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♦ Tooling wear. Filled PBT chews through 10–20% 15–20% 20–25%
gates and runners. lower energy faster cycle lower compo-
♦ Cost. PC and PBT run 20–60% pricier than use times nent cost
PP, per kilo.
What It Looks Like On The Line
♦ Speed. Engineering polymers process slow-
er, capping throughput. Numbers are easy to throw around in a deck.
Here's what they look like once you run them
♦ Weight. Heavier parts, heavier freight bills. against a real production line.
♦ Moisture. Pre-drying adds time and cost no- THE MATH, FOR A 5-MILLION-UNIT-A-YEAR
body wants to pay.
LINE
♦ End of life. Regrind and recycling get compli-
cated, fast. `4.00 Cr with PC `2.30 Cr with engineered
PP
None of these break a business on its own. Add
them up across millions of parts a year, and they = `1.70 crore saved every year — before energy,
add up to one question nobody had answered tooling and throughput gains
with a real alternative — is there a better-fit ma- The Reset This Enables
terial for this job?
Every one of these gains lands somewhere an
SO WE BUILT ONE
OEM actually feels it — lighter parts mean low-
We treated that as a formulation problem, not a er freight, easier processing means fewer bot-
shopping list. What came out the other end is an tlenecks, and better chemical resistance means
engineered PP compound built specifically for the part simply lasts longer in the field. This isn't
this long-standing challenge. We built Flame Re- a tweak. It's a reset of an assumption the indus-
tardant, mineral-reinforced, fibre-reinforced and try has carried since LED manufacturing started
high-heat grades, each tuned to what a given scaling in India. We're running part-specific trials
part actually has to survive. It processes at 200– right now — pick a housing or downlight body,
240 C against PC's 280–320 C. It needs little to and we'll match a grade to the brief.
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o
no pre-drying. It comes in 15–20% lighter than
the incumbents. And it beats both on chemical Shivam Bansal | Director & CEO | JJ Plastalloy
resistance and recyclability.
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