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 long-fiber Filler Initial Length data: 119
- Grades with specific Crystallization Morphology data: 33
- Grades with default Shrinkage Properties data: 2667
- Grades with Crystallization - Residual Stress data: 20
- Grades with Crystallization - Residual Strain data: 23
- Grades with RSC or ARD-RSC Fiber - Residual Stress data: 980
- Grades with RSC or ARD-RSC Fiber - Residual Strain data: 1000
- Grades with RSC/ARD-RSC and Crystallization - Residual Stress data: 13
- Grades with RSC/ARD-RSC and Crystallization - Residual Strain data: 14
- Grades with Stress/Strain data: 1
- Grades with Microcellular data: 2

Supplier added to the database	Supplier deleted from the database
Trelleborg Malta