Specialty Polymers for Home, Lawn & Garden

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Anti-Stain Textile TreatmentSmall-Engine Fuel TanksFurniture

Fluorolink® PFPE is the ideal treatment for apparel home furnishing where enhanced stain repellency and easy care are desired. Stain from coffee, red wine, chili and soy sauce can be avoided by simply blotting the surface with an absorbent cloth or paper towel. Because of the water repellency properties of Fluorolink® PFPE as well as its excellent stain repellency, mild washing conditions ensure soil removal.

Fluorolink® PFPE are a water based dispersion system, PFOA-free, not manufactured with, do not containing and do not degrade PFOA, PFOS or C8 telomer-like structures. Fluorolink® PFPE can be easily formulated with several finishing auxiliaries such as crosslinking agents, extenders and suitable hydrogenated resins.

Materials

Fluorolink® PFPE

Multi-Layer Barrier Technology

Ixef® Polyarylamide: Fewer Layers Reduce Complexity and Cost

Three-layer HDPE/Ixef fuel tanks meet barrier requirements while offering simplified processing, reduced equipment and tooling requirements, and lower cost versus traditional co-extruded five-layer HDPE/EVOH tanks. They also have better cold weather durability, delivering excellent impact resistance to minus 40°C (SAE J233).

HDPE/Ixef tanks are also less expensive than fluorinated tanks, which must be shipped back and forth to a treatment facility, and monolayer tanks, which contain more expensive barrier additives.

Ixef BXT-2000/0203 resin exceeds the current CARB TP901 standard, which limits fuel vapor emissions to 1.5 g/m²/day for small off-road engines, and the new EPA regulation for fuel CE10. The material also maintains its mechanical properties in new fuels such as bio-diesel and ethanol-based mixtures.

Unlike EVOH, which is limited to continuous-extrusion blow molding, Ixef BXT-2000/0203 can be run on both accumulator and continuous-extrusion machines. For blow molded HDPE/Ixef tanks, no purging is required and changeovers on both machines are quicker and less costly than with EVOH.

Chemical Resistance Enables Two-Layer Barrier Technology

Ixef BXT-2000/0203 can also be used in two-layer barrier structures such as fuel lines, filler pipes and low-permeation fuel hoses because of its ability to withstand direct contact with fuel.

Materials

Ixef® PARA

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CARB & EPA Approved

Ixef® Polyarylamide: CARB & EPA Approved for Small-Engine Fuel Tanks

Ixef BXT-2000/0203 has been approved by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a barrier solution for three-layer fuel tank systems for small-engine fuel tanks such as lawnmowers, snow blowers, weed trimmers and generators. The blow moldable polyarylamide (PARA) resin has been reformulated to provide a lower processing temperature, higher flow and a wider processing window than the previous BXT 2000 grade.

Key Features

Excellent impact resistance to minus 40°C
CARB Executive Order Q-08-025
EPA certified
Up to 20% cost reduction over EVOH
Successful trials on 6-layer equipment

CARB Executive Order Q-08-025 allows OEMs to use the material without needing to undergo costly and lengthy tank permeation testing. Fuel tanks using this three-layer design have also been approved by EPA.

Average Permeability Rates Over 28 Days

When exposed to CM15 fuel for 5,000 hours at 60°C, Ixef BXT 2000 showed low weight gain, little dimensional change and excellent retention of mechanical properties. Additional testing to confirm the material’s long-term compatibility with Fuel C, CE10, CE85, B20 SME, B20 RME and No. 2 diesel are near completion.