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Hytrel® 5556 - DuPont Engineering Polymers -

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DuPont Engineering Polymers
USA Office Headquarters
E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.
Wilmington, DE 19898
USA
Phone: 302-999-4592

Hytrel 5556 by DuPont Engineering Polymers is a TPC-ET (Thermoplastic Copolyester Elastomer) plastic material. This plastic material has approval for 2 Automotive Specifications.

General Information

Product Description

Hytrel® 5556 is a medium modulus grade with nominal hardness of 55D. It contains non-discoloring stabilizer. It can be processed by many conventional thermoplastic processing techniques like injection molding and extrusion.

General

Material Status

Commercial: Active

Availability

Asia Pacific

Europe

North America

Test Standards Available

ASTM

ISO

Additive

Antioxidant

Heat Stabilizer

Features

Antioxidant

Food Contact Acceptable

Good Creep Resistance

Heat Stabilized

High Energy Absorption

Medium Hardness

Noise Damping

Uses

Automotive Applications

Cast Film

Coating Applications

Compounding

Filaments

Hose

Industrial Applications

Sheet

Tubing

Wire & Cable Applications

Appearance

Light Beige

Forms

Pellets

Powder

Processing Method

Cast Film

Casting

Extrusion

Extrusion Coating

Filament Extrusion

Injection Molding

Profile Extrusion

Sheet Extrusion

Other Information for this Plastic
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Automotive Specifications
This plastic material has approval for 2 automotive specifications from the following agencies (the number in parentheses shows the number of specifications for that agency): GM (1), FORD (1). This is just a summary of complete data available in IDES' Prospector.
Features (Alternate Representations)
Heat Stabilized, Heat-ageing Stabilized, Heat Ageing Stabilized, Heat-aging Stabilized, Heat Aging Stabilized, Good Creep Resistance, Creep Resistant, High Energy Absorption, Medium Hardness.
Uses (Alternate Representations)
Tubing, Tube, Cast Film, Wire and Cable Applications, Wire & Cable Applications, Automotive Applications, Automotive Sector, Compounding, Compounds.
Spelling Variations
The terms listed below may be used to identify this product. They are provided to assist you in finding pertinent documentation from supplier and non-supplier sources. They are included for informational purposes only, and are typically NOT representations that have been specified by the supplier. Possible spelling variations for terms related to this product are: Hytrel 5556, Hytrel5556, Hytrel® , Hytrel, Thermoplastic Copolyester Elastomer, ThermoplasticCopolyesterElastomer, TPC-ET, TPCET, TPC:ET, TPC/ET, TPC+ET, TPC_ET, TPC ET, Thermoplastic Elastomer, ThermoplasticElastomer, TPE, DuPont EP

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