Polyscope is a Netherland-based polymer company specialized in research, product development, production and supply of styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) copolymers, compounds, aqueous solutions and styrene, maleic anhydride and N-phenylmaleimide (SMANPMI) terpolymers.

At CHINAPLAS 2018, Polyscope presented its heat boosting and blend optimizing solutions.

As increasing the temperature performance is essential in some industrial and consumer applications. The XIRAN heat boosting portfolio boosts the temperature resistance of a wide range of engineering plastics.

“In the last few years, we mainly sold heat booster for ABS in Asia. This year we introduce a new heat booster for PMMA. This heat booster can help to increase the heat-resistance of the PMMA for 5- 10 degrees, but it still keeps the transparency of PMMA,” said Ferdi Faas, business unit director of Polyscope.

This heat booster for PMMA can be used for the LED lighting in automotive. “With our solution, manufacturers can make a high-heat resistance PMMA with good transparency.”

Meanwhile,the XIBOND blend optimizers portfolio consists of different products which are suitable to enhance the properties of polymer blends for the plastic converting industry. These functional polymers consist of reactive groups which affect the blend morphology or the surface characteristics of several polymer systems.

The XIBOND blend contains XIBOND compatibilizers, XIBOND coupling agents, XIBOND chain extenders, XIBOND viscosity modifiers and XIBOND surface modifiers. 

Automotive is Polyscope’s biggest application at the moment, but its portfolio can be used in construction, compounding, packaging and 3D printing.

In addition, Polyscope is planning to launch a new E-service from which customers or distributors can get advice for their solutions on-line.

“End users want to make their products more sophisticated. Therefore, they need to enhance the performance of their polymers. Different polymers can be combined to get specific properties. For example, we have PC/ABS, PA/ABS combinations before, but now we can see all kinds of strange combinations. And when there isnew combination, problems may happen. How to improve the properties of the new combination is a problem,” said Ferdi Faas.

Currently, a global customer base is supported by Polyscope’s corporate headquarters and production in Geleen, The Netherlands, and with local compounding and contract manufacturing facilities, as well as sales & marketing support in Europe, North America, and Asia.