Consumer Electronics Devices
Advanced Bio-Circular materials for Consumer Electronics
Super high rigidity materials for structural components
Advanced Bio-Circular Rilsan® PA11 resins offer incredible strength, durability, lightweight, chemical resistance, easy processing, and recyclability. Used for all types of components and parts, Rilsan® PA11 has numerous applications when the job calls for extreme performance for sustainability-minded engineers. Glass fibers and carbon fibers filled materials available.
Key benefits
- Tensile modulus up to 21 GPa
- Excellent dimensional stability - low warpage
- High quality feel - great surface aspect, even without coating
- Excellent chemical resistance
- Easy coloration
- Flame-resistant (HFFR) grades available
- Easy processing, even at low thicknesses
FOCUS ON: Smartwatch components
Selecting high-performance materials is crucial in the design of high-end smartwatches and their components. These materials ensure durability, reliability, and longevity, which are essential for devices that are frequently exposed to various environmental conditions and daily wear. Advanced Bio-Circular materials contribute to the overall user experience by providing strength and toughness while maintaining a high quality feel and lightweight profile to enhance comfort.
Key applications
- Transparent covers/sensors
- Textile bands/straps
- Bezel, casing, structural parts
Key benefits
- Chemical & environmental stress cracking resistance
- Clarity and good surface aspect
- Good colorability and range of fillers for unique design
- Sustainability – bio-based and recyclable
Ultralight materials for enhanced designs
Arkema's advanced ultralight polymers offer exceptional strength-to-weight ratios, allowing for the creation of durable yet lightweight products. This enhances portability, user comfort as well as reducing the overall weight, leading to longer battery life. Their versatility and adaptability make them ideal for integrating advanced technologies without compromising on performance or aesthetics, ultimately leading to more efficient, reliable, and user-friendly consumer electronics..
Key benefits
- Density as low as 0,8
- Enhances user comfort, helps reduce energy consumption of devices
- Easy processing
- Good ductility
FOCUS ON: Virtual reality headsets
As augmented and virtual reality technologies become more prevalent, so do the challenges associated with the physical world. High-performance materials are crucial in new designs to ensure a positive user experience. This requires the use of extra durable materials that are strong and tough, yet lightweight and resistant to fatigue. Our Advanced Bio-Circular materials enable high performance while also offering the benefits of reduced carbon emissions and recyclability.
Key applications
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Headband and supports
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Glasses frames
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Overmoldings for soft touch and feel
Key benefits
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Chemical resistance (e.g. sweat and body salts)
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Flex fatigue resistance and good shape recovery
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Shock and scratch resistance
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Overall durability with added comfort for user
- Sustainability – Bio-based, recyclable, easy processing > low scrap rate
Further reducing carbon footprint: recycled grades
Our certified recycled offer, part of our Virtucycle® program, covers PA11, PA12 and PEBA containing from 30% to 95% minimum recycled content.
Key benefits
- Ideal for external aesthetic parts (housing)
- Sustained premium mechanical performance and durability
- Further reduction of the carbon footprint of materials
Transparent materials
Whether used for aesthetic and glossy external part or internal structural parts, Rilsan® Clear transparent polyamides have numerous applications when the job calls for extreme performance and beautiful design.
Key benefits
- High transparency, clarity and shininess
- Lightweight
- Flexural or fatigue resistance for enhanced durability
- Chemical resistance
- Design freedom and easy coloration
Further innovative material solutions for consumer electronics
Pebax® Thermoplastic elastomers
Pebax® TPE products provide tunable flexibility, extreme fatigue resistance along with soft feel and durability ideal for certain protective cases, cables or watch bands.
Bio-based Pebax® Rnew® from castor oil available.
More about Pebax® Thermoplastic elastomers
Key benefits
- Lightweight
- Wide range of flexibility
- Fatigue & impact resistance
- Soft touch, easy coloration
- Overmolding possible with Rilsan® PA11 and Rilsan® Clear grades
Rilsan® PA11 Textile solutions
Rilsan® PA11 can also be used as high performance, soft and durable textiles for smartwatch bands or surface covers for high quality feel.
More information on Rilsan® PA11 for textiles
Rilsan® PA11 for Additive manufacturing
Additive manufacturing is a powerful tool for achieving higher levels of customization and production of complex designs that traditional manufacturing methods cannot accomplish. Our range of Advanced Bio-Circular materials unlocks innovative ways to design parts, enabling design flexibility and supporting sustainability through the use of bio-based materials.
Advanced Bio-Circular Materials for Consumer Electronics
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Our flagship ABC Materials Rilsan® polyamide 11, Rilsan® Clear Rnew® Polyamide 11, Pebax® Rnew® Elastomers for consumer electronics applications. Discover how advanced materials can help you to achieve sustainability goals in consumer electronics.
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Arkema is a global specialist in the field of high-performance materials and a long-standing partner of the electronics industry, providing materials expertise along the entire value chain, from the manufacture of chips and printed circuits to the final assembly of devices with high-performance adhesives.