Akulon® F230-C

Medium Viscosity, Extrusion, Injection Molding

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
Extrusion, Injection Molding

Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
3300
MPa
Yield stress
85
MPa
Yield strain
4
%
Nominal strain at break
35
%
Charpy impact strength (+23°C)
N
kJ/m²
Charpy impact strength (-30°C)
N
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (+23°C)
7
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (-30°C)
4
kJ/m²

Thermal properties

Melting temperature (10°C/min)
220
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (1.80 MPa)
60
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (0.45 MPa)
150
°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (parallel)
1
E-4/°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (normal)
1.4
E-4/°C

Other properties

Water absorption
9
%
Humidity absorption
2.8
%
Density
1130
kg/m³

Material specific properties

Viscosity number
195
cm³/g

Diagrams