GE Plastics has announced a new range of resins including one type which facilitates powder coating and another which has aviation applications.

Its conductive Noryl GTX resins have officially joined GE’s growing ecomagination product portfolio, the company announced.
These new, environmentally responsible materials are optimised for powder coating: they contain conductive fillers that eliminate the need to apply an electrostatic primer, which can emit harmful solvents and related compounds into the air. In powder-coating applications, Noryl GTX resins can replace metal substrates, eliminating costly and potentially hazardous chemical pre-treatments and offering increased design freedom. Also, the Noryl resin grades make it possible to powder-coat metal and plastic on the same production line for economies of scale and uniform aesthetics.
“Powder coating is a fast-growing technology due to its environmental benefits, particularly the elimination of solvents and related compounds that are emitted into the air in conventional liquid paint,” said Kristie Dolan, ecomagination leader, GE Plastics.
“GE Plastics’ conductive Noryl GTX resin grades make powder-coating plastic parts more practical by eliminating the cost, time, and environmental concerns of electrostatic primers. Our unique Noryl GTX resins open new opportunities for design innovation and production efficiencies.”
The Noryl GTX conductive resin family is an excellent candidate for powder coating applications such as furniture, marine engine components, automotive, and non-auto transportation, as well as electrical and lighting devices. Noryl GTX resins include flame-retardant and non-flame-retardant grades, as well as glass- and mineral-filled materials. They can be processed in injection molding machines, as well as via extrusion.
GE also launched three other products with applications in aviation.
To help the aerospace industry boost fuel efficiency, performance, and safety, GE Plastics announced new flame-retardant Ultem 9085 resin for aircraft interiors.
This new material offers better flow and ductility than GE’s Ultem 9075 resin – the previous industry standard – to enable thinner-wall parts with excellent impact strength. Further comparing the two materials, new Ultem 9085 resin can reduce part weight by 5 to 15 per cent via thinner walls, supporting the goal of lower fuel consumption. At the same time, Ultem 9085 resin delivers the highest modulus of any Ultem resin grade, providing enhanced stiffness to ensure excellent application durability.
Another product it launched is the new Noryl LS6010 resin offering aircraft OEMs and suppliers an advanced, high-tech solution to the challenges of compliance with toughening global flame, smoke, and toxicity requirements. In addition, Noryl LS6010 resin has a specific gravity of 1.1, which is one of the lowest available for thermoplastics used in aerospace. Its light weight characteristic, combined with extremely low smoke performance, exceptional durability, and non-halogenated flame retardance (FR), make this innovative new material a superior choice vs many competitive materials for interior aircraft applications, such as rub strips and seat track covers, where low smoke propagation is mandated.
The third product it announced with aviation applications is the Lexan FST9705 polycarbonate (PC) copolymer, a totally new resin platform to help OEMs and aircraft interior suppliers achieve weight-out and cost-out goals without sacrificing processability. Complementing GE Plastics’ high-performance Ultem PEI flame-retardant resins, this new material is said to give designers a fresh solution to today’s stringent performance, regulatory, and aesthetic requirements.