Manufacturing companies strive to reduce raw material costs and part weights. Trinseo, a material solutions provider and manufacturer of latex binders, plastics and synthetic rubber, launched a lightweight plastic that replaces metal in semi-structural components. The new long-glass-fiber-reinforced acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS LGF) alloy provides thirty percent weight savings compared to aluminum or magnesium. Trinseo will present the ABS LGF alloy at VDI’s Plastics in Autom…
Source URL: Trinseo Unveils a Lightweight ABS LGF for Semi-Structural Car Components
Source Website: Advance Engineering – Engineering.com