Product & Technical Guides

Would you like to learn more about how to reduce many of your roto-molded part quality issues by simply applying your mold release agents properly? Our tricks-of-the-trade about mold release will benefit you and your team and help reduce your quality costs.

At Entec, new challenges mean new opportunities and with over thirty-five years of experience in the automotive sector our technical experts are ready to match your EV application specifications with the resin that best meets your project’s needs. Learn more about Entec’s EV solutions HERE!

Looking for sustainable plastic solutions? Let Entec Polymers help you meet your sustainability goals with our bio-polymers, recycled resins and degradable / compostable materials. We can help you design for circularity!

Working on a new project and unsure what NSF approved materials will work in your application? Entec Polymers has the products and expertise to help you select the optimal plastic material to meet your requirements as well as meeting the required NSF regulations necessary for your application.

Are you looking for a clear polymer with sparkling clarity, high gloss, shatter resistance and easy processing? Then look no more! Consider K-Resin^® Styrenic Block Copolymers from Entec Polymers. K-Resin^® SBC offers easy processing with high clarity and high gloss for injection molding, blow molding, blown film, and sheet extrusion and thermoforming.

Do you want to learn more about how properly venting molds in rotational molding can reduce your scrap rate? Learn our tricks and tips on how to properly vent a mold.

Are you looking for a handy reference table to get a quick idea if a particular type of polymer may be suitable for your desired sterilization method? If so, then check out Entec Polymer’s Sterilization Table. It provides an overview for a wide range of polymer types and if they are suitable for various sterilization methods.

Does your application require high impact, high temperature resistance and good dimensional stability? Perhaps you may want to consider CHIMEI WONDERLOY^® PC/ABS alloys as your material choice? Entec Polymers technical representatives can assist you in selecting the WONDERLOY^® grade that best meets your applications performance needs.

Are you working on a new product development that requires crystal clear transparency, chemical resistance, and extreme toughness? Look no further than the EMS TR series of polymers. Let our team of product experts help you navigate the path to finding the optimal resin for your medical, automotive, or consumer durable application.

Entec Polymers offers a broad portfolio of generic prime polypropylene (PP) resins. This product family includes homopolymer, impact copolymer, and random copolymer resins, with a broad range of melt flow and additive packages.

Do you want to save time and labor costs and reduce scrap in your Rotational Molding secondary operations? Then take a few minutes to review our critical-to-quality operation of mold parting line maintenance that we truly believe can help improve your quality and bottom line.

Looking for more polyethylene options? In addition to prime polyethylene, Entec Polymers also offers HYPEL^® generic prime HDPE, LDPE and LLDPE. Contact your Entec Polymers sales representative for more information on these products.

Entec Polymers offers a broad portfolio of generic prime GPPS and HIPS. Our product and technical teams can help you determine the best product to meet your application needs.

Are you looking for modifiers for your engineering resin compounds? Then look no further. Entec Polymers offers a range of impact modifiers and compatibilizers for engineering resins such as Nylon, ABS, PC, PC Alloys, Polyesters, PLA and PPS. Let us help you select the best impact modifier for your compounding needs.

Are you looking for the right material for your cap and closure applications? Entec Polymers offers a broad range of HDPE, LLDPE, LDPE and PP options for every type of cap and closure. In addition, we can also support you with masterbatch additives including colors, nucleating agents and more.

Reduce, Reuse. RECYCLE. This is a common phrase that we all hear, but our Dictionary of Recycling Terms can help you clear up some of the confusion around specific words or phrases used in the recycling industry. Let our dictionary help you to increase your knowledge on terms, equipment, materials, and processes related to the recycling industry!

A condensed version of Entec Polymers portfolio of bio-based resins, compostable resins, post-industrial and post-consumer recycled resins, and enhancing additives to meet your needs.

Are you looking for a polymer with glass-like clarity, elevated temperature resistance, high water vapor barrier, and easy processability for your healthcare, packaging, optical or electronic application? Look no further than TOPAS^® COC (Cyclic Olefin Copolymer) to meet all of your needs.

High-quality color and additive masterbatch concentrates for the plastics industry

Siri and Alexa not very helpful for unique plastics industry terms? Refer to Entec Polymers Dictionary of Plastic Industry Terms for more help. We’ve compiled a short list of specific plastic industry terms with easy to understand definitions that can help, especially if you’re newer to the plastics industry!

Are you looking for elastomers other than SBS to modify your bitumen compounds? Let Entec Polymers help you select alternate elastomers and modifiers for use in your bitumen formulations for roofing shingles, flexible roofing membranes, or bitumen pavement compounds.

Styroflex^® PM VA 800 is a powdered version of Styroflex^® 2G66, a SBC (styrene-butadiene block copolymer) with the properties of a S-TPE (styrene thermoplastic elastomer), developed for polymer modification and compatibilization.

Is your roto resin not flowing the way you need it to? Our Pulverized Resin Quality document can help explain why the quality of the pulverizing operation is critical to successful roto molding.

Entec Polymers has significant knowledge and experience with the Dow VERSIFY^™ Plastomers & Elastomer in a wide variety of applications, markets and industries. Let our technical specialists help you select the best VERSIFY^™ product for your film, coating or compounding application.

Entec Polymers has a diverse line card for flexible and rigid packaging. Our business development and technical service teams can help optimize a material solution for any packaging need.

Do you need a transparent polymer but are confused by the many choices? Our Transparent Polymer Comparison Guide provides you with a comparison of several key properties for a number of common transparent polymers. This guide allows you to quickly and easily compare the transparent polymers and the properties that are important for your application. You can also reach out to our technical experts with any questions or for more assistance.

An overview that provides recommended conversion technologies for each product class offered by Entec Polymers.

Entec polymers has several options to meet your flame resistance needs on your plastics products. Let our expert team of plastics engineers help with product selection to ensure you meet UL94 5VA.

Entec Polymers has significant knowledge and experience with the Dow AFFINITY^™ Polyolefin Plastomers and Elastomers in a wide variety of flexible packaging and extrusion coating applications, as well as in hot melt adhesives. Let our technical specialists help you select the best AFFINITY^™ product for your film, coating, packaging and hot melt adhesive applications.

Entec Polymers has significant knowledge and experience with the Dow INFUSE^™ Olefin Block Copolymer in a wide variety of applications, markets and industries. Let our technical specialists help you select the best INFUSE^™ product for your compound, film, adhesive or product modification application.