Reduce Cost with Maxelast® P2 Series of TPE's

Alliance Polymers & Services (APS), the exclusive North American distributor of Maxelast® brand of TPEs used by leading products manufacturers*, has introduced their new line of thermoplastic elastomers to help designers and processors significantly reduce their TPE costs with low prices for less demanding applications.

“Rising prices across the board for thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) prompted technicians at Maxelast to develop a series of low-cost grades  that process, perform and look like more expensive grades,” says Ron Sheu, TPE Marketing Manager at APS.  “They are ideally suited for designers and processors who don’t necessarily want or need the increasingly high prices for overmolding (onto PP) or stand-alone applications such as tool grips, pen grip and other stationery products, personal care items, and luggage handles.”

Maxelast® P2 Series of TPE Pen Grips

“As marketers and manufacturers continue to be squeezed by raising prices of engineering and specialty polymers,” continues the APS spokesman, “ the introduction of the Maxelast P2 line of TPEs, offered  at up to 30% less than they currently are paying means they can either hold, or reduce, end product pricing to remain competitive.  Maxelast has been able to achieve this pricing breakthrough by using the latest production efficiencies and keeping extra/not needed elements out of the formulations.”

Features and specifications of the new P2 low end Maxelast TPEs include good colorability, a Shore A hardness range of 20A to 90A, a tensile strength of 120 psi (ASTM D412) and a tear strength of 340 pli.  APS can provide samples on request for molding trials and can ship small to large production runs of the TPE.

Polymax's TPE material complies with UL, VDE, FDA, RoHS and PAH's standards.

Nike, Adidas, Stanley, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Buick, and VW to name a few use Maxelast® thermoplastic elastomers.  Find out why Maxelast® is North America’s newest and fastest-growing line of TPEs .

For samples, material specifications, pricing and deliveries, contact Ron Sheu at 734-710-6704 or sheu@apstpe.com  
 

Alliance Polymers & Services (APS) is a full service warehousing, distribution, and technical service organization dedicated to helping TPE & TPU processors with all their product and technical support needs.  APS currently markets and supports Polymax Maxelast® TPEs and BASF Elastollan® TPUs. APS is destined to be your #1 TPE resource in North America. Visit our web site www.apstpe.com

Polymax® Maxelast® C4900 TPE, Transparent

Uses:

• Consumer Products
• Toys & Novelties
• Auto Parts
• Sporting Goods
• Wire & Cable Electronics
• Medical Devices
• Plastic Toughening

Available Properties:

• Specific Gravity
• Linear Mold Shrinkage, Flow
• Hardness, Shore A
• Hardness, Shore C
• Tensile Stress
• Tensile Strength, Yield
• Elongation at Break
• Tear Strength

Polymax's TPE material complies with UL, VDE, FDA, RoHS and PAH's standards.

Nike, Adidas, Stanley, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Buick, and VW to name a few use Maxelast® thermoplastic elastomers.  Find out why Maxelast® is North America’s newest and fastest-growing line of TPEs .

For samples, material specifications, pricing and deliveries, contact Ron Sheu at 734-710-6704 or sheu@apstpe.com
 

Alliance Polymers & Services (APS) is a full service warehousing, distribution, and technical service organization dedicated to helping TPE & TPU processors with all their product and technical support needs.  APS currently markets and supports Polymax Maxelast® TPEs and BASF Elastollan® TPUs. We are destined to be your #1 TPE resource in North America. Visit our web site www.apstpe.com

Maxelast® TPEs from Polymax

Polymax offers more than 500 standard and custom grades of thermoplastic elastomers (SEBS-based) sold under the Maxelast® trade name.  They compete favorably with  any TPE currently on the market, in quality, processability, availability, flexibility and  price.

For more information on the new Maxelast® TPEs, contact:

Ron Sheu
Alliance Polymers & Services, LLC
30735 Cypress Road, Suite 400
Romulus, MI 48174
Tel: 734-710-6704
Web: www.apstpe.com.   Email: sheu@apstpe.com

APS Now Offers Quality TPEs at Competitive Pricing!

Consider Maxelast® thermoplastic elastomer.  Maxelast® TPE is now available from North American distributor and elastomers resource Alliance Polymers & Services (APS).

