CHIMEI portfolio available through Omya Performance Polymer Distribution
The CHIMEI portfolio combines a comprehensive range of styrenics and engineering materials, supporting applications from high-volume consumer goods to complex technical components. The portfolio includes flame-retardant and medical-grade solutions, alongside bespoke colour-matched compound grades developed to meet specific customer colour requirements.
ACRYREX® polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)
ACRYREX® PMMA offers outstanding transparency, surface gloss, and weather resistance, making it ideal material for applications requiring long-term optical performance and aesthetic quality. Its excellent light transmission, UV stability, and surface hardness support use across automotive lighting, displays, signage, lighting components, and consumer products where clarity, durability, and appearance are key requirements.
ACRYSTEX® styrene methyl methacrylate (SMMA)
ACRYSTEX® SMMA combines excellent optical clarity with good flow and dimensional stability, providing a versatile transparent material for applications where appearance and processing efficiency are important. SMMA offers high light transmittance and low haze, making ACRYSTEX® well suited to lighting, optical, household, and consumer applications where a balance of visual quality, rigidity, and reliable moulding performance is required.
Ecologue® sustainable materials
Ecologue® brings together CHIMEI's sustainable material technologies, providing manufacturers with lower-carbon and circular alternatives while maintaining the quality, performance, and processing consistency required for demanding applications. The portfolio includes mechanically recycled, chemically recycled, and biomass-balanced plastics and rubber solutions.
Mechanically recycled options include rABS, rPC, and rPC/ABS, incorporating recycled feedstocks to reduce reliance on virgin materials and support more circular product strategies. For applications requiring high levels of optical and aesthetic performance, Ecologue® CR chemically recycled solutions include rSMMA and rMABS, using recycled MMA derived through depolymerization and purification technologies to provide performance comparable with conventional virgin materials while reducing the use of fossil-based raw materials.
The portfolio also includes biomass-balanced plastics and rubber, where renewable feedstocks are used as an alternative to conventional fossil resources. CHIMEI's ISCC PLUS certification supports the traceability of these renewable materials through a mass balance approach, helping customers pursue carbon reduction objectives while retaining the established performance characteristics of CHIMEI materials.
KIBILAC® acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA)
KIBILAC® ASA is engineered for outdoor durability, delivering excellent resistance to UV exposure, weathering, and colour fading. Its long-term stability makes it well suited for applications exposed to environmental conditions, including construction materials, outdoor equipment, and automotive exterior components where appearance and performance must be maintained over time.
KIBIPOL® high-cis butadiene rubber (HBR)
KIBIPOL® HBR is a high-cis butadiene rubber offering excellent resilience, abrasion resistance, low heat build-up, and dynamic performance. Its combination of durability and elastic properties makes it particularly suitable for demanding rubber applications, including tires, footwear, industrial rubber goods, and other products requiring excellent wear performance and long service life.
KIBIPOL® low-cis butadiene rubber (LBR)
KIBIPOL® LBR is a low-cis butadiene rubber designed to provide a versatile balance of flexibility, processing performance, and compatibility within rubber formulations. It can be used across applications including footwear, rubber modification, industrial products, and other compounded rubber systems where consistent processing and tailored mechanical performance are required.
KIBIPOL® solution styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR)
KIBIPOL® SSBR is a solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber developed for applications requiring an advanced balance of mechanical and dynamic performance. Particularly suited to high-performance tire compounds, SSBR can support improved traction, abrasion resistance, and rolling performance, while also offering opportunities across footwear and specialist rubber applications where durability and controlled performance characteristics are important.
KIBISAN® styrene acrylonitrile (SAN)
KIBISAN® SAN provides rigidity, clarity, and chemical resistance, offering an efficient solution for applications requiring transparency and structural performance. It is commonly used in consumer goods and household applications where optical properties, surface quality, and dimensional stability are important, while maintaining reliable processing in standard production environments.
KIBITON® thermoplastic elastomers (TPE)
KIBITON® TPE provides rubber-like flexibility with thermoplastic processing efficiency, offering an effective alternative to traditional elastomers. It supports applications requiring flexibility, soft-touch properties, and durability, including consumer goods, seals, grips, and industrial components, while enabling efficient manufacturing without vulcanization.
KIBITON® Q Resin styrene butadiene block copolymer (SBC)
KIBITON® Q Resin is a transparent styrenic material combining excellent optical clarity with toughness, flexibility, and easy processing. Its balance of transparency and impact performance makes it particularly suitable for applications where visual appearance must be combined with greater durability than conventional rigid styrenics. Typical applications include consumer goods, household products, packaging, toys, and transparent components requiring clarity, toughness, and reliable processing performance.
POLYLAC® acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)
POLYLAC® ABS delivers a well-balanced combination of impact strength, rigidity, and surface quality, making it one of the most widely used engineering thermoplastics. The portfolio includes a broad range of grades, from general-purpose to high-impact, flame-retardant, and transparent (POLYLAC® MABS) solutions, enabling flexibility across both functional and aesthetic requirements. POLYLAC® is widely used in electronics housings, appliances, and consumer products where consistent processing, dimensional stability, and high-quality finish are essential.
POLYLAC® methyl methacrylate acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (MABS)
POLYLAC® MABS combines the transparency and aesthetic qualities of a clear polymer with the toughness and processing advantages associated with ABS. Offering excellent clarity, impact resistance, surface gloss, and dimensional stability, it is well suited to applications where both appearance and mechanical performance are important. Typical uses include household appliances, consumer products, transparent housings, cosmetic and personal care components, and other applications requiring a combination of clarity, durability, and high-quality surface finish.
POLYREX® polystyrene (PS)
POLYREX® PS provides excellent processability, dimensional stability, and surface quality for a broad range of high-volume applications. Its combination of rigidity, consistent molding performance, and design flexibility makes it suitable for consumer goods, household products, electrical and electronic components, packaging, and other applications where efficient processing, reliable quality, and cost-effective production are key considerations.
WONDERLITE® polycarbonate (PC)
WONDERLITE® PC delivers high impact strength, optical clarity, and thermal resistance, enabling performance in demanding applications requiring both durability and transparency. It is used across lighting, electrical and electronics, and technical components, where mechanical strength, visual quality, and long-term reliability are critical.
WONDERLOY® polycarbonate/acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (PC/ABS)
WONDERLOY® PC/ABS combines the strength and heat resistance of polycarbonate with the processability of ABS, creating a balanced material solution for engineering applications. These materials offer excellent impact performance, good flow characteristics, and strong surface finish, making them ideal for electronics housings, mobility components, and technical enclosures.
