Toys

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Applications include:

Grips, handles, wheels, dolls, baby bottles, cups, tyres for toy vehicles, squeezy toys, full figures, children's furniture, cutlery handles, balls.

PVC & latex free
Excellent tear resistance
Soft to touch feel
Range of hardnesses from ultra-soft Zero ShA to 62 ShD
Easy to colour
Conform to EN71/3, 1988/378/EC, 1993/68/CE, 1999/815/CE EU regulations for toys*
Special effects such as pearlescent, metallic and thermochromic
Opaque to translucent
Low extractables
Range of surface textures; high-grip tacky, smooth to leather-effect.
Overmoulding to engineering thermoplastics
100% recyclable
Long service life
Resistance to hot water and detergents
Excellent scratch, abraison and flex fatigue resistance

*For uncoloured products, for coloured products specific migration tests are required to verify the compliance of the pigments used to colour the product.

Toys must fulfil many requirements; mechanical, dimensional and chemical. A key requirement for plastics is the maximum migration limit for some soluble heavy metals. Referring to the EN71/3 norm, if we put a toy in a 0.07 N solution of hydrochloric acid the maximum quantity of extractable heavy metals must not exceed the following quantities (expressed in ppm=mg/kg). These limits are intended for the complete toy.

Antimony (Sb)
60

Arsenic (As) 25

Barium (Ba) 1000

Cadmium (Cd) 75

Chromium (Cr) 60

Mercury (Hg) 60

Lead (Pb) 90

Selenium (Se) 500

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