Lubrizol launches engineered polymers for smart wearable devices

Lubrizol Corporation’s engineered polymers business has launched a new series of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) products for smart wearable devices, Estane Smart TPU. The new product portfolio is specifically designed to address the rapidly growing wearable device market, particularly for soft-touch bands in smartwatches and fitness tracker applications.
 
The Estane Smart TPU series includes both aromatic and aliphatic TPU grades with hardness levels ranging from 70A to 88A. Depending on OEM requirements, the product portfolio offers the wearable market a solution for soft materials having robust mechanical properties and good chemical and UV resistance.
 
Junkers Wang, global market segment manager, Estane engineered polymers industrial consumer electronics, Lubrizol, said, “The new product series will further strengthen our intimacy with electronics OEMs along with other ongoing elastomer-based projects that are already in production. Estane Smart TPU is off to an amazing start as some of the products have been adopted by premium OEMs for wristband applications.”