Rotomolding PEs Offer Better UV Performance
New grades engineered to offer a UV20 rating to help enhance long-term weatherability.
ExxonMobil has developed a new suite of rotomolding grades of PE with enhanced UV performance.
Five rotomolding grades — ExxonMobil HD 8570.29, ExxonMobil HD 8760.29, ExxonMobil HD 8660.29, ExxonMobil HD 8512.29 and ExxonMobil LL 8460.29 — have been engineered to offer a UV20 rating to help enhance long-term weatherability. The grades also provide an optimal balance of stiffness and low-temperature impact strength, as well as a broad operating window in challenging rotomolding processes, ExxonMobil says.
Products manufactured using ExxonMobil rotomolding grades include: containers; recreational products; large agricultural tanks; consumer products; toys; and chemical storage tanks.
“It’s always been important that customers use PE grades that are commensurate with the requirements of the expected lifetime of the products they are manufacturing,” says James Stern, the company’s HDPE Business Development Manager, North America & EMEAF. “With the changing needs of our society it has perhaps never been more important to review the performance of our grades so they meet the current and future needs of our customers and the environment they operate within.”
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