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Hytrel®  8238 - DuPont Engineering Polymers - 
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Hytrel 8238 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® 8238 is the highest modulus grade, with nominal hardness of 82D. 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
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    Availability
  • Asia Pacific
  • Europe
  • North America
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    Test Standards Available
  • ASTM
  • ISO
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    Additive
  • Antioxidant
  • Heat Stabilizer
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    Features
  • Antioxidant
  • Food Contact Acceptable
  • Good Chemical Resistance
  • Good Creep Resistance
  • Heat Stabilized
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  • High Energy Absorption
  • High Hardness
  • Noise Damping
  • Ultrasonic Weldable
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    Uses
  • Automotive Applications
  • Cast Film
  • Coating Applications
  • Compounding
  • Filaments
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  • Hose
  • Industrial Applications
  • Sheet
  • Tubing
  • Wire & Cable Applications
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    Appearance
  • Light Beige
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    Forms
  • Pellets
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    Processing Method
  • Cast Film
  • Casting
  • Extrusion
  • Extrusion Coating
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  • Filament Extrusion
  • Injection Molding
  • Profile Extrusion
  • Sheet Extrusion
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    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), ASTM (1). This is just a summary of complete data available in IDES' Prospector.
    Features (Alternate Representations) 
    Good Chemical Resistance, Chemical Resistant, High Energy Absorption, Good Creep Resistance, Creep Resistant, Ultrasonic Weldable, High Hardness, Hard, Heat Stabilized, Heat-ageing Stabilized, Heat Ageing Stabilized, Heat-aging Stabilized, Heat Aging Stabilized.
    Uses (Alternate Representations) 
    Tubing, Tube, Wire and Cable Applications, Wire & Cable Applications, Automotive Applications, Automotive Sector, Compounding, Compounds, Cast Film.
    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 8238, Hytrel8238, 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
     
    Hytrel 8238 - DuPont EP - Thermoplastic Copolyester Elastomer Plastic

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