Akulon® S223-HPG5

25% Glass Reinforced, Impact Modified, Heat Stabilized, Resistant to Oil and Grease

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
Injection Molding

Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
7500
MPa
Stress at break
150
MPa
Strain at break
4
%
Flexural modulus
7000
MPa
Flexural strength
225
MPa
Charpy impact strength (+23°C)
85
kJ/m²
Charpy impact strength (-30°C)
50
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (+23°C)
11
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (-30°C)
9
kJ/m²

Thermal properties

Melting temperature (10°C/min)
260
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (1.80 MPa)
245
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (0.45 MPa)
260
°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (parallel)
0.2
E-4/°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (normal)
0.8
E-4/°C

Electrical properties

Relative permittivity (100Hz)
3.7
-
Relative permittivity (1 MHz)
3.3
-
Dissipation factor (100 Hz)
110
E-4
Dissipation factor (1 MHz)
180
E-4
Volume resistivity
1E12
Ohm*m
Surface resistivity
Ohm
Electric strength
35
kV/mm
Comparative tracking index
500
V

Other properties

Water absorption
5.5
%
Humidity absorption
1.6
%
Density
1290
kg/m³

Material specific properties

Viscosity number
140
cm³/g
Solvent
Formic acid (90%)
-

Diagrams