19-10-2020 | Electrolube | Subs & Systems
Electrolube has today offers a new sustainable range of epoxy and polyurethane resins. The new ‘Bio’ range of resins was initially created to deliver customers with a cost-effective and high-performance alternative to conventional resins, employing locally sourced materials. The cost-driven incentive, led by company’s Indian and UK R&D teams, examined switching some of the content with an eco-friendly plant-based isocyanate instead. The solution lay in a plant-based local material, ideal for recycling and pressing to create a natural oil that is a perfect partner for epoxy resins and provides a good mixed ratio by weight bio content.
The new range comprises two epoxy resins, ER6006 and ER7006. Delivering good flow characteristics to enable the potting of difficult and complex geometries.
Padmanabha Shakthivelu, general manager of Electrolube India, comments: “Electrolube is leading the way in manufacturing plant-based electro-chemicals, offering customers resins with over 30% bio content up to resins with a 60% content and this illustrates excellent breadth of the range. We are collaborating R&D resources with our UK colleagues to develop specific bio-based resins with up to 90% bio content, which will be exceptional.”
Ron Jakeman, managing director of Electrolube, comments: “We are absolutely delighted with the response we have had from Indian manufacturers. It has been incredible, and we are excited to be at the forefront of plant-based electro-chemical development. We are fortunate that our international reputation has preceded us as a responsible, sustainable manufacturer, continually developing new and environmentally friendly products for customers around the world. Our commitment has also been endorsed by the ISO 14001 standard for the highly efficient Environmental Management System we have in place at Electrolube. Our R&D teams have been consistently identifying the requirements of local manufacturers, and we have developed the Bio range to meet these requirements for cost-effective, high-performance resins, using locally sourced materials. We are so confident in the performance and reliability of the new bio range that we are planning to roll out a new range of Bio conformal coatings and Bio thermal management solutions. We are now looking to expand plant-based alternatives across all of our product groups for many additional territories around the world."
