Akulon® N24-GM42

20% Glass Fiber Reinforced, 10% Mineral Reinforced

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
Design challenge
Processing & Shaping of Plastics | Injection molding

Rheological properties

Melt volume-flow rate
16
cm³/10min
Temperature
250
°C
Load
2.16
kg
Melt flow index MFI
15
g/10min
MFI test temperature
250
°C
MFI test load
2.16
kg
Molding shrinkage (parallel)
0.44
%
Molding shrinkage (normal)
1.1
%

Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
8900
MPa
Stress at break
130
MPa
Strain at break
2.7
%
Charpy impact strength (+23°C)
50
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (+23°C)
6.7
kJ/m²

Thermal properties

Melting temperature (10°C/min)
220
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (1.80 MPa)
200
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (0.45 MPa)
215
°C

Other properties

Density
1350
kg/m³