Solvay : Technyl® e-range boosts electro-protection of new mobility components

Shanghai, PR China, April 22, 2018 - Solvay Performance Polyamides announces significant advances in its Technyl® portfolio of polyamides (PA) to provide fit-for-purpose and cost-efficient solutions to meet major challenges and disruptive trends such as connectivity and autonomy as hybrids, all-electric (xEV) and autonomous vehicles share a common and growing need for improved electrical and electronic components performance.

'China is playing an increasing role in the field of e-mobility,'says Nicolas Batailley, Global e-Mobility Leader for Solvay Performance Polyamides. 'While the country nearly accounts for one-third of the world's automotive production, the share of both hybrid and fully electric vehicles manufactured in China has been set to an ambitious target of 20 percent by 2025, which represents almost seven million vehicles. Our Technyl® range has been further enriched to help reach this challenging goal.'

The enhanced Technyl® range comprises flame retardant (FR) solutions, electro-friendly products in both pure and high purity grades and the novel ion-free PA66 grade for fuel cell applications. Developed in close collaboration with OEMs and Tier 1 partners, this pioneering range meets the challenges in terms of cost, performance and sustainability at the highest levels in the market.

'We have also developed a range of highly stable Technyl® orange colored grades as we continue to innovate our portfolio for e-driven vehicle applications,'adds Batailley. 'Orange is the new black for ease of identification as we focus on components designed to handle high voltages, such as connectors, circuit breakers and insulators.'

Solvay Performance Polyamides offers an exclusive level of support to help customers in the overall design process to fully exploit its Technyl® material solutions thanks to a unique combination of competencies and services to speed time-to-market. This offering includes predictive simulation with MMI® Technyl® Design¹, 3D printing of PA6-based functional prototypes in Sinterline® PA6 powders as well as part testing at fully equipped Application Performance Testing (APT®) validation centers which include Shanghai.