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Technical Data Sheet
Eastman Cristal™ Renew Copolyester 400-50


Applications
  • Bottles-color cosmetics pkg
  • Color cosmetics packaging
  • Jars-skin care pkg
  • Personal care & cosmetics packaging
  • Skin care packaging
Key Attributes
  • Ability to mold thick parts
  • Ease of processing
  • Easy to extrude, cut, decorate, and seal
  • Excellent chemical resistance
  • Excellent clarity and color
  • Excellent colorability
  • Good impact strength
  • Good stiffness
  • High gloss appearance
  • Improved gate aesthetics
  • Readily fill intricate molds
  • Toughness

Product Description

Eastman Cristal™ Renew copolyester 400-50 is a high flow product. It is designed and engineered specifically for cosmetics packaging applications. With its unsurpassed color and clarity and an unmatched ability to mold thick parts with improved gate aesthetics, Cristal Renew 400-50 is clearly a well suited copolyester for premium cosmetics packaging. Other outstanding features are excellent chemical resistance, high gloss, and improvements in processing such as faster cycle times, and lower scrap rates. Cristal Renew 400-50 is also ideally suited for two-shot molding techniques due to its lower processing temperatures, very slow crystallization rate, and flow characteristics.

Eastman Renew polymers have been certified by International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC), a global, independent agency for tracking sustainable content in a variety of industries. Renew polymers are produced with ISCC certified circular content by mass balance allocation.

Renew polymers enable a brand to reduce consumption of fossil feedstock-based plastics, achieve sustainability targets without compromise, and be a fast mover in a growing market for sustainable consumer products.



Typical Properties

PropertyaTest MethodbTypical Value, Unitsc
General Properties
Specific GravityD 7921.28
Mold Shrinkage 
     Parallel to Flow, 3.2-mm (0.125-in.) thicknessD 9550.002-0.005 mm/mm (0.002-0.005 in./in.)
Mechanical Properties (ISO Method)
Tensile Strength @ YieldISO 52749 MPa
Tensile Strength @ BreakISO 52721 MPa
Elongation @ YieldISO 5274.2 %
Elongation @ BreakISO 52736 %
Tensile ModulusISO 5272005 MPa
Mechanical Properties
Tensile Stress @ BreakD 63825 MPa (3625 psi)
Tensile Stress @ YieldD 63850 MPa (7200 psi)
Elongation @ BreakD 63838 %
Elongation @ YieldD 6384.4 %
Tensile ModulusD 6382030 MPa (2.9 x 105 psi)
Flexural StrengthD 79066 MPa (9570 psi)
Flexural ModulusD 7901810 MPa (2.6 x 105 psi)
Rockwell Hardness, R ScaleD 785102
Izod Impact Strength, Notched 
     @ 23°C (73°F)D 256104 J/m (1.9 ft·lbf/in.)
     @ -40°C (-40°F)D 25638 J/m (0.7 ft·lbf/in.)
Impact Strength, Unnotched 
     @ 23°C (73°F)D 4812-NB
     @ -40°C (-40°F)D 4812-NB
Optical Properties
TransmittanceD 100391.8 %
HazeD 10030.24 %
Thermal Properties
Deflection Temperature 
     @ 0.455 MPa (66 psi)D 64868 °C (155 °F)
     @ 1.82 MPa (264 psi)D 64861 °C (142 °F)
Typical Processing Conditions
Drying Temperature 65 °C (150 °F)
Drying Time 8 hrs
Processing Melt Temperature 205-240 °C (400-465 °F)
Mold Temperature 16-38 °C (60-100 °F)

aUnless noted otherwise, all tests are run at 23°C (73°F) and 50% relative humidity.
bUnless noted otherwise, the test method is ASTM.
cUnits are in SI or US customary units.


Comments
Properties reported here are based on limited testing. Eastman makes no representation that the material in any particular shipment will conform exactly to the values given.


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