with more synergist, while the FR loading makes little difference.
easy,” Maier admits. “A series of 100 different com- pounds will be in the range of €30,000-35,000, depend- ing on the number of test bars or other samples per compound, how many different measurement methods will be used, whether or not there is the need for producing masterbatches, and whether there is a DoE or combinatorial plan already available, and what kind of evaluation the client desires (just graphical represen- tation, or creation of a predictive model). “While the individual compound including measure- ments may not be that much cheaper than doing it the conventional way, the strength of our X-Plorator lies in
the possibility to run a large number of compounds in a short time,” Maier concludes.
www.polymaterials.de
More information Gerhard Maier, chief technology offi cer of Polymateri- als, will give a presentation at the Compounding World Forum 2014, which takes place in Philadelphia, PA, USA on 9-10 December. The title of his talk will be: ‘Innova- tive high-throughput techniques for the rapid develop- ment of optimized polymer blends and compounds’. For more details on the event visit
http://bit.ly/CWF2014.
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