Technical Literature

The E/E Industry Group works with customers around the globe who manufacture electrical devices, electronic components and telecommunications-related components.

Typical electrical applications include electrical switches, actuator components, electric motor components, starters, relays, circuit breakers and fuses. Electronics applications include surface mount components such as connectors, LED reflectors and chip capacitor bases, as well as CD lens support structures and mobile phone components including micro-speakers, sounders, and receivers.

This broad range of applications takes advantage of our full compliment of polymers. Semi-crystalline products include our flame retardant, non-flame retardant and toughened AMODEL polyphthalamide grades, as well as XYDAR liquid crystal polymer and IXEF polyarylamide. Amorphous materials used are UDEL polysulfone, MINDEL modified polysulfone, RADEL A polyethersulfone, RADEL R polyphenylsulfone and ACUDEL modified polyphenylsulfone. Plus our ultra-performance polymer TORLON polyamide-imide delivers unsurpassed performance for some of the world's most demanding applications.

Performance attributes include:

• dimensional stability over a wide temperature range, up to 250° -300°
• high short-term thermal resistance (up to 300°C) withstanding lead-free surface mount soldering conditions
• high long-term thermal resistance - UL RTI ratings from 130°C to 240°C
• excellent flowability into thin-walled sections (down to 0.25 mm depending on part geometry)
• exceptional stiffness (up to 21 GPa flexural modulus at 23°C)
• resistance to a broad range of chemicals
• outstanding toughness after extended heat-aging
• high refractive index (up to 1.672)
• UL-94 V-0 performance without halogen flame retardants

In many applications, our family of advanced materials can offer solutions which outperform traditional metals - reducing costs, part weight and/or assembly time. We can also offer solutions for replacing mid-range polymers, giving design engineers new freedom in processing, part design and production. The following chart offers suggestions for which material may offer performance enhancement for your existing material choice.

Materials from Solvay Advanced Polymers can solve your application problems.

 In the table below, BP indicates that the Solvay materials has better performance than the current material, SP indicates that the Solvay material has similar performance, LC indicates that the Solvay material is lower cost, and SC indicates similar cost.

With sales and technical service people located around the world - in Japan, China, Korea, Europe and North America -- we are ready to work with you. We offer in-depth design analysis and material selection assistance, utilizing state-of-the-art Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) resources at our technical centers in Alpharetta, Georgia (USA) and Brussels, Belgium. Plus our experienced engineering professionals bring years of molding experience to each job, sharing their expertise with your company.