Akulon® S222

Low Viscosity, Neat resin, Food Contact Quality

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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
  • Low viscosity
General Document
Processing technology
Injection Molding
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Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
3600
MPa
Yield stress
95
MPa
Yield strain
3.5
%
Nominal strain at break
10
%
Flexural modulus
2800
MPa
Flexural strength
125
MPa
Charpy notched impact strength (+23°C)
6
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (-30°C)
6
kJ/m²

Thermal properties

Melting temperature (10°C/min)
260
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (1.80 MPa)
85
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (0.45 MPa)
215
°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (parallel)
1
E-4/°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (normal)
1
E-4/°C

Other properties

Water absorption
8.5
%
Humidity absorption
2.3
%
Density
1140
kg/m³

Material specific properties

Viscosity number
130
cm³/g