Maxelast® thermoplastic elastomers offer these advantages:


Maxelast Brochure

·       Broad selection & custom formulas

·       Proven performance and consistency

·       Ease of processing

·       Experienced  technical support

·       Competitive pricing

·       Quick delivery

Buick, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Addidas, Nike and VW use Maxelast® thermoplastic elastomers.  Find out why Maxelast® is North America’s newest and fastest-growing line of TPEs at www.apstpe.com/tpe.

For samples, specs, deliveries and schedules contact Ron Sheu at 734-710-6704. 

APS – Destined to be your #1 TPE resource in North America.  

Fitness Grips

Alliance Polymers & Services (APS) is a full service warehousing, distribution, and technical service organization dedicated to helping TPE, TPU and other elastomer marketers and processors with all their product and technical support needs.  APS currently markets and supports Polymax Maxelast® TPEs and BASF Elastollan® TPUs. 

  

Tool Grips

For more information on conventional, unique or highly durable applications, contact: 

Alliance Polymers & Services (APS)

30735 Cypress Road, Suite 400

Romulus, MI 48174

734-710-6700

Email: info@apstpe.com



Visit our web site www.apstpe.com 

NEWS FROM APS, NORTH AMERICA’S EXCLUSIVE TPE DISTRIBUTOR AND TECH SERVICE SUPPLIER

Introducing Maxelast TPEs

For the first time, TPE users in North America can now obtain renowned Maxelast® thermoplastic elastomers (SEBS) that have taken the industry by storm.  They are used extensively in the Far East by leading American, European and Asian manufacturers such as, Buick, Nike, Nokia, Panasonic, VW, Samsung and dozens of other leading industrial and consumer products companies.  Maxelast TPEs are manufactured by Polymax and distributed exclusively in North America by APS. APS is the #1 TPE technical resource in the US and Canada.

Available for samples and immediate delivery, Maxelast standard grades comprise 7 families of quality TPEs that are comparable or exceed any TPE you are using.  Maxelast can be shipped from either our Detroit-based warehouse or any one of our other storage locations throughout the continent; and backed by our nationwide team of trained technical experts. 

For a brochure on this exciting new TPE line, give us a call or go to our website at www.apstpe.com and print out a copy. 

Ron Sheu Joins APS

Ron Sheu, the TPE “guru” with BASF for the past decade, has joined APS to spearhead the Maxelast effort in North America.  His impressive biography can be found on our website.

Ron Sheu

Sheu notes, “This new TPE families were developed to aggressively compete with major lines of leading international competitors.  What sets Maxelast TPEs apart is their competitive price and excellent performance.  As such, designers, OEM markets and products now have a viable volume producer for small and large orders.  We challenge the industry to take a look at us to see the advantages we are giving them on pricing, delivery, range of formulations and technical backup.”

New TPU Offerings in New Products

Flextrax

The APS line of Elastollan® TPUs from BASF can be found in two new applications.  Snow, ice, mud and sand tire chains made out of rugged thermoplastic polyurethane!  Skeptical? You shouldn’t be.  Advanced Traction Systems (www.flextrax.com) have driven the chains over 300 miles on dry pavement without showing any wear.  Try that with metal chains!

Nanoflex Horseshoes

Another recent application is a line of horseshoes from fast-growing Florida firm Nanoflex.  For the first time, owing to APS expertise and the formulators at BASF, shoes for horses no longer need to be metal.  Read about this exciting new application at www.nanoflexinc.com.

We’re going to NPE!

North America’s big plastics show (NPE) is coming in 2012 to Orlando, Florida. We’ve signed up to be a major exhibitor in the TPE Pavilion at this show.  We’d like to highlight your TPE product at our booth. If you have something you want to submit as an entry, or have a new TPE product coming along, let us know.

Did You Know?

1.       In only our second year in business, we remain the ONLY elastomers distributor to focus exclusively on TPEs.  All types of TPEs too.  Just ask and we’ll find you, or make for you, the TPE that is ideally suited for your new or existing product needs.  We’re grateful to the industry for their support of our recent growth in people, products, technical service and yes, customer service.  We want your business, large or small and work hard not just to get it, but to keep it.

twin screw

2.      In 2009 we announced to the industry APS would be getting into the compounding business, to either formulate or tweak a given TPE compound so customers could get the EXACT material they needed.  We’re targeting sometime this year to be up and running.