Shaping a Sustainable Future
Plastics distributor K.D. Feddersen GmbH & Co. KG sealed a cooperation with Ascend Performance Materials, the world's largest fully integrated manufacturer of polyamide 6.6, at the beginning of 2021. The Ascend product families include unreinforced, reinforced, impact-modified and flame-retardant engineering plastics as well as other special formulations for extrusion and injection moulding.
Since March 2021, the company has also expanded its portfolio in Germany and Europe to include the Hostaform® (POM), Vectra®(LCP), Celanex®(PBT) and Fortron® (PPS) medical grade range from Celanese.
The Feddersen Group's cooperation with the Korean company Hyosung Chemical was also intensified in Europe. Since spring, K.D. Feddersen GmbH & Co. KG and its regional subsidiaries distribute all polyketone grades belonging to the Hyosung brand POKETONE™ in Germany and Europe, after the sister company K.D. Feddersen Ueberseegesellschaft mbH with its Polymers & Compounding Technology business unit has been selling mainly its extrusion grades to the compounding industry since 2015.
Material Solutions Fit for the Future
Thermal management will become increasingly important in future developments of alternative drive concepts. To ensure all this, suppliers to the automotive industry must use application-optimised materials, such as Hostacom EKG 2087T from Lyondellbasell. This grade is a polypropylene (PP) copolymer reinforced with 30 % short glass fibres. The PP compound shows superior performance in terms of creep resistance compared to standard grades.
Notably, the distributor has also expanded its range of materials from alternative, sustainable sources, accessing many new, special products from its partners Celanese, TRINSEO, AURORA Kunststoffe GmbH and BIO-FED, Branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH and member of the Feddersen Group. The thus expanded portfolio includes additional biobased and biodegradable plastics as well as high-quality recycled materials from post-industrial as well as mass-balanced sources with a property and quality level that is close to or even equal that of virgin materials. In terms of the circular economy, the new alternatives offer potential solutions for reducing the carbon footprint.
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