Partnership for PA

The new strategic partnership between Arkema and Toyobo aims at developing high temperature polyamides made from renewable resources. Under this cooperation, both companies will promote new generation high temperature polyamides with improved technical properties and lower environmental footprint.
The new products initially consist of two ranges with melting points around 250° and 315°, with a low moisture pick up and a biobased content up to 70%. Their properties should make them suitable for highly technical metal replacement applications in consumer electronics and automotive applications, when high temperature resistance and dimensional stability are requested and where plastics could not be used before.