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Sumika builds digital sustainability models
Sumika Polymer Com- pounds Europe (SPC) has partnered with Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division to create digitial multi-scale simulation models for all of its Thermo- fil HP and Circle recycled glass-reinforced PPs. Hexagon carried out detailed testing and physical validation of the Thermofil materials with SPC to produce accurate multi-scale behavioural models for each grade. The partners said the models allow simulation of the materials’ mechanical and environmental performance throughout the full lifecycle of a component. A key aim of the develop- ment was to improve adoption in the fast-growing e-mobility sector. “Limited material
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Heubach has launched Ultrazur, a new range of ultramarine blue pigments with four shades ranging from greenish to reddish. The pigments are non- shrinking and suitable for sensitive applications.
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Above: A screenshot from the new Sumika/Hexagon environ- mental simulation tool
behaviour data is a barrier to sustainable e-mobility innovations because automotive engineering teams have not been able to put new materials through the rigorous virtual durabil- ity and safety tests required for automotive endorse- ment,” according to Guil- laume Boisot, Head of the Materials Centre of Excel-
lence at Hexagon. SPC Europe said the encrypted proprietary material models can be accessed using Hexagon’s Digimat software, which is interoperable with popular computer-aided engineer- ing (CAE) software tools, including MSC Nastran, and other third-party software. �
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Toray Industries says it has developed a recycled PA66 polymer recovered from silicone-coated automotive airbag fabric scrap cuttings. The grade is said to achieve the same flow and mechanical properties as virgin PA66 grades.
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LyondellBasell and Kirkbi, the family-owned holding and investment company of Lego Group, are to invest €130, in Germany’s APK, which developed the NewCycling solvent-based recycling technology.
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DSM adds intelligence to colour prediction
DSM Engineering Materials has launched Lucidiris, a new colour performance prediction tool based on AI technology designed to help customers reduce time to market during compound development. According to the company, Lucidiris will help users predict colour and mechanical properties of polymer com- pounds upon addition of colorants. It will also predict the potential colour space envelope that can be produced within defined mechanical criteria and prescribe colour ingredients that can be used to meet targeted properties. The technology has been devel- oped for several of the company’s material grades and will be extended
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DSM’s Lucidiris colour prediction tool uses artificial intelligence technology
to include recycled grades. “Lucidiris is our next step into
digitisation of product development,” said Angelika Schmidt, Global R&T Man- ager of Performance Polymers, DSM Engineering Materials. “What we can do for colour development today will be
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possible for product development in the future. Combining human intelligence with machine learning will enable us to get to the successful recipes with much less iterations and therefore much shorter development times.” �
www.dsm.com/engineering-materials
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