Akulon® S240-C

Food Contact Quality, High Viscosity

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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
  • High viscosity
General Document
Regulatory Affairs
  • Absence Declaration BNST2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration Biocidal Products2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration DMF (2009/251/EC: Dimethylfumarate)2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration ELV (2000/53/EC: Heavy metals)2024-02-15
  • Absence Declaration EPA 20 High Priority Substances 20192023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration Food Allergens2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration NMP (N-Methylpyrrolidone)2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration Nano Materials2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration Ozone Depleting Chemicals2024-04-25
  • Absence Declaration PAH (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration PBT chemicals under TSCA section 6(h)2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration PFAS2024-03-05
  • Absence Declaration POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants)2023-10-27
  • Absence Declaration Phthalates (2005/84/EC: DEHP, DBP, BBP,DINP,DIDP, DNOP)2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration Red Phosphorus2023-11-16
  • Absence Declaration opBDE (2003/11/EC: Octa- / Pentabromodiphenylether)2023-11-16
  • CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 (NDS)2024-01-02
  • Conflict minerals declaration (EICC, GeSI)2024-03-21
  • Food Contact Canada Information (LONO)2019-07-08
  • Food Contact Declaration Europe Akulon®2023-08-10
  • Food Contact Declaration MERCOSUR Akulon®2023-04-18
  • Food Contact Declaration USA Akulon®2023-11-21
  • Food Contact India Information Letter2023-05-11
  • Packaging, Packaging Waste and CONEG declaration (94/62/EC)2021-12-06
  • REACH Registration Statement2024-03-27
  • REACH STATEMENT KOREA2023-11-16
  • REACH STATEMENT TURKYE2023-11-16
  • RoHS Statement (2011/65/EC: Heavy metals)2024-02-01
  • SVHC, REACH Annex XIV and –XVII Statement2024-03-27
  • Turkish customs legislation info letter (EK-8 form)2023-11-16
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Processing technology
Extrusion, Injection Molding
Applications
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Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
3000
MPa
Yield stress
80
MPa
Yield strain
4
%
Nominal strain at break
>50
%
Stress at break
58
MPa
Charpy impact strength (+23°C)
N
kJ/m²
Charpy impact strength (-30°C)
N
kJ/m²

Thermal properties

Melting temperature (10°C/min)
260
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (1.80 MPa)
70
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (0.45 MPa)
215
°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (parallel)
0.9
E-4/°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (normal)
0.9
E-4/°C
Burning Behav. at 3.0 mm nom. thickn.
V-2
class
Thickness tested
3
mm
UL recognition
Yes
-
Relative Temperature Index - electrical
65
°C
RTI electrical (Thickness (1) tested)
3
mm
Relative Temperature Index - with impact
65
°C
RTI with impact (Thickness (1) tested)
3
mm
Relative Temperature Index - without impact
65
°C
RTI without impact (Thickness (1) tested)
3
mm

Electrical properties

Relative permittivity (100Hz)
3.6
-
Relative permittivity (1 MHz)
3.3
-
Dissipation factor (100 Hz)
90
E-4
Dissipation factor (1 MHz)
220
E-4
Volume resistivity
1E13
Ohm*m
Electric strength
25
kV/mm

Other properties

Water absorption
9
%
Humidity absorption
2.5
%
Density
1140
kg/m³

Material specific properties

Viscosity number
280
cm³/g
Solvent
Sulphuric acid (96%)
-

Other properties (Film)

Oxygen transmission rate at 23°C/0%r.h.
27
cm³/(m²*d*bar)
Oxygen transmission rate at 23°C/85%r.h.
41
cm³/(m²*d*bar)
Water Vapor Transmission Rate at 23°C/85%r.h.
24
g/(m²*d)

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Applications

Smokable Sausage Casings

Industry
Consumer goods
Material
  • •} Highly breathable
  • •} Bio-based alternative that reduces carbon footpring by 50 percent
  • •} High-temperature resistance
  • •} Excellent processing characteristics
  • •} Lowest carbon footprint of PA6 available on the market
  • •} Yields faster moulding than standard PA6
  • •} Enables thinner wall designs.
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