From Flame Retardant Wires and Cables to High Performance Consumer Products

Needing to achieve color, property and performance requirements for your specific application? We can support you with our broad portfolio of specialty base polymers and additives, technical expertise and an expansive distribution network. From modifiers to polymers, we can cover your compounding requirements for various applications including wire and cable, automotive light-weighting, building materials, medical, consumer goods, industrial machinery, electronics and much more.

 

Whether it's matching a specific color or creating a polymer blend that meets the needed physical property requirements, Nexeo Plastics Technical Solutions team understands no two applications are alike and partners with you to understand materials required to achieve results.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What is plastic compounding?

Plastic compounding is the process of blending polymer with additives, fillers, reinforcements, or colorants to enhance or customize the material's properties for specific applications. This process can improve mechanical strength, thermal resistance, flame retardancy, color, and numerous other properties. 

What are the benefits of plastic compounding?

Plastic compounding enables manufacturers to create materials tailored to specific performance, processing, and regulatory requirements. Some benefits include:

  • Improved product performance
  • Enhanced durability and heat resistance
  • Better processability during manufacturing
  • Regulatory compliance

What industries use compounding solutions?

Industries such as automotive, healthcare, electronics, and packaging rely on plastic compounding solutions to enhance the properities and performance of their products. 

Material Expertise

Material Expertise

We provide a large portfolio of base polymer and additive solutions that, when formulated, deliver the characteristics (strength, rigidity, color, processability, temperature resistance, anti-microbial, flame retardancy, etc.) that you rely on.

Material solutions for compounding include:

  • General Compounds
  • Acrylic Compounds
  • Color Compounds
  • Engineered Compounds
  • Flame-Retardant Compounds
  • High Temperature, Low-Smoke/Zero Halogen PVC Compounds
  • Ignition Resistant High Impact Polystyrene (IRHIPS) Compounds
  • Ignition Resistant Polystyrene and Compound

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