New Polymeric Carbodiimides From LANXESS Provide More Reliable Protection For Plastics Against Hydrolysis

• Improved antihydrolysis additives
• Very good stabilization of biopolymers
• Good processing properties

The LANXESS Rhein Chemie Additives (ADD) business unit is expanding its large product range of hydrolysis stabilizers for plastics and polyurethanes with the addition of Stabaxol P 110, the first product in a new line of innovative, low-emission polymeric carbodiimides based on alternative raw materials.

With Stabaxol P 110, as with the other new carbodiimides, LANXESS is addressing the trend towards customized antihydrolysis agents that are tailor-made for use in individual applications and are thus an enormous improvement with respect to stabilization performance, toxicology, emissions and handling.

Stabaxol P 110 shows outstanding performance when used in the thermoplastics PET and PBT and in thermoplastic elastomers (TPE-E). In particular its use in the bioplastic polylactide (PLA) leads to a major extension of the service life of the final article under moist and warm operating conditions.

Stabaxol P 110 is supplied in pellet form or as an easy-flowing powder. It can be very easily processed as it does not have to be pre-heated in the production process, has a high softening point of 80 °C and is thus easy to meter uniformly.

Typical applications include monofilaments for paper machine screens, cable sheathing, engineering injection moldings and electronic housings.