Avient introduces automotive-specific grades within recycled content TPEs portfolio
Avient Corporation introduces two reSound REC recycled content thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) for automotive interior applications. These new grades are formulated with post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, offering a more sustainable TPE option without compromising performance.
The reSound REC 7310 product series meets common automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) standards for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and fogging. These initial grades in the series are 80 and 90 Shore A durometers and contain 35 or 45% PCR content from recycled food packaging.
New reSound REC TPEs offer sustainable alternatives for automotive interior applications.
They can also be customized and injection molded or overmolded to polypropylene (PP), making them useful for a range of interior applications, such as door mats/mat pockets, center console trays, front and rear trunk liners, components for instrument panels & dashboards, etc.
They are colored black to provide consistent and comparable aesthetics to prime grades for OEM-specific blacks. Additional colors are also possible.
“These materials enable automotive OEMs and Tier 1s to satisfy performance needs and advance their sustainability goals,” said Matt Mitchell, director, global marketing, Specialty Engineered Materials at Avient. “The use of recycled content also reduces carbon emissions, waste, and pollution at the beginning of the product life cycle for added environmental benefits.”
The reSound REC 7310 product series is manufactured and available in North America.
