Estane® Engineered Polymers

Film and Sheet

Estane® aliphatic and aromatic engineered polymers are available in polyester, polyether, and polycaprolactone grades to meet a variety of performance requirements for extruded film and sheet applications. It is used in a wide range of thicknesses from 0.5-mil film to 50-mil sheet.

Polyester-based engineered polymers exhibit excellent oil, fuel, and solvent resistance, high temperature performance, as well as good UV and hydrolytic stability. Polyether-based engineered polymers exhibit excellent low-temperature properties, hydrolysis, and fungus resistance.

Key end-use markets include:

square_cut_food

Conveyor Belts

Estane Engineered Polymers offer a wide range of resins for making state-of-the-art conveyor belts.  Polyesters, polyethers, polycaprolactone and other specialties enable belt manufactures to meet very stringent specifications.

square_cut_bladders

Bladders (Footballs / Basketballs)

Our engineered polymers are engineered to be exceptionally tough. Engineered polymers made from Estane provide high tensile strength and elongation properties relative to other elastomers, while delivering superior resistance to punctures and tears.

square_cut_oil-boom

Oil Booms

Estane Engineered Polymers meet the most severe requirements such as UV stability and resistance to industrial fluids like Oil, hydraulic fluids and lubricants.

square_cut_life-jacket

Rafts & Life Jackets

Textiles with Estane Engineered Polymers are being used as high quality materials in a wide range of applications that require toughness and abrasion resistance.

square_cut_fabric

Textile Applications

Our resins offer unique opportunities for fabric coating products. Topcoats prepared from Estane's solution resins and/or compounds exhibit excellent properties that can be obtained by either direct or transfer coating.

square_cut_waterproof

Waterproof Breathables

Estane Engineered Polymers technology is unique because in film or coated form, it becomes a monolithic barrier to keep water out but still allows moisture vapor to move freely through activated diffusion.

square_cut_firemen

Foul Weather & Protective Gear

Our resins offer unique opportunities for fabric coating products. Topcoats prepared from Estane's solution resins and/or compounds exhibit excellent properties that can be obtained by either direct or transfer coating.

square_cut_tent

Tents

Applications associated with a need for better moisture vapor transmission but maintaining a water/liquid barrier is becoming more prevalent. Estane's High Moisture Vapor Transmission (HMVT) resins can provide the right mix of controller HMVT and barrier along with good weathering properties and fungus resistance.

square_cut_athletic-apparel

Athletic Apparel & Appliqués

In apparel applications the need for performance must be balanced with comfort for the wearer. Estane's HMVT resin properties combine a tough breathable barrier with a quiet and soft hand, stretch for comfort of movement and good low temperature flexibility for those extreme conditions outerwear can see.