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Thermoplastic Elastomers Designed for Grip, Strength, and Soft-Touch Performance

Custom-Engineered Materials Built for Elastomeric Performance

From soft-touch handles to medical-grade seals, Americhem’s TPEs combine rubber-like elasticity with thermoplastic processability—engineered for your performance, processing, and compliance requirements, with full color integration and in-house validation.

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Solve Tactile, Processing, and Compliance Challenges with Custom TPE Compounds

Americhem’s thermoplastic elastomers blend softness, strength, and clean processing. Each compound is tuned to your specific tooling, compliance, and material needs.

Americhem custom formulates thermoplastic elastomers across a range of SBC, TPV, and TPO chemistries. We fine-tune each compound to your required hardness while dialing in flow, color compatibility, and regulatory readiness.

Applications include:

  • Soft-touch grips and wearable parts
  • Flexible seals, tubing, closures, and hygiene-contact components
  • Overmolded housings and dual-durometer designs

Built for injection and extrusion, and compatible with blow molding, compression, and overmolding. Offered in recyclable and bio-based formats to meet material circularity or regulatory demands. Validated in our in-house labs. Proven across industries.

Where Softness Meets Strength and Processing Control

Whether your spec calls for ergonomic comfort, compliance, or high-output processing, Americhem’s TPEs are custom-compounded and lab-validated for real-world use.

Americhem’s thermoplastic elastomers deliver comfort, sealing integrity, and consistent performance. Each TPE is tailored to your part design, equipment, and end-use requirements—then verified in our in-house labs.

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Soft-Touch Performance

Ideal for grips, handles, tubing, and wearable parts thanks to rubber-like feel and stretchability.

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Processing Flexibility

Designed for injection molding and extrusion, also compatible with blow and compression molding. Validated across production scenarios for consistent output.

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Sealing and Elasticity

Consistent sealing for closures and tubing, with reliable recovery and performance.

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Compliance and Safety

Formulated to meet medical, food contact, and global regulatory standards.

“Americhem’s TPE hit every spec:

UV, chemical, and softness for our automotive interior part. The precoloring matched our OEM target and helped us skip a secondary process.”

John JacobsSr. Materials EngineerTier 1 Automotive Supplier

Get Answers About TPE Materials, Properties, and Processing

From compliance questions to processing fit, here are the most common questions teams ask when specifying Americhem’s thermoplastic elastomers.

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TPEs are thermoplastic elastomers that combine rubber-like softness with melt-processability. Unlike thermoset rubber, TPEs aren’t cross-linked, so they can be reprocessed, recycled, and remolded.

Yes. We formulate TPEs across the full Shore A to Shore D range, with dialed-in color dispersion, tactile feel, and additive effects like antimicrobial or lubrication.

Our TPEs are designed for injection molding and extrusion, and are compatible with blow molding, compression, and overmolding—including co-extrusion and insert molding.

Absolutely. Americhem offers TPEs that meet FDA, REACH, RoHS, NSF/ANSI 51, and toy safety standards—with documentation to streamline your compliance process.

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Have a Question About Thermoplastic