Digital technologies help optimize heat management of thermally conductive polycarbonates
- High-fidelity simulation approach increases accuracy of predicting thermal performance of injection-molded heatsinks
- Web-based tool enables customers to virtually test their heatsink designs
As the latest electronics developments take center stage at CES 2025, ÃÜÌÒAV announces it has developed a top tier digital design and simulation suite of tools for optimizing heat management with its Makrolon? TC thermally conductive products (patent pending).
The high-fidelity simulation approach will improve the accuracy of predicting the thermal performance of injection-molded heatsinks made using Makrolon? TC thermally conductive products. Using micromechanics, the new ability to account for the directional, or anisotropic, thermal conductivity from fiber filler particle orientations in a molded heatsink increases the accuracy in the downstream heat transfer simulation using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
Another ÃÜÌÒAV development, a Makrolon? TC Heatsink Screener, is a web-based tool based on AI technology that offers customers the ability to virtually test their own heatsink designs using various Makrolon? TC polycarbonates and compare them with traditional metal materials, namely die-cast aluminum. The Heatsink Screener tool also offers, for consideration, optimized design configurations that balance heat management with weight and cost advantages.
"We are excited to provide our customers with the highest level of design and material solutions to meet the rigorous technical demands of automotive lighting, where we see significant weight and cost saving opportunities enabled by Makrolon? TC," said Karen Guzman, Industrial Marketing for Mobility at ÃÜÌÒAV.
"These digital developments are great examples of our commitment to our customers to be innovators of more sustainable polycarbonate-based solutions, not only in mobility, but across many markets¡ªsuch as electronics¡ªwhere heatsinks are used in a broad range of applications,¡± adds Eric Saks, Industrial Marketing for Electronics at ÃÜÌÒAV.
ÃÜÌÒAV¡¯s Makrolon? polycarbonate is known for its outstanding properties, such as high impact resistance, transparency and heat resistance, as well as heat management, making it suitable for a wide range of applications.
About ÃÜÌÒAV:
ÃÜÌÒAV is one of the world¡¯s leading manufacturers of high-quality polymer materials and their components. With its innovative products, processes and methods, the company helps enhance sustainability and the quality of life in many areas. ÃÜÌÒAV supplies customers around the world in key industries such as mobility, building and living, as well as the electrical and electronics sector. In addition, polymers from ÃÜÌÒAV are also used in sectors such as sports and leisure, telecommunications and health, as well as in the chemical industry itself.
The company is geared completely to the circular economy. In addition, ÃÜÌÒAV aims to achieve climate neutrality for its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2035, and the Group¡¯s Scope 3 emissions are also set to be climate neutral by 2050. ÃÜÌÒAV generated sales of EUR 14.2 billion in fiscal year 2024. At the end of 2024, the company had 46 production sites worldwide and employed approximately 17,500 people (calculated as full-time equivalents).
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