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BASF Engineering Plastics are ideal for use in numerous interior or exterior automotive application ranging from door locking units, door handles, and speaker grills to mirror housings and tail light assemblies. BASF offers a complete line of engineering plastics, from Ultramid® and Capron® Nylons, Nypel® Recycled Nylon, Ultraform® Acetal, to Ultradur® (PBT) and Petra® (PET) Thermoplastic Polyesters, and high-heat Ultrason® S & E Polysulfone and Polyethersulfone. BASF has a brand and grade that will meet your application needs. Use BASF plastics in your next interior exterior application and experience the BASF commitment to material quality, design, sales and technical support.


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Ultramid®

Ultramid® Nylon (polyamide)
In the interior/exterior areas, Ultramid® can be used for gear parts, clutches, clutch thrust bearings. Ultramid® is also used for chassis parts such as steering wheels, steering column mountings, roller bearing cages and fastening clips, Exterior parts such as spoilers, bumpers, singly or combined, door sills, radiator grills, exterior door handles, door-mirror housings and wheel covers and Parts for electrical fittings such as cable harnesses, straps and connectors, headlamp housings, lamp holders and fuse boxes.

Rugged Ultramid® resins also perform in a range of seating components, including seat cushion and seat back frames, seat track adjusters and transmissions, as well as lumbar supports and lumbar and recliner handles. Ultramid® resins’ broad property profile has won successful application in everything from interior and exterior door handles and systems; mirror shells, housings and brackets, pedals, roof racks to front-end modules, multifunction switches, wheel covers and connectors.

 
Nypel 2351 - Convoluted Tubing

Nypel® Recycled Nylon (polyamide)
Nypel recycled nylon injection molding compounds, based on select, post-industrial, recycled polyamide (nylon) feedstocks, are specially formulated to combine quality, performance and processability. Nypel provides molders, converters and automotive manufacturers an environmentally friendly, cost-efficient material that is a reliable source of recycled content for the end vehicle in such applications as wheel covers and hubs, fuel filler pockets, supports and brackets.

 
Ultradur® PBT Ultradur® PBT (thermoplastic polyester)
Ultradur® can be found in housings and functional parts in electric drives, housings and mountings for various electrical and electronic components, and connectors.
 
Petra 230 - Automotive Door Handles Petra® PET (thermoplastic polyester)
Petra thermoplastic polyester is based on 100% post-consumer and post-industrial polyethylene terephthalate (PET), providing molders, converters and automotive manufacturers a high-performance engineering material that is a reliable source of recycled content in interior and exterior applications such as door handle systems, multifunction switches, mirrors, door trim, window lift brackets, roof racks, wiper tubs and numerous automotive electrical/electronic components.
 
 
   
Ultraform® Acetal

Ultraform® Acetal (polyoxymethylene)
In the interior/exterior area, Ultraform® can be found in gas filler caps, tank level sensors, gasoline pump housings and parts, valves, seat-belt release buttons, windshield wiper clips, loudspeaker grilles, suspension stabilizer links, levers and rods, sun roof frames, ball sockets, roll-over valves and wash nozzles.

 
Ultrason® PSU/PES Ultrason® PSU/PES (polysulfone/polyethersulfone)
In the Interior/Exterior market, Ultrason® can be found in fuse holders, headlamp housings/reflectors, Electric circuit breaker parts, gear shift forks, and other Automotive electronics.

 

 

 

     
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