Product & Technical Guides

Entec Polymers has significant knowledge and experience with the Dow ENGAGE^™ Polyolefin Elastomers in a wide variety of applications, markets and industries. Let us help you select the best ENGAGE^™ product for your application.

Are you looking for a quick way to match up plastic material resin types based on a specific processing method? Then check out our new Line Card Selection Guide by Processing Method and see how easy it can be!

Zylar^® 631 belongs to INEOS Styrolution portfolio of MBS materials. Zylar^® 631 offers a good balance of stiffness and toughness. A medium impact strength grade that offers good surface hardness, without compromising on clarity.

INEOS Styrolution offers industry leading styrenics that excel in applications requiring clarity, strength, and toughness.

Looking for high performance impact modifiers for your polypropylene compounds? Let Entec Polymer’s experts assist you in selecting the right impact modifier for your specific application needs.

Are you looking to improve the impact of your nylon compounds? Let Entec Polymer’s experts help you to position the best impact modifier to meet the specific impact requirements you need in your nylon compound.

Does trying to understand UL 94 cause your hair to catch fire? Let Entec help you to understand what the UL 94 flammability testing means for your application.

Market demand is continuously increasing for high impact, flame retardant and heat resistance materials. Chimei's new Wonderloy products pushes the limits for what's possible in plastics.

Are you struggling with warpage issues in your roto-molded parts? Let Entec's roto-molding experts provide you with assistance to produce warp-free parts!

Having problems extruding profiles, tubes, or pipes? Turn to Entecs’ troubleshooting guide and technical experts for help. We have the experience, as well as, an extensive portfolio of material options to solve your extrusion problems.

Looking for a TPE with a high hardness? Looking for a TPE with a low hardness? Let Enplast help you with our range of TPEs that go from a low Shore OO to a high Shore D hardness and everything in between.

Looking for a purge compound? Entec Polymers offers several different and unique purge compound options. Let us help you select the right one for your needs!

Taking the time in order to keep process machinery and molds in prime condition is critical to a sustained business model. In this overview, we outline how a preventive maintenance program can help improve operational availability and mitigate unplanned down time.

Need to compare material hardness scales? Check out our handy Hardness Conversion Table comparing Shore 00, A and D with Rockwell R.

In this technical article, we investigate the most commonly overlooked processing set points when launching new molds or troubleshooting existing tools. Establishing a fill only viscosity curve, determining nominal shear rate, and optimizing barrel heats/recovery profile allow for molders to run a repeatable and consistent cycle.

Not sure which polymer is right one for your adhesive compound formulation? Let Entec Polymers help. We offer a variety of polymer types and grades for use in whatever type of adhesive compound you’re developing.

Which mineral should you use in your PP compound application? Let Entec Polymers help you select the best one!

Key features and plastic material considerations for each part of a reusable face shield design.

Innovative sustainability solutions for the growing single serve food market. Re-engineering polymers in packaging for friendly recycling.

Are you looking to improve molded part release? Mold filling? Scratch and mar resistance? Color and filler dispersion? Or do you need to reduce melt fracture, extruder torque or coefficient of friction? Then let Entec Polymers help you select the right siloxane master-batch product for your application.

DOW^™ BOOSTER throughput enhancer concentrate can significantly increase productivity in the extrusion of LLDPE films, whether monolayer or part of a co-extruded structure.

Dow RETAIN^™ 3000 is a functional polymer which promotes compatibilization between polyolefin's and polar polymers such as nylon and EVOH and blends of polar polymers.

Dow CONPOL^™ products are master-batch concentrates based on ethylene-methacrylic acid. They are designed to be used in Dow NUCREL^™ and SURLYN^™ resins, primarily in film and coating applications.

Dow ELVAX^™ EVA copolymers are used in many applications including flexible packaging, thermal-lamination film, photovoltaic cells, foams, hose & tube, footwear, toys, wire & cable compounds, concentrates, athletic goods and hot-melt adhesives.

Dow BYNEL^™ adhesive resins are functionalized polymers that provide adhesion between incompatible polymers together using various chemistries and technologies.

Dow APPEEL^™ Peelable Resins are a one bag solution that delivers repeatable and proven performance for the easy peel market.

DOW^™ 20 Series Ultra-Pure Polyethylene is produced using a proprietary process that produces a stress-crack resistant, ultra-pure LDPE with very high molecular weight, narrow molecular weight distribution and few short chains.

Discover the endless possibilities with Dow NUCREL^™ Acid Copolymers, a game-changer in the world of specialty films, adhesives, automotive, industrial and consumer products!

Dow SURLYN^™ Ionomers have been used for many years in packaging applications, offering high clarity, high gloss, oil and grease resistance, puncture resistance, scratch resistance, excellent hot tack strength and superb thermoformability.

Need to improve the impact of your nylon compound? FUSABOND^™ can help!