Consumer durables

Furniture

Arnitel delivers superior comfort and creep performance in seating applications for furniture

Arnitel offers a unique combination of stiffness, elongation and creep resistance for comfortable seating applications. Next to this, it provides strength and comfort for seating components and is easy colored.

Overmolding with Arnitel ensures:

Broad range of hardness to fit any seating comfort requirements.
Excellent creep properties that provides superior comfort longer than other types of TPE
Superior fatigue resistance providing comform of the life of a chair.
Different viscosities that allow for extrusion or injection molding processes.
Good chemical resistance

Providing the right blend of strength, flexibility and comfort

DSM has been able to support Herman Miller with Arnitel® for the seating layers in the Embody® chair. Arnitel® is used in the “global layer” of the seat, providing the right blend of strength, flexibility and comfort for use as one of the key components in the seat’s unique pixilated design.

Herman Miller has used DSM Akulon®, Arnitel®, and Sarlink® materials in similar applications in a number of models including the Equa®, Mirra®, Aeron®, Caper®, Foray®, and Setu® chairs.