Press Releases

Faster response to customers’ needs and further contribution to sustainability. DSM will open its first application development technical center for engineering plastics in Japan on 26 March 2013 at the Yokohama Business Park in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.

DSM has introduced Stanyl^® ForTii^™ LED LX, an LED (Light Emitting Diode)-specific grade of Stanyl ForTii high temperature polyamide with halogen-free flame retardant grades as a material solution for LED packages.

DSM is celebrating a decade of customer successes with its Akulon® Ultraflow extra-high flow
polyamide 6 in a wide range of applications.

As global life sciences & materials sciences company DSM continues to support its customers’ drive to achieve increasingly ambitious sustainability targets, the company continues to set important benchmarks in lowering its own environmental footprint.

Arnitel^© Eco thermoplastic copolyester from DSM has been used successfully in soft touch surfaces by a world leading manufacturer of consumer electronics. Applied to the surface using a 2K molding technique, enabling cost efficient mass production, Arnitel Eco helps to create an almost skin-like feeling to the surfaces of electronic devices, like notebooks and tablets. The application represents the first use in consumer electronics of this breakthrough material.

As a result of unprecedented and continuing increases in the costs of its raw materials, DSM Engineering Plastics is required to increase prices for its Akulon^® PA6 polymers and compounds in Europe. It will also increase prices for Akulon PA6 compounds in North America.

Air ducts made in Stanyl Diablo OCD 2305 BM are lighter than current solutions in metal or PPS and can handle continuous temperature up to 230 °C.

Outdoor clothing can be made waterproof and highly breathable with ultrathin membranes made from Arnitel^® VT from DSM. Arnitel VT is a very flexible thermoplastic elastomer that, when made into membranes just a few microns thick, is 100% waterproof but also highly breathable and comfortable. The material contains no PFCs (perfluorinated chemicals) and is 100% recyclable.

Three grades of EcoPaXX® polyamide 410 from DSM have been given the “Certified Biobased Product” label awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

DSM has launched a series of new halogen-free flame retardant Stanyl compounds for the electronics market, namely, Stanyl^® SC50 and Stanyl^® MC50. Manufacturers of connectors, sockets and electronics components can now enjoy the traditional strengths of Stanyl products such as toughness and high flow with more reliable and trouble free processability. This new generation of materials incorporates technology to address issues associated with other High Temperature Polyamides. Products are being commercially sold and sample quantities are also available.

DSM has received the ‘Model Enterprise Award’ for the way the company has been building a safety culture at its site in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China.

A new thermally conductive thermoplastic polyester from DSM provides automotive electronics developers and designers with an innovative solution in overcoming heat management issues in such components as foglamp housings, lens holders and AFL (Adaptive Forward Lighting) frames, while minimizing any addition to vehicle weight and fuel consumption. In addition, as future LED Lighting systems do get more efficient and consume less power, this material will offer weight and cost saving potential for these Electronics driven systems as well by its unique combination of heat management, mechanics and high dimensional stability. It is also suitable for numerous types of automotive electronic components.

DSM’s revolutionary cheese-ripening solution, Pack-Age^™ has been awarded Bronze in one of the world’s most competitive packaging innovation contests, ‘De Gouden Noot’. Pack-Age is made from Akulon polyamide 6 which delivers properties critical to the effective ripening and preservation of cheeses. A judging panel of 20 industry experts from across the value chain chose Pack-Age from a shortlist of 10 finalists and 40 entries as the most innovative Business-to-Business (B2B) packaging concept.

The Human Power Team of Dutch cyclists won the 2012 World Human Powered Speed Challenge (from 10 September to 15 September) with the Velox 2. This lightweight, aerodynamic velomobile was developed in partnership with DSM whose extensive knowledge and expertise in materials, health, and nutrition was crucial to the team’s success. A vital component of the Velox 2 was the drive-train incorporating DSM’s Stanyl^®, a high-performance polyamide 46 which helped give the Human Power Team the edge they needed to win.

Akulon^® Fuel Lock, an innovative-polyamide 6 technology developed by DSM, forms the basis of a new solution for rotomoulding monolayer tanks, developed by ICO Polymers, a subsidiary of A. Schulman, Inc. and a leading producer of rotational molding polymers.

Arnitel^® Eco, an innovative, partly bio-based thermoplastic copolyester elastomer (TPC) has won an honorable mention in the 2012 Material ConneXion Material of the Year Award.

Röchling Automotive and DSM are celebrating the 2012 Automotive Innovation Award (Powertrain Segment) from the Society of Plastics Engineers –Europe. The award was received for the first serial production of a DSM Akulon^® based Air-intake Manifold (AIM) with an integrated liquid charged air cooler (LCAC).

DSM has launched a new website, specifically aimed at the Packaging and Graphic Arts industries. The new website, www.dsm.com/packaging-graphic-art highlights the industries’ latest trends and solutions and acts as a knowledge platform for everyone in the value chain - from brand managers, to food processers and film formulation companies.

The Dutch Paralympic cycling team competing at the London Paralympics (from 29 August until 9 September) will be using new, ultra light and strong chains incorporating rollers made of Stanyl polyamide 46. These new chains were developed by DSM, innovation partner of the Dutch Olympic Committee (NOC*NSF), and the Royal Dutch Cycling Union (Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie, KNWU), in collaboration with KMC, the world’s largest manufacturer of bicycle chains.

As a result of continued escalations in the costs of key raw materials, DSM Engineering Plastics Europe will increase prices of its Akulon PA6 resins for packaging and industrial extrusion applications.

Delphi Automotive Systems, a leading Tier One supplier of electronics and technologies to the automotive industry, has approved DSM’s Stanyl^® TW200F6 for the Ignition Connector soldered onto the Ignition Coil specified by an OEM for 4 and 6 cylinder engines.

Baleno, a high-end LED lighting manufacturer with a broad portfolio of LED solutions, has selected Stanyl^® TC from DSM for their complete range of exclusively styled LED retrofit lamps.

DSM has been awarded the Executive Order (EO) for Akulon^® Fuel Lock FL40-HP, a blow moldable, polyamide 6-based mono-material. This award, granted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), certifies that the material meets the low permeation of hydrocarbons requirements for small, off-road engine fuel tanks.

Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, today announced that it is going to invest approximately €100 million in three new R&D facilities in Delft and Sittard-Geleen (both in the Netherlands) over the next two years. 

DSM has announced the winning design in its competition to find a winning sports innovation, designed in Arnitel® Eco.