Waldkraiburg/Duluth, July 30 2007. KRAIBURG TPE will present a clear insight into the future of “soft-touch” with the unveiling of its next generation transparent adhesion compounds to K 2007 visitors. The industry-leading innovation will be showcased for the first time alongside KRAIBURG TPE’s solutions for a wide variety of consumer, automotive and industrial applications at Hall 6 Booth A49-1, Messe Düsseldorf, 24-31 October 2007.

KRAIBURG TPE’s transparent adhesion compounds provide the tactile appeal of a soft-touch finish with a high degree of transparency which allows the base product to be clearly seen through the finish. This feature can be further enhanced with colour or by adding metallic or other special effects to create eye-catching, high clarity design elements on final products.

Based on hydrogenated styrene block copolymers (HSBC), the thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounds are unique in offering a previously unattainable level of adhesion to PC and ABS base materials. This opens up innovative design differentiation opportunities to a broad spectrum of end-products. 

Dr Markus Beitzel, Director R&D Kraiburg TPE, comments: “Our transparent adhesion compounds advance the potential of traditional soft-touch finishing, providing a combination of attractive features that can deliver the design differentiation demanded by end-product manufacturers today. K 2007 provides an ideal platform for KRAIBURG TPE to introduce the benefits of this exciting innovation to a broad audience of processors and product designers and manufacturers. “

KRAIBURG TPE’s leading HSBC-based compounds provide cost-effective processing, design benefits and product function advantages to a wide range of markets. The booth will highlight unique, customised solutions developed to meet the needs of specific customers in sectors such as automotive, industry, packaging, medical and consumer, in addition to the latest innovative customer examples based on standardised compounds.

For more information on KRAIBURG TPE’s recent developments visit Hall 6 Booth A49-1, K 2007.

About KRAIBURG TPE
KRAIBURG TPE is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) based on hydrogenated styrene block copolymers (HSBC). Its THERMOLAST® K compounds offer a broad spectrum of advantages including design enhancement, economical processing and expansion of product functions. They offer producers a multitude of qualities such as surface finishes, colors, transparency and a wide range of hardnesses. Over and above that, the compounds made by KRAIBURG TPE offer processing benefits such as good flow properties and excellent adhesion to many industrial thermoplasts.

In addition to standard compounds this global company, headquartered in Germany, also specializes in manufacturing compounds to customer specifications. The THERMOLAST® K compounds can be used either alone or in hard-and-soft combinations with thermoplasts. They can be applied to automotive, industry, packaging, medical and consumer in the form of self-adhesive or in-mold labels. The resins may be worked in an injection process, by extrusion and in some cases a hot-melt process.

KRAIBURG TPE products are available all around the world.  There are sales offices in Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Malaysia and Hong Kong and at the production sites in the USA and Germany. KRAIBURG TPE employs a staff of more than 250 worldwide and is certified as per ISO 9001:2000, ISO/TS 16949:2002 and ISO 14001:2004.

Contact: 
KRAIBURG TPE GmbH & Co. KG
Stefan Schubert
Friedrich-Schmidt-Strasse 2
84478 Waldkraiburg, Germany
Tel:+49 (0) 8638.61-501
Fax:+49 (0) 8638.61-472
Email: stefan.schubert@kraiburg-tpe.com
www.kraiburg-tpe.com