Akulon® F236-C

High Viscosity, Lubricated, Food Contact Quality

General Information

Akulon® is our family of high performance polyamide 6 and polyamide 66 materials, used by customers across the world in applications ranging from automotive, electronics & electrical, to furniture and packaging.
We offer Akulon® grades for injection molding, blow molding and extrusion (including barrier film, stock shapes, convoluted tubes, and mono and multi filament).
In molded parts the material offers an excellent balance of easy design and processing with outstanding mechanical properties over a wide temperature range and in diverse conditions. Meanwhile for extrusion the strength, resilience and easy processing of Akulon® sets the market standards.
Special features
Regulatory Affairs
Processing technology
Extrusion

Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
2700
MPa
Yield stress
78
MPa
Yield strain
4.2
%
Strain at break
>50
%
Charpy notched impact strength (+23°C)
6.6
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (-30°C)
3.3
kJ/m²

Thermal properties

Melting temperature (10°C/min)
220
°C
Burning Behav. at 1.5 mm nom. thickn.
HB
class
Thickness tested
1.5
mm
UL recognition
Yes
-
Burning Behav. at 3.0 mm nom. thickn.
HB
class
Thickness tested
3
mm
UL recognition
Yes
-
Relative Temperature Index - electrical
65
°C
RTI electrical (Thickness (1) tested)
1.5
mm
Relative Temperature Index - electrical
65
°C
RTI electrical (Thickness (2) tested)
3
mm
Relative Temperature Index - with impact
65
°C
RTI with impact (Thickness (1) tested)
1.5
mm
Relative Temperature Index - with impact
65
°C
RTI with impact (Thickness (2) tested)
3
mm
Relative Temperature Index - without impact
65
°C
RTI without impact (Thickness (1) tested)
1.5
mm
Relative Temperature Index - without impact
65
°C
RTI without impact (Thickness (2) tested)
3
mm

Other properties

Water absorption
9.5
%
Humidity absorption
2.5
%
Density
1130
kg/m³

Material specific properties

Viscosity number
244
cm³/g

Diagrams

Applications

Stock Shapes for Various Industries

Industry
Industrial equipment
The very high and extreme high viscous Akulon® is suitable for creating large diameter stock shapes}