You can start by first recognizing the broader environmental impacts your products may have over their lifecycle. Both the size and weight of products and packaging can play a critical role in lessening environmental impact and can often be positively influenced by design. 

Avient's TPEs and engineered materials for auto-injector pens offer excellent chemical and impact resistance, good self-lubrication functions, durability to extend product life, and compliance with biocompatibility and food-contact safety regulations.  Our comprehensive portfolio consists of Polystrand™ and Fiber-Line™ branded tapes, made using unique processes and materials to customize performance properties to meet specific application requirements such as tensile and flexural strength, impact performance, creep resistance, and chemical and UV resistance.

Provided customized pre-colored formulations and excellent impact resistance for dental scanner Giving oxygen-sensitive beverages a longer shelf life without negatively impacting the recycle stream

Important information about the health, safety and environmental impacts of Avient products. Important information about the health, safety and environmental impacts of Avient products.

Important information about the health, safety and environmental impacts of Avient products. Important information about the health, safety and environmental impacts of Avient products.

FIBER-LINE™ PERFORMANCE ENHANCING COATINGS PRODUCT SELECTION GUIDE FIBER-LINE™ COATING SELECTION GUIDE COATING Bondcoat™ Adhesion Enhancing Colorcoat™ Fiber Color Packcoat™ Performance Enhancing Protexcoat™ UV Resistant Swellcoat™ Blocker Water Blocking Swellcoat™ Water Absorbing Wearcoat™ High Abrasion Blockcoat™ Anti-Wicking Repelcoat™ Water Repellant Flamecoat™ Flame Resistant FEATURES • Created for applications where an untreated fiber does not have the ability to provide the appropriate amount of bonding characteristics to another material • Provides adhesion to another fiber or substrate without impacting other performance properties • Improves adhesion of the fiber to the resin matrix it is introduced into • Enables industry standard “burst” tests or stringent delamination analysis • Designed to achieve vibrant colors for safety, identification, and aesthetics • Specialized formulas and binders adhere the pigment to the exterior of the individual filaments, while impregnating deep into the fiber bundle • Available by Pantone or RAL number • Compatible with a variety of composite resins including epoxy, polyurethane, and polyethylene • Stronger than solution-dyed fibers • Designed to add lubricity and temperature resistance at the filament level for braided compression packing • Coating at the fiber level versus the finished braid achieves higher % level coating • Fiber level coating extends the life of the braid and reduces required maintenance • Various formulations available • PTFE, silicone, graphite, and mineral oil • Created for high performance fibers that lack inherent ultraviolet (UV) resistance • Coating impregnates the individual fibers with a specialized resin for improved UV protection • Coating enhancements include UV inhibitors, absorbers and stabilizers • Improves the processing of the product via reduced filament snagging and friction • Low level water- blocking finish for any technical fiber or textile substrate • Provides water- blocked strength reinforcements for dry cable designs • Can absorb 5x to 15x its weight in water • Dust-free coating imparts a very soft fiber hand, advantageous to cable, rope, and other textile processes • Patented technology incorporates super absorbent polymer (SAP) suspended in a proprietary resin matrix • Used in the production of ‘dry-dry’ telecommunications, electromechanical, seismic, umbilical and power cables • Can absorb up to 100x its weight in water • Creates a stable gel when exposed to water • Functionally replaces flooding compounds, filling gels, spun SAF yarns, and water blocking tapes • Enables faster, more economical and robust cable manufacturing • Increases durability and abrasion resistance by encapsulating filaments in the fiber bundle • Extends the life of the product by reducing the effects of friction and yarn on yarn abrasion • Protects the fiber from degradation and filamentation • Ideal for high abrasion and high friction applications in a range of fiber constructions and environments • Wicking refers to the tendency of a yarn or other fiber to draw moisture into filaments via capillary action • Coatings designed to prevent moisture from wicking within and between fibers and strands • Protects Wire or Optical Fiber from damaging effects of moisture, which can cause a drop in signal and attenuation • Hydrophobic additives used to promote and enhance water repellancy in industrial applications • Creates a waterproof barrier that prevents moisture from further migration • Applied at various % levels to optimize for water-proof ratings • Designed to inhibit or slow the spread of fire/flame • Coupled to fibers with inherent flame and thermal resistance to boost performance • Added to fibers with weak flame resistance to improve burn rating SUITABLE FIBERS • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Nomex® Meta-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • Zylon® PBO • Technora® Fiber • Carbon Fiber • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Nomex® Meta-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • PET Polyester • Fiberglass • UHMWPE • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Nomex® Meta-Aramid • Carbon Fiber • Graphite Fiber • Fiberglass • PTFE Fiber • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • Zylon® PBO • Technora® Fiber • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • Zylon® PBO • PET Polyester (All shrinks) • UHMWPE • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • Zylon® PBO • Technora® Fiber • Fiberglass • PET Polyester (All shrinks) • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • Zylon® PBO • Carbon Fiber • PET Polyester (All shrinks) • UHMWPE • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • Zylon® PBO • Carbon Fiber • PET Polyester (All shrinks) • Fiberglass • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • Zylon® PBO • Carbon Fiber • PET Polyester (All shrinks) • Fiberglass • Kevlar ® Para-Aramid • Vectran® LCP • Zylon® PBO • PET Polyester (All shrinks) PRODUCTS • Belt & Hose Reinforcement Yarn • Strength Members • Industrial Fabric Yarn • Wire Harness Yarn • Ripcords • Strength Members • Wire Harness Yarn • Industrial Fabric Yarn • Braided compression rings and seals • Valve stem packing • Pump packing • Strength Members • Industrial Fabric Yarn • Wire Harness Yarn • Strength Members • Ripcords • Binder Yarn • Filler Yarn • Synthetic Wire Rope • Buffer Thread • Binder Yarn • Filler Yarn • Strength Members • Ripcords • FRP Rod • Ripcords • Strength Members • Synthetic Wire Rope • Industrial Fabric Yarns • Wire Harness Yarns • Ripcords • Strength Members • Binder Yarn • Industrial Fabric Yarns • Wire Harness Yarns • Ripcords • Strength Members • Binder Yarn • Industrial Fabric Yarns • Wire Harness Yarns • Industrial Fabric Yarns • Wire Harness Yarns • Strength Members Kevlar ® and Nomex® are trademarks of DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION, INC. MOVING HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBERS FORWARD Our wide variety of performance enhancing coatings are developed to improve the natural characteristics of synthetic fibers.

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This hard/soft combination design has been driven by an escalating market trend pushing toward enhanced ergonomic feel and touch, gripping feel, aesthetics, cushioning against impact, vibration isolation or dampening and insulation. Rigid thermoplastics include both commodity thermoplastics and engineering thermoplastics, such as polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), high impact polystyrene (HIPS), polycarbonate (PC), acrynitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA), styrene acrylonitrile (SAN), poly(phenylene oxide) (PPO), polyamide (PA), PC/ABS blend and PPO/PS blend etc.. As given in Table II, TPE-1 demonstrates good adhesion on all ten substrates with very different surface energy and polarity; from the low like PP to the high like PC and ABS.

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