OUR HIGH-PERFORMANCETHERMOPLASTICS ADDITIVESAND SOLUTIONSADDED VALUE FOR YOURPOLYMERS
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Contents
03 Introduction
05 Customer value at all levels
06 Thermoplastics Industrial
08 Thermoplastics Transportation
10 Innovation, expertise, and service

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Welcome to our global thermoplastics
additives businessWith this brochure, we are providing you withan overview of our extensive high-performance
additives and solutions for thermoplastics.
Our diverse additive portfolio is based on fivewell-established brands and their respective
technologies, with additives suited for a wide
variety of applications and materials. Our markets
include the automotive industry, the electricand electronics sectors as well as construction
and packaging.
As a globally leading additives manufacturer, we arefocused on creating added value for our customers
regardless of their location.

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By structuring our organization in line with markets
and applications, we deliver specialist expertiseto our customers and provide support around theglobe. This also allows us to tailor solutions tospecial requirements. Thanks to this close
collaboration, BYK is in a position to detect newmarket trends early, and to develop innovative
answers accordingly.
We invite you to take a closer look at how ourthermoplastics additives and related services
benefit customers in different markets aroundthe world, and to discover how we can support
your business as well.

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BYK-MAX
Solutions to optimize processing,and solutions to improve material
properties, e.g. flame retardancy
UV stability etc.

Our five
thermoplastics
brandsBYKClassic solutions forwetting & dispersing, air release,rheology & viscosity.

SCONA
Adhesion promoters, compatibilizers,and coupling agents.

CLOISITE
Modified phyllosilicates for use inthermoplastics as flame retardant synergists
and to improve physical properties.

RECYCLOBYKFormulations to increase the qualityof recyclates.

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Customer value at all levels
Thermoplastic materials enjoy a variety of applications worldwide,from the automotive industry to electrical and electronic products andappliances, from the construction business to film and packaging.

In this growing and highly diverse market, we follow a single
mission: to create value for our customers, producers,
converters, compounders, masterbatchers, and recyclers
alike. With five extremely versatile brands, our portfolio
offers the broadest range of processing and performance
additives for thermoplastics in the industry. It is distinguishedby consistently high quality, and improves all levels of theplastics value chain.
Our processing products help reduce complexity in material
handling by making it easier to incorporate additives andtherefore boost production efficiency.
Our performance additives improve material properties,
such as scratch resistance, flame retardancy, thermalstability, UV stability, and nucleation, thereby enhancing
the overall product quality. All our brands are suited for awide range of thermoplastic materials, including polyolefins
and engineering plastics.

Innovative technologies for additive systems
Products include single-component solutions as well as
multi-component blends, comprising up to ten additives.
We also offer customized solutions, tailored in ourthermoplastics labs, to answer the specific demands of ourcustomers. These systems are based on our innovative
compounding, skin-core, and compacting technologies,
which make the additives concentrates particularly easy tohandle during compounding processes. Moreover, thesetechnologies allow for highly loaded additive concentrates.
Global teams and end use specialists
BYK takes an industry-specific approach in order to best
serve customers. Our global thermoplastics additives businessconsists of two global end use teams, Thermoplastics
Industrial and Thermoplastics Transportation. Each is madeup of market, application, lab, and sales specialists, andboth act worldwide. This organization ensures optimal
customer support. What’s more, it guarantees that we apply
our know-how and expertise ultra-efficiently, and it helps
our customers to meet their customers’ demands.

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Thermoplastics Industrial:
added value for many industries
Our global Thermoplastics Industrial end use team serves a broad range of industries
and provides extensive p­ erformance solutions. Applications include cables, film,
food p­ ackaging, structural c­ omponents, and many more. Despite the d­ iversity,
our ­additives share some common c­ haracteristics: they are safe to handle,
easy to ­dose, and display consistently high quality.

Thermal stabilization

Flame retardancy

Engineering plastics based on polyamides need to show
a number of properties, including heat resistance, whenused as structural components in the electrical and theautomotive industry. In polyamides and polypropylenes,
the highest thermal demands can be achieved using ourBYK-MAX HS additives. BYK-MAX HS 4300 provides
exceptional thermal resistance.

Flame retardancy is a significant field of application forour performance additives. Our BYK-MAX FR products
offer a wide range of flame retardants, while some of our
BYK-MAX CT additives provide flame retardants synergists
for different polymer applications. Also included are highly
efficient halogen-free additives to reach the V0 levels inpolyolefin products and UL standard 94 V0 in polyamides.
For PE products used in film and fiber, our BYK-MAX FR 4144
additive combines flame retardancy with other properties,such as UV stability, resulting in a longer service life of thefinal product.
To help our customers comply with the most stringent
fire standards for cable formulations, we provide easy-todisperse flame retardant synergists, which add a further
benefit to the compounds. The phyllosilicate-based additives
boost the mechanical properties of the materials, especiallytensile strength and elongation at break.

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Processing additives
Our broad range of processing additives improves processes
and products alike. Products in the BYK-MAX portfolio help
reduce friction between the polymer melt and the internal
metal surfaces of processing equipment, without negatively
affecting the mechanical properties of the end product.
In extrusion processes and in solid masterbatches, the BYK-P
and BYK-MAX P additives provide excellent wetting ofpigments and fillers, and less compacting plus low melt
viscosity. This leads to improved particle dispersion andlower filter pressure value (FPV). As a result, the throughput
increases. Contrary to expectations, the finished part’s
mechanical qualities benefit, too.

