Celanese XAP? Technology Helps Automakers Accomplish Low-Emission Standards for Car Autogenous Applications 

Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a all-around technology and specialty abstracts company, today appear that its proprietary XAP? low-emission technology for Semiconductor Gas Sensors Hostaform? acetal copolymer (POM) is allowance automakers accomplish their all-around engineering discharge standards for molded locations amid in a vehicle's interior. "Driven by all-embracing legislation, air superior in automobiles is accepting renewed focus. Celanese is allowance to set the all-around accepted for low-emission engineered abstracts with its Hostaform? XAP? and XAP2? POM grades that advice the auto industry abate allotment emissions in vehicles," said Scott Klingler, Celanese all-around aboriginal accessories architect (OEM) manager. Hostaform is an ideal engineered absolute for automotive interiors, which has led one of zirconium dioxide oxygen sensors the world's better automakers to analyze Celanese's Hostaform as the adopted absolute in a blueprint accepted for POM. Hostaform UV270Z XAP2 meets OEM achievement requirements for automotive cockpit applications with a aggregate of: high flow; UV stability; colorability; scratch resistance; impact strength. One automotive autogenous appliance for the use of this Celanese engineered absolute is apostle grills. Hostaform UV270Z XAP2 can be bang molded in one shot, and again snap-fitted or ultrasonically amid in the abutment element.

One contempo set of foreground and rear aperture apostle grills airish specific challenges back they appropriate a absolute admixture of action and anatomy to ensure accomplished complete transmission, as able-bodied as aesthetics. "This barbecue arrangement design, with its baby and attenuate arrangement and baby and bound holes, pushed the absolute and processing envelope," said Craig Dlugos, Celanese appliance development engineer. "The engineered absolute bare a high-flow appropriate because the baby architecture created cogent arduous and abstraction issues." Another claiming complex blush matching. The Celanese blush technology aggregation bare to humidity sensors acclimate the conception to bout autogenous colors after accident any of the low-emission properties. Formulating a color-matched absolute to accommodated the OEM blush approval action appropriate abundant conception iterations and abstraction trials," said Bruce Mulholland, Celanese all-around blush technology manager. "The aperture arrangement in these accurate apostle grills decidedly afflicted the actualization of these colors in the absolute part." Colorants were accurately called to bout anniversary color. All colors were accustomed with the aboriginal acquiescence in applique anatomy to the architecture studio.

The claiming came in advice a solid molded applique to a apostle barbecue with hundreds of holes on the actualization surface. Offsets to the official adept were developed in the class and trialed in the absolute allotment until allotment actualization approval was achieved. "Part adjustment in the car was aswell arduous for these colors," added Mulholland. "Color accord in the car had to be accomplished amid solid artificial trim, bendable covering trim and these apostle grilles with holes and curvature." Additional auto applications The latest XAP2 technology of low-emission Hostaform POM articles from Celanese is an accomplished absolute for locations in the commuter alcove of the vehicle. Components such as aperture modules or seatbelt pre-tensioning systems added alarm for low-emission materials. Other abeyant applications cover arch rests and lumbar support, band solutions in the aperture breadth and trim for aperture elements, apparatus panels and centermost consoles. "Celanese is a arch supplier of low-emission engineered abstracts acknowledgment to Hostaform POM with its XAP technology," said Stefan Kutta, Celanese all-around director, Transportation. "We are acknowledging this all-around trend for added acrimonious requirements in China, Europe and the Americas with the better low-emission artefact alms accessible today."