EBA (EBA)

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EBA is Ethylene Butyl Acrylate.  Basically to make EBA, polyethylene is blended with a liquid called butyl acrylate to create EBA.  In short EBA is a soft flexible ethylene that can be moulded or extruded on its own to create flexible components.  It can also be blended with other polymers as an additive to improve physical properties.

If you process thermoplastics you can benefit from Lucobit EBA.  It is extremely versatile and can be used in a very diverse range of applications to give the following benefits:

Injection Moulding and Blow Moulding

Impact modification and cold temperature impact improvement.

 

Acts as a compatibiliser to bond different plastics together that would not normally mix.

 

Lucofin EBA has excellent polarity and can be overmoulded onto other polymers.

 

Blown film extrusion. 

 

Improve tear strength, puncture and splitting resistance.

Stretch properties are greatly improved. 

Increased film strength

 

Extruder production speed can be improved.

 

Welding and sealing properties of EBA are excellent even when tainted with fats and oils.

Excellent polarity for use as a tie layer and multi-layer film.

Easier to process than metallocene and allows for downgauging film while maintaining strength

Higher temperature resistance and more thermally stable than EVA.

Sheet extrusion and Thermoforming

Cold temperature impact making sheet far less brittle, ideal for production of freezer trays

Increased flexibility and ductility.

Can be used to modify impact of APET.

Excellent polarity for multi-layer sheet

Compounding / Masterbatch. 

Excellent polarity and compatibility with all thermoplastics.

Excellent  dispersion of pigment

Other Uses

Hot melt applications

Bitumen modification

Waterproof membranes

Swimming pool liners