Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- Plastics & Elastomers Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- CASE Ingredients Features
- Materials Features
- Features
- Very high solvator specifically designed for vinyl, making it particularly useful in blends of plasticizers to tailor characteristics, with an extremely low freeze point and no GHS label requirements in the U.S. or Europe
- Outstanding stain resistance, extraction resistance, and durability in PVC
- Excellent choice for vinyl application.
Applications & Uses
- Compatible Polymers & Resins
Properties
- Typical Properties
Value Units Test Method / Conditions Boiling Point (at 5 mmHg) 157 °C - Boiling Point (750 mmHg, Extrapolated) min. 300 °C - Density (at 25°C) 1.14 g/ml ASTM D1475 Freeze Point¹ -50 °C - Moisture Content 0.02 % - Viscosity (Brookfield RVT, 20 rpm) 81 mPa.s - Kinematic Viscosity (at 25°C) 71 cSt - Volatile Organic Compounds 5.8 % ASTM D2369 - Note
- Glass Point by DSC
Safety & Health
- Health and Safety Information
- Appropriate literature has been assembled which provides information concerning the health and safety precautions that must be observed when handling the LANXESS products mentioned in this publication.
- For materials mentioned which are not LANXESS products, appropriate industrial hygiene and other safety precautions recommended by their manufacturers should be followed.
- Before working with any of these products, you must read and become familiar with the available information on their hazards, proper use, and handling.
- This cannot be overemphasized.
Storage & Handling
- Storage and Handling information
- At LANXESS production facility, the K-Flex® 500 plasticizers are stored in type 304 stainless steel storage tanks.
- These storage tanks are nitrogen padded to reduce discoloration of the product.
- Type 304 stainless steel pipe and valves are also used.
- High density polyethylene has been shown to be suitable for product shipment but we have no direct experience in piping systems.
- Since K-FLEX products are excellent plasticizers for polyvinyl chloride (PVC), PVC piping systems should not be used.
- Sliding vane type positive displacement pumps have given us excellent service.
- It is recommended that storage tanks be heated and insulated and that pumps and transfer piping also be heat-treated and insulated.
- Our engineers are always ready to discuss the storage and handling of any of our products.