Material Database Changes

Ongoing internal testing and changing material supplier offerings require the material database to be continuously updated.

Changes to the Thermoplastics material database

  • Total number of suppliers: 482

    Since the 2015 release

    • New suppliers added: 16
    • Suppliers deleted: 11
  • Supplier added to the database Supplier deleted from the database
    A Schulman Thermoplastic Compounds Sdn Bhd The Matrixx Group
    Autotech Polymers India Pvt Ltd Styron APAC
    Citadel Plastics Styron EUR
    Cool Polymers Styron NA-LA
    Initz BASF
    Lotte Chemical BASF Customer Specific Grades
    Nanjing Julong Science & Technology Co Ltd Celanese (Europe Revised)
    Nilit Plastics Europe GmbH Celanese (Europe)
    Samsung SDI Co Ltd DuPont Fluoropolymers
    Teijin Chemicals DuPont Kabushiki Kaisha
    Tosaf Compounds Ltd Solvay Engineering Plastics
    VI Compounding  
    BASF Engineering Plastics  
    Trinseo APAC  
    Trinseo EUR  
    Trinseo NA-LA  
  • Total number of grades: 9610

    Since the 2015 release

    • Grades added: 500
    • Grades amended: 675
    • Grades deleted: 147
  • Specific data:
    • Grades with specific PVT data: 6144
    • Grades with default Shrinkage Properties data: 2667
    • Grades with RSC or ARD-RSC Fiber - Residual Stress data: 980