Consumer Durables
Plastic items are essential in our daily lives, used in various applications from household appliances to furniture, kitchenware, toys and sports & leisure.
Manufacture Products Built to Last
Consumer durables often involve frequent use and require high durability and stability, must endure different temperatures, and even more demanding conditions requiring good mechanical performance.
We offer a broad portfolio of masterbatch and compound for your durable goods, considering ever-changing trends, regulations, and consumer demands as well as various material options.
Where Our Products Make an Impact
- Household appliances
- Food services
- Furniture
- Gardening & power tools
- Toys
- Sports and leisure
Developments in the Consumer Durables Sector
As the consumer durables sector evolves, several key trends are shaping its future. Companies are increasingly focusing on sustainability, durability, and innovation to meet the changing demands of consumers and regulatory requirements. Below, we explore how these developments are influencing the industry.
Embracing Sustainability and Durability
The industry is increasingly focusing on sustainability and durability. Companies are now prioritizing EcoDesign by using materials with recycled content. The focus shifts to creating products that withstand the test of time. With the help of our masterbatches and compounds, you can incorporate more recycled content into your products and improve their durability for increased sustainability.
Closing the Loop
There is a growing desire to implement closed-loop systems in the industry. This involves the return of used appliances, which can then be refurbished, recycled, or repurposed. Such initiatives help to minimize waste and promote a circular economy. We formulate our masterbatches and compounds to ensure recycling is guaranteed and made easier.
Connectivity and Smart Appliances
The integration of connectivity in consumer durables is transforming products at their core. Smart appliances are becoming more common, offering convenience and enhanced functionality. This trend is particularly evident in smart cooking, where sensor technologies in ovens allow for features such as temperature control or automatic adjustment of cooking times. With our masterbatches, you equip your materials with the right mechanical and chemical properties to be suitable for use in connected devices.
Digital Transformation
The replacement of mechanical components with digital displays modernizes the appearance of appliances, while also enhancing user experience. Hop on the trend with style thanks to our masterbatches improving the quality and aesthetics of plastic components for digital displays.
Durability and Design Freedom for Your Consumer Durable Applications
Enhance your product's design versatility with high-quality colors that create distinctive visual appeal. Benefit from long-lasting polymer protection that ensures your products retain their visual and mechanical integrity, even under challenging conditions.
With our solutions, your applications will be able to withstand temperature changes, severe weather, and UV exposure, reducing maintenance needs and prolonging product life. With regulatory-compliant solutions, you can confidently meet industry standards while delivering innovative, sustainable products to the market.
Improving Product Carbon Footprint
Incorporating PCR Material
We have experience in reducing the carbon footprint of non-PCR ABS by incorporating PCR PET into the material. Our technology enables the combination of these incompatible materials while preserving mechanical integrity. By using rPET in your consumer durables applications, you can significantly lower the product’s environmental impact compared to using virgin engineering resins.
Explore Your Material Options
Biopolymers for Consumer Durables
Design your toys, furniture, kitchenware, household appliances and more with a positive environmental impact. Our biobased, biodegradable, and compostable colors and visual effects not only help make your durable goods stand out but also highlight your commitment to using renewable resources.
Recycled Resins for Consumer Durables
Recycled materials are used in many non-food contact consumer goods, such as housings for coffee machines, vacuum cleaners, and other household appliances. By partially replacing virgin materials, these recycled components help reduce the product's carbon footprint.
Polyolefins for Consumer Durables
Polyolefins are renowned for their exceptional electrical insulation properties, making them indispensable in a wide range of industrial and consumer applications. Our Processing Aids and functionality masterbatches enhance these materials by adding the desired properties, ensuring your applications are perfectly tailored to meet specific requirements.
Engineering Resins for Consumer Durables
Our masterbatches and compounds enhance the performance and durability of engineering resins used in applications such as household appliances, 3D printing components, power tools, and toys. By improving resistance to wear, impact, and environmental factors, they ensure longer-lasting, high-quality products while meeting functionality requirements.
Explore Our Consumer Durables Portfolio
Color and Appearance for Consumer Durables
We offer a customizable color portfolio with highly concentrated and dispersed colors for indoor and outdoor applications. Take the aesthetics of your durable goods to the next level with durable matting effects, effective light diffusion, or tint correction for neutralizing undertones in your resins or discoloring such as seen in recycled polyesters. Our portfolio also includes NIR-detectable blacks and colors for improved recyclability of your application.
Mechanical Recycling Enhancement for Consumer Durables
Enabling high performance and environmentally conscious durable goods. Lower your product’s carbon footprint by replacing part of your virgin resins with post-consumer or post-industrial recycled PET. Our Compatibilizers make polymer mixes of immiscible rPET and engineering resins possible while preserving physical properties.
Physical Property Modifiers for Consumer Durables
Make your material excel in durable goods. Foaming Agents reduce material density, leading to lower weight and material usage. Additionally, they can help reduce sink marks during injection molding of the final article. To make your material suitable for applications such as credit cards, Impact Modifiers enhance durability, crack resistance, and flexibility – all while maintaining recyclability of the end application.
End Application Modifiers for Consumer Durables
Unlock unique properties in your resins that make your consumer durables stand out. Our Laser Engravings provide permanent, high-contrast markings suitable for black images, text, and numbers on white or transparent plastics.
Slip, Antiblock & Release Modification for Consumer Durables
Streamline manufacturing processes and enhance the performance of your durable goods. Our Mold Release masterbatches reduce demolding force and improve filling of cavities in injection molded applications. It improves both productivity and the surface finish of the final product.
Adding Value Through Expertise and Testing
Regulatory Expertise
The landscape of industrial regulations is complex and varies internationally. With Sukano, you gain access to a team specializing in regulatory affairs and trained to navigate through global regulations. We meticulously assess our formulations against declarable or restricted substances lists, safeguarding your business from potential industrial regulatory pitfalls.
In-House Labs
In our technical center, we produce tailor-made product samples for initial tests. Our equipment allows scale-up sample production and is further enhanced by the analytical center. There, we assess the functional and mechanical properties of the samples and conduct material analysis. Our labs are equipped with high-quality machinery, such as dedicated compounding and injection molding equipment for high-temperature polymers.
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