ExxonMobil Signature Polymers and plasticizers for resilient flooring and carpet backing applications
The flooring industry continuously needs to balance product innovation with meeting stringent performance requirements. Current market demands include improved durability, cost competitiveness, and protection of indoor air quality. Flooring brand-owners are looking for innovative ways to enable end-of-product-life design for recyclability and incorporation of recycled content.
Tailored to meet your needs across applications
Leveraging our product portfolio, formulation expertise and collaborative development approach, polyolefin-based solutions for Luxury Polymer Tiles (LPT) are now within reach. Compounded blends of polypropylene (PP), Vistamaxx™ performance polymers and filler, are customized to meet brand owner requirements.
Vistamaxx™ performance polymers are highly flexible elastomers that can tolerate high filler loading while upholding toughness and are compatible with other polyolefin materials.
*Designed with features intended to support recyclability. Actual recyclability depends on factors such as local collection, sortation, and recycling infrastructure, as well as the top layer technology used in the manufacturing process and the condition of the flooring after processing or use. However, access to facilities that accept and process polyolefin-based flooring is limited and not widely available.
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Exceed™ high performance PP
Our premium portfolio of polyolefin resins providing high performance for a broad range of applications and processes.
Jayflex™ plasticizers offer excellent performance and good processing characteristics in resilient flooring, vinyl-backed carpet tiles and vinyl composition tiles.
Benefits and use cases
Low specific gravity and low volatility
Good permanence and resistance to soapy water extraction
Cost competitiveness potential
Potential reduction or replacement of traditional solvents
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Jayflex™ DINP plasticizers
Jayflex DINP is the plasticizer of choice for substitution of DEHP (DOP) in most flexible PVC applications due to its safety profile, properties balance, cost efficiency and reliability.
As a monoester of benzoic acid and isodecyl alcohol, Jayflex™ MB10 acts as a secondary plasticizer to reduce the plastisol viscosity without the need for more-volatile hydrocarbon viscosity depressants.
Builder ambitions to obtain green building certifications have contributed to the success of polyolefin-based carpet tile backings, which can offer design for recyclability* and help to protect indoor air quality through low VOCs.
Vistamaxx™ performance polymers come in a wide range of viscosities that can help brand owners and manufacturers optimize formulations based on processing and performance needs. Proven solutions exist for both extrusion coating equipment and low shear (bitumen) systems.
*Designed with features intended to support recyclability. Actual recyclability depends on factors such as local collection, sortation, and recycling infrastructure, as well as the top layer technology used in the manufacturing process and the condition of the flooring after processing or use. However, access to facilities that accept and process polyolefin-based flooring is limited and not widely available.
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Vistamaxx™ performance polymers
A versatile polymer modifier that can be used in practically all conversion processes.
In response to market demands for design for recyclability and durable alternatives to latex, ExxonMobil has developed polyolefin-based options for carpet precoat systems in carpet tiles, doormats, artificial grass, broadloom or automotive carpets.
Low viscosity Vistamaxx™ performance polymers enable development of polyolefin-based alternatives to latex pre-coat systems. Processing polyolefins may require adjustments to your existing process.
Benefits and use cases
No curing oven or post-drying required in hot molten state
High flow enabling good tuft and fiber binding
Potential to develop low VOC pre-coat systems
No addition of biocides required
Featured products & solutions
Vistamaxx™ performance polymers
A versatile polymer modifier that can be used in practically all conversion processes.
