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Bringing value and expertise to Consumer Durable applications

If you look closely, you will find our materials being used by you daily. DSM materials are used by the worlds leading manufacturers of consumer goods.

Excellent Aesthetics, Consistency in Quality

DSM Engineering Plastics add value to consumer goods by offering plastics that enable:
•  Design flexibility
•  Aesthetically appealing: can be colored, with excellent surface finish
•  Easy to process with low cycle times

These plastics are :
•  consistent in their quality, ensuring the same specifications on global grades from all our production sites
•  longer lasting, enabling longer warranties on parts where they are used.

Our materials in your daily life

  • Stanyl PA46 is used in ironing boards, and water kettle parts, replacing metals. This ensures greater appeal and at the same time functioning to satisfaction.
  • Arnitel copolyester thermoplastic elastomer gears provide reduced noise in gear trains, improving the consumer' perception of quality. In wine taps Arnitel provides the tight seal needed and has excellent acid and alcohol resistance and does not taint the wine. Arnitel is used as O-rings in high-end watches to ensure water resistance. On handles of tools and appliances, Arnitel imparts a soft-touch feel .
  • Akulon polyamides are used in housings: Power tools and small engine covers (power tools), Furniture components: chair bases, castor wheels; hair curlers bristle holders, blower parts in hair dryers, children pram handles, kitchen tools: tongs, spatulas, hot water stirrers, garlic crushers, agitator pulleys in washing machines; gas canisters for cigarette lighters, etc.
  • Arnite is used in parts of hot-irons, taps, valves, bathroom fittings, in compressor parts for refrigerators, lamp housings, household tools e.g. scissor and knife handles, toaster housings, etc.

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