Akulon® Ultraflow K-FPG8

Glass Reinforced, High Flow

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
Injection Molding
Design challenge
Downsizing & Miniaturization
Applications

Rheological properties

Melt volume-flow rate
60
cm³/10min
Temperature
275
°C
Load
5
kg
Melt flow index MFI
75
g/10min
MFI test load
5
kg
Molding shrinkage (parallel)
0.36
%
Molding shrinkage (normal)
0.89
%

Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
11500
MPa
Stress at break
175
MPa
Strain at break
3.5
%
Charpy impact strength (+23°C)
90
kJ/m²
Charpy impact strength (-30°C)
90
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (+23°C)
20
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (-30°C)
13
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
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (parallel)
0.2
E-4/°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (normal)
0.65
E-4/°C

Electrical properties

Relative permittivity (100Hz)
3.5
-
Relative permittivity (1 MHz)
3.3
-
Dissipation factor (100 Hz)
90
E-4
Dissipation factor (1 MHz)
150
E-4
Volume resistivity
>1E13
Ohm*m
Surface resistivity
Ohm
Electric strength
25
kV/mm
Comparative tracking index
V

Other properties

Water absorption
5.7
%
Humidity absorption
1.7
%
Density
1410
kg/m³

Diagrams

Applications

Airbag Containers

Industry
Automotive
  • •} Reliable
  • •} Cost effective
  • •} Heat resistant
  • •} Lightweight
  • •} Function integration
  • •} High flowability enables thin wall designs
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