Product & Technical Guides

Looking for the right plastic for your next medical project? Then consider the broad offering of medical resins from DOW. They have products for all of your application needs including tubing, film, caps & closures, ampoules, vials, testing & diagnostics and more.

Do you need a transparent polymer with excellent optical, thermal, and mechanical properties as well as chemical resistance and easy processability? Then consider INEOS Styrolution Lustran^® SAN for your next application.

Are you looking for a polymer with high clarity, high impact and high temperature resistance? Entec Polymers offers a broad portfolio of HYLEX^® HB generic prime polycarbonate. HYLEX^® HB products include injection molding, blow molding and extrusion grades as well as specialty grades.

Are you looking for a polymer with high clarity, high impact and high-temperature resistance? Entec Polymers offers a broad portfolio of HYLEX^® generic prime polycarbonate. HYLEX^® products include injection molding, blow molding and extrusion grades as well as a flame retardant and specialty grades.

Check out our technical document on how you can determine the correct amount of cure in your roto-molded part.

Trinseo PULSE ^™ PC/ABS is a high-performance engineering resin that offers high heat resistance, excellent toughness and impact, and excellent processability. PULSE^™ is the perfect material choice when your applications require high temperature resistance along with high impact performance, even at cold temperatures.

If your next application requires a transparent polymer with high stiffness and good chemical resistance, then consider CHIMEI KIBISAN^® SAN. KIBISAN^® offers high clarity, high stiffness, excellent chemical resistance, dishwasher resistance and easy processability. CHIMEI KIBISAN^® is the clear choice!

Are you looking for high-performance polymers and elastomers to produce your firearm components? With our broad product portfolio and our experience in firearms components, we can help you select the best material for your specific needs and applications.

Trinseo MAGNUM^™ ABS is available in a wide range of high-performance grades offering high gloss, low gloss, high heat resistance, and high and medium impact performance. MAGNUM^™ ABS is known for its excellent clear and white natural color and lot-to-lot consistency, making coloring-at-the-machine easy, consistent and lower cost. Let MAGNUM^™ ABS deliver cost, color, and performance for your next project!

In today’s world of sustainability and circular economy, all roads lead back to Entec Polymers. Entec is proud to offer NuPlastiQ BioPolymer and BioBlend^® Resins from BioLogiQ. NuPlastiQ is based on renewably sourced, plant based carbohydrates. It is then compounded with standard polymers like LLDPE, HDPE, PP, PS and HIPS to create a sustainable masterbatch. This sustainable masterbatch is then blended into your polymer to create film and molded components that can reduce your fossil fuel-based plastic usage, reduce your greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to your sustainability goals.

At Entec, we are here to steer you in the right direction when choosing the best material for your Charging Station applications. From Halogen Free FR material and Filler Reinforcements to Impact Modifiers, we have the materials to put the spark in your Portable, Wall and Stand Mounted EV Charging Stations.

Don’t waste time looking in the rearview at your Interior Mirror Assembly Systems material choices. Whether you need dimensional stability, impact resistance, heat stability and more, our Entec experts will match you with the best material to meet your exacting needs.

Check out our handy reference guide that shows typical injection molding processing conditions for a wide range of thermoplastic materials. This guide provides drying conditions, recommended moisture content, melt and mold temperatures ranges, and shrinkage ranges for many of the most widely used polymers.

Are you looking for a better Polypropylene? Then check out these new PP products from Pinnacle Polymers and Entec.

Does the weather have you down? Let us brighten your day with Luran^® S, the weatherable polymer. It is resistant to the effects of weather, even in dark and mid-range colors. It offers the perfect solution for your building and construction products.

Entec Polymers offers a broad portfolio of compounded PC/ABS and PC/PBT alloys. Our product and technical teams can help you select the best product to meet your application needs.

Are you looking for impact modifiers for your PET or PBT polyester compounds? Entec Polymers supplies Dow Elvaloy^™ and Elvaloy^™ AC acrylate copolymers for impact modifying PET and PBT polyesters. Let’s us help you select the best impact modifier for your polyester compound!

Do you need to improve the impact performance of your prime or recycled ABS compounds? Dow Elvaloy^™ AC acrylate copolymers can improve the impact and elongation performance of your ABS compounds, even at low loading levels. Let Entec Polymers show you how!

Are you looking for a one-stop source for your medical polymers needs? Entec Polymers offers one of the broadest portfolios of plastics used in the medical and healthcare markets. Let us help you with your next project. Check out our line card to learn more now!

Looking for low gloss and high gloss ABS for your next injection molding or extrusion project? Then look no farther than INEOS Styrolution Lustran^® ABS. Offering a broad grade slate of ABS products, from injection molding to extrusion and thermoforming, to high heat and electroplating, Lustran^® ABS has got you covered.

Are you looking for a high impact, high gloss, excellent surface appearance, high temperature resin for your next application? Then look no further than INEOS Styrolution Terluran^® ABS.

Are you a converter in the fiber manufacturing space developing a new application or trying to improve output or properties on a new or existing application? Let our team of technical experts help you select the best product for your needs! We offer a diverse array of polymers ranging from PE and PP all the way to PA, PET, PPS and beyond!

Looking for a bio-based polymer? BASF ecovio^® is based on polylactic acid (PLA) which is derived from corn. This composition makes it more resistant to mechanical stress and moisture, compared to other starch-based bioplastics. Check out the list of our most common ecovio^® products in various flexible and rigid applications, and see if ecovio^® would be right for your project.

Would you like to reduce your internal scrap rate and ensure that the rotational molded parts that you are producing meet your customers’ expectations and requirements? Then please take a few minutes to review why we believe having a robust molded part thickness test program will help you and your company.

Don’t be afraid to turn up the heat on this line of high-performance polyamides! EMS-GRIVORY is one of the world leaders providing advanced solutions to the market with polyphthalamide (PPA) products. These materials enhance the designer’s ability to transition away from costly die cast products and injection mold high temperature performance polymers.

Safety is always a top concern for every manufacturing plant. Entec Polymers would like to remind all of our manufacturing customers to be cautious of mixing various polymeric materials together when processing. This document highlights two common polymers, acetal and PVC, and what materials should never be mixed in to either of them.

Entec Polymers is pleased to offer a full range of clear, medical grade thermoplastic elastomers. Our Enplast Americas EnFlex^® medical grade elastomers come in a range of hardness values from Shore A 45 to Shore D 50. These products can be injection molded, extruded and blow molded into a range of medical components and applications.

Do you monitor the Peak Internal Air Temperature (PIAT) in your Rotomolding process? If not, you should. And here’s why. Our document on monitoring Peak Internal Air Temperature (PIAT) helps explain the many benefits of this diagnostic tool and how it can improve the quality of your roto-molded parts and why every roto-molder should use it.