Multi-Purpose TPV with Post-Industrial Recycled Content
Teknor Apex’s new Sarlink R2 3180B TPV offered with 25% PIR content.
The latest addition to the Sarlink portfolio of thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) from Teknor Apex is Sartlink R2 3180B, which incorporates 25% post-industrial recycled (PIR) content to help the company’s customers better meet their sustainability goals while providing properties and processing performance that matches that of its virgin counterpart. The new grade is a pre-colored black, high-durometer multi-purpose TPV, and is just the first TPV with sustainable content to launch, but softer grades and more specialty TPV formulations containing sustainable content are currently under development, to be released later this year.
Sarlink TPVs have been a premier choice for critical applications that require superior elasticity and long-term performance, like extruded seals and hoses or molded gaskets, and they have been steadily replacing thermoset rubber, like EPDM, in sealing applications due to improvements in processing, design, and weight reduction. Also, unlike EPDM, Sarlink TPVs are recyclable, both in-process or at the end of the product’s life cycle., that is essentially the functional equivalent of its virgin counterpart in terms of processing and performance. Sarlink TPVs in general have faster cycle times or throughput rates versus competitive TPV products on the market, and the addition of recycled content has proven to maintain this advantage during processing trials.
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