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Toys

Child-safe materials that deliver design flexibility
 
Our TPEs are PVC and latex free and conform to the requirements of EN71/3*. What’s more, the look and feel of our materials can be formulated to offer a multitude of possibilities; colour, surface finish and hardness can all help bring designs to life.
 
And it isn’t just product we deliver, we have earned the loyalty and trust of major toy manufacturers around the world through our commitment to provide superior technical and development support.

Applications include:

Grips, handles, wheels, dolls, baby bottles, cups, tyres for toy vehicles, squeezy toys, full figures, children's furniture, cutlery handles, balls.

PVC & latex free
Excellent tear resistance
Soft to touch feel 
Range of hardnesses from ultra-soft Zero ShA to 62 ShD 
Easy to colour
Conform to EN71/3, 1988/378/EC, 1993/68/CE, 1999/815/CE EU regulations for toys* 
Special effects such as pearlescent, metallic and thermochromic
Opaque to translucent
Low extractables 
Range of surface textures; high-grip tacky, smooth to leather-effect.
Overmoulding to engineering thermoplastics
100% recyclable
Long service life 
Resistance to hot water and detergents 
Excellent scratch, abraison and flex fatigue resistance

*For uncoloured products, for coloured products specific migration tests are required to verify the compliance of the pigments used to colour the product.

Toys must fulfil many requirements; mechanical, dimensional and chemical. A key requirement for plastics is the maximum migration limit for some soluble heavy metals. Referring to the EN71/3 norm, if we put a toy in a 0.07 N solution of hydrochloric acid the maximum quantity of extractable heavy metals must not exceed the following quantities (expressed in ppm=mg/kg). These limits are intended for the complete toy.

Antimony (Sb)

60

Arsenic (As) 25
Barium (Ba) 1000
Cadmium (Cd) 75
Chromium (Cr) 60
Mercury (Hg) 60
Lead (Pb) 90
Selenium (Se) 500

Related

Application Study - Toys

 
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