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Baytubes® - The Material of Choice for Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
Selters. Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA has achieved a significant product development breakthrough. As the first sector company, the specialist in transport packaging is successfully using the trendsetting nano-technology to produce an electrically conductive plastic drum. The drum, known as the F1-Ex-Nano, was developed during the course of a development project using so-called multi-wall carbon nanotubes (by Bayer Material Science®, Baytubes®).
As far as the new product is concerned, it is a further development of the F1-Ex tight-head drum which was introduced two years ago. It is produced using security layer technology which was developed by Schütz, an extrusion blow process, where the drum is plastified in three layers. The thin outer layer contains the carbon nanotubes to create the conductivity.
Because of the specific product characteristics of the multi-wall carbon nanotubes, they too can develop excellent electrical conductivity with a small usage of materials. In future, they will be able to fully replace the carbon black systems which are predominantly used today.
In addition, the use of nanotubes reveals a number of other benefits. The mechanical characteristics of the F1 drum, which were already outstanding, could therefore be improved using the MWCNT. The new nano drum has a very good cold resistance and an excellent resistance to chemicals in comparison with the fill products. Interfering migration procedures between nanotubes and filling goods are excluded, the absolute purity of the product is nevertheless assured. In this way the F1-Ex-Nano drum produced by Schütz also meets the high national and international requirements of food products packaging (LMG / FDA).
On the balance sheet, the many exemplary findings support the intentions of Schütz to continue with the development project and also contemplate using the very promising MWCNT material of the future for its production of other products.
Origin: http://www.schuetz.net/schuetz/en/company/home/index.phtml
