Trinseo offers new compounds for LED lighting

As a global materials company and manufacturers of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubbers, Trinseo has been banking on its R&D centers located in North America Europe and Asia Pacific to provide innovative and custom polycarbonate-based compounds. The centers are among the highlights of the company's presence at Strategies in Light, held in Santa Clara, California from March 1 to 3.  

Trinseo’s R&D centers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific have been providing innovative and custom polycarbonate-based compounds for the LED lighting industry for more than a decade. The company’s dominant markets have been in North America and Asia Pacific.

According to Bill Marshall, senior account manager of LED lighting at Trinseo, the LED marketplace is global and dynamic, and companies have been specifying material in one region and manufacturing in another. Trinseo offers companies globally with new and innovative solutions to meet their specific requirements.

Trinseo’s materials, CALIBRE polycarbonate resins and EMERGE advanced resins, are used in lenses, covers, housings, and reflectors. They are specified by a blue chip list of customers for their ability to address critical industry needs, including thinner gauge plastics, lighter weight materials, design freedom, and superior optics.

At Strategies in Light, the company highlighted its newest patent-pending technology for lighting, EMERGE 8830 LT advanced resin. This advanced resin is an innovative transparent polycarbonate that balances the properties of transparency, thickness and ignition resistance. Nearly as transparent as glass, the material is unique in that it has earned a UL 94 rating of V-0 at 1.0 mm and a 5VA rating at 2.5 mm. Trinseo also showcased its ignition resistant EMERGE 8130 advanced resin series of light diffusion and high reflectivity white materials.

In addition, Trinseo showed off its Predictive Simulation capability which offers designers a cost-effective, virtual approach to designing an application without spending time, materials or production effort on an approach that could prove to be unsuccessful. Long used for its automotive customers, Trinseo’s Predictive Simulation capability is highly effective for the consumer markets it supports, particularly those in the lighting industry that require expediency and cost effective development.