Polymer Nanocomposites Offer Cost Saving For Automotive Parts.(Brief Article)

Innovative uses for polymer nanocomposites in automotive along with other markets will be featured at the upcoming Nanocomposites 2001: Path to Commercialization conference hosted by Principia Partners. The event will be held at the Marriott Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD on June 4-5, 2001, and is sponsored by several companies including Applied Sciences, Coop Chemical and Unicoop.

The high activity in developing commercial applications for polymer nanocomposites by automakers and their suppliers is beginning to pay off, Principia Partners said. General Motors Research will address the automaker's technical activities in injection molding of polyolefin-based nanocomposites compared to a talc-filled TPO.

General Motors Research and Development and Basell Polyolefins have jointly developed a family of polyolefin-based nanocomposites for use in the injection molding of body-side claddings. In addition to mass savings, the nanocomposite material is proving to have a much wider processing window than a conventional talc-filled TPO, allowing Tier 1 molders the opportunity to process away problems rather than initiating a tooling change.

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