UV stabilization

Nucleation

To prevent plastic film based on PE turning brittle quickly,
film producers employ UV stabilizers. However, theirhandling is complicated due to the dusty or sticky nature ofthese substances. Our BYK-MAX LS concentrates provide
a highly effective alternative to improve the life cycle ofplastic film, fibers, and other extruded items. Thanks to their
excellent feeding characteristics, the granules or pellets canbe dosed accurately and reliably. More importantly, they
support a uniform and reproducible manufacturing process.
We also offer grades, such as the BYK-MAX LS 4125, thatare suited for food applications.

To produce transparent materials, our BYK-MAX NU products
provide perfect nucleating and/or clarifying properties for
PE and PP. Some additives, such as BYK-MAX NU 4230,
comply with EU, U.S., and Japanese food regulations andare therefore suited for food contact applications. The pellets
can be applied in film extrusion, thermoforming, andinjection and blow molding processes. They increase boththe crystallization rate and the number of spherulites.
As a result, they step up molding and extrusion productivity
and improve both stiffness and heat deflection temperature.
With more controlled shrinkage and less warpage, the overall
product quality benefits.

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Thermoplastics Transportation:
adding value to automotive applications
Our global Thermoplastic Transportation end use team is a reliable partner for automotiveapplications. Our additives are employed in thermoformed and molded interior,exterior and under-the-hood applications, in insulations for electrical parts, as well
as for underbody and control consoles. The broad and multifarious range ofsolutions includes coupling agents, process additives, thermal and UV stabilizers,plus high-performance mineral fillers and emulsions for fiber sizings.

Coupling agents

High-performance mineral fillers

Fiber-reinforced thermoplastic compounds are in increasingly
high demand as lightweight materials. They are used as
structural components for internal and external applicationsin the automotive industry. Our innovative high-performance
SCONA coupling agents enhance mechanical properties of
PP compounds reinforced with carbon, glass, or naturalfibers. In particular, they improve elastic modulus, tensile
strength, and heat deflection. With their high proportion ofbound maleic acid anhydrides, our SCONA products achieve
efficient bonding of fibers and permit low additive dosages.
Ultimately, this leads to extremely economic formulations.

Fillers are needed to improve the stiffness of low density
PP compounds. Based on our innovative clay-based
technology, our unique functional filler provides a premiumalternative to standard talc products. Its lower dosing level
reduces the weight, and the mixed minerals improve thematerial’s surface properties. As a result, scratches are lessvisible and not as deep.

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Thermal stabilizers

One-pack solutions

Almost every car brand in the world relies on our thermalstabilizers. Since our additives help to minimize oxidation
processes, they also help to meet the industry’s strict
requirements regarding thermal aging. Using our products,
PA6 remains stable for up to 2,000 hours at 150 °C andGF-PPA compounds remain stable up to 5,000 hours
at 180 °C.

In combination with our thermal stabilizers, our coupling
agents also improve the mechanical properties ofthermoplastic components. To comply with the extremely
strict regulations for the automotive industry worldwide,
we recommend our BYK-MAX HS one-pack concentrates.
They slow down thermal aging while increasing impact
strength as well as thermal and UV stability.

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Innovation,
expertise,and service –on your doorstep

At BYK, being close to our customers is key to our success.
With 17 p­ roduction sites plus 35 laboratories over five continents,
BYK is unrivalled in the industry. Our technical service, which weoffer to customers around the world, is unique. Our global
presence allows us to deliver our expertise directly to customers.

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Hands-on support

Solutions for tomorrow

We provide hands-on support in our application labs. Usingstate-of-the-art equipment, including film extrusion, single
and twin extrusion, and injection molding, we replicate
our customers‘ production conditions to run tests of ouradditives in their applications. The results help identify theformulation best suited to the application, and to define
the optimum dosage. This service often saves R&D efforts
on our customers‘ part.

Assisted by our thermoplastics labs in the Netherlands
and Germany, our innovation centers in Wesel (Germany),
St. Louis (USA) and in Shanghai (China) focus on solutions,which help our customers address new market trends.
Often these trends are related to sustainability issues,energy efficiency, and climate change, as well as changing
demographics and digitization.

We also collaborate with direct and indirect customers on
projects related to specific issues. Through this exchangeof know-how and application expertise, we enhance ourunderstanding of markets and industries and prepare
ourselves to create solutions for future challenges. We
continue to advance our expertise regarding national andinternational regulatory requirements within different
industries, including those related to food contact aswell as health and safety.

Innovation plays a major role at BYK.
A fifth of our employees work in jobs
related to R&D. We invest eight percent
of our annual sales into R&D, newproducts, and applications, which ismore than the average in our industry.

Currently, we are working on solutions to enable thedevelopment of lightweight materials. Plastics used inmedicine and healthcare are a further field of research.
We are also exploring 3D printing technologies andmaterials used in autonomous cars. As part of ourenvironmental protection efforts, we are leveraging ourrecycling expertise and are working on new halogen-freeflame retardancy solutions.
Innovation means growth. And in saying so, we put ourcustomers first. Each of our forward-thinking solutions
is designed to help them grow in their markets.

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