Plastics Materials Database

The Plastics material database is updated according to the latest data from the material manufacturers.

New Materials Modified Materials Removed Materials
Added 112 new material grades from these material manufacturers:
  • SABIC Specialties: 49
  • Polyplastics: 40
  • Solvay Specialty Polymers: 16
  • RadiciGroup: 6
  • LANXESS: 1
  • Renamed 441 grades according to the latest data from the SABIC website
  • Consolidated seven different SABIC manufacturer categories under the single category SABIC Specialties
  • Updated 1167 grades from constant density to generic Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) data to improve the accuracy of Fill, Pack, and Warp simulations
Removed 76 materials from the database because they were duplicates or obsolete per manufacturer:
  • SABIC Specialties: 29
  • LANXESS GmbH: 17
  • Polyplastics: 4
  • BASF: 4
  • ICI: 4
  • ARKEMA: 3
  • DuPont Engineering Plastics: 2
  • DuPont Engineering Polymers: 2
  • Rhodia Engineering Plastics: 2
  • Rhone-Poulenc: 2
  • KUO FU: 2
  • CWH, Chemwerk Huls: 2
  • DSM Engineering Plastics: 2
  • UBE: 1
Material grade with constant Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) data (2021)
Same material grade updated with generic PVT data (2022)