High-Performance Additives for Engineering Plastics at K 2025

October 24, 2025

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High-Performance Additives for Engineering Plastics at K 2025

For the first time, Brüggemann and its fully integrated Italian subsidiary Auserpolimeri will showcase a wider variety of performance-enhancing additives for polyamides and polyolefins at K 2025. The emphasis will be on innovative advancements that allow for lighter and more intricate designs, satisfy particular needs in the e-mobility and E&E industries, or enable recycling to be used in difficult applications even at high temperatures. These include impact modifiers, thermal stabilizers, and highly effective flow improvers. Additionally, there is a novel additive that produces thermoset-like qualities, particularly at high temperatures, without sacrificing thermoplastic processing for uses like cable, polyolefin foams, and HFFR compounds.
Innovative Solutions for E-Mobility
Electric drives in motor vehicles are increasing the demand for connectors, battery systems, and charging infrastructure, with specific challenges regarding the heat resistance, flame retardancy, and electrical properties of the thermoplastics used. Brüggemann’s additive portfolio offers tailored solutions that OEMs and suppliers are seeking.
BRÜGGOLEN TP-H2217 belongs to a new class of electrically neutral heat stabilizers specifically developed for the requirements of E&E and e-mobility. It increases the continuous service temperature of reinforced polyamides to up to 8,000 h at 170 °C, setting a new industry standard without compromising tracking index (CTI) and flame retardancy.
Highly efficient flow improvers tailored to the requirements of various polyamides complement the broad portfolio. These include BRÜGGOLEN P1507 for aliphatic grades, BRÜGGOLEN P1810 for semi-aromatic grades, and BRÜGGOLEN P2201 for flame-retardant grades. Their addition enables lightweight, thin-walled, and complex component geometries without compromising mechanical properties. The resulting excellent flowability also supports high glass fiber content of up to 60%. Further advantages include shorter cycle times and the associated lower energy consumption.
In addition to additives for polyamides, Brüggemann is expanding its portfolio to include stabilizers for cross-linked PE compounds. BRÜGGOLEN TP-H2431 is a long-term heat stabilizer for applications in T3 and T4 cables. Supplied in pellet form, it is designed for exceptional thermal stability in continuous operation and is suitable for e-beam and Sioplas applications.
BRÜGGOLEN R8897, a new thermal stabilizer for PP-based PCR recyclates, is a new thermal stabilizer developed by Brüggemann specifically to improve the properties of PP-EPDM recyclates used in front-end applications. A benchmark in its class, it is based on an innovative chemical concept that enables particularly good retention of mechanical properties during long-term heat aging. Laboratory tests demonstrate a significantly improved level of retention of Charpy impact strength after heat aging.
Thermoreversibly crosslinked,
Compoback is an innovative additive for polyolefin foams, HFFR compounds, cable applications, and TPEs. Its addition results in high-temperature properties that largely correspond to those of crosslinked plastics (thermosets), while retaining thermoplastic processability for reuse and recycling. Safe and easy to use, Compoback enables a significant increase in processing efficiency without the additional crosslinking step. Its outstanding effect is demonstrated by the example of extruded, physically foamed PE profiles with a square cross-section. In laboratory tests, their surface area shrank by around 75% after 24 hours of storage at 100°C without stabilization. Compounded with Compoback and stored accordingly, the reduction was negligible – similar to conventional permanent crosslinking.
Broad portfolio
In addition to the innovations mentioned above, Brüggemann will be providing information at K 2025 about its extensive portfolio of property-enhancing additives for polyamides, which includes heat stabilizers, impact modifiers, process aids, flow improvers, nucleating agents and additives for polymer chain modification, as well as additives that improve the quality and processability of recycled plastics.
L. Brüggemann GmbH & Co. KG, an independent family-owned company headquartered in Heilbronn (Germany), offers customized solutions in the areas of plastic additives, industrial chemicals, and alcohol. Brüggemann develops and produces, in particular, high-performance additives for polyamides and polyesters, reactive modifiers (primarily MAH-grafted polymers), AP-NYLON , sulfur-based reducing agents, and zinc derivatives. Founded in Heilbronn in 1868, Brüggemann today supplies customers in more than 70 countries and has international subsidiaries in Italy, the USA, and Hong Kong. The company currently employs approximately 300 people worldwide and generates annual sales of over €200 million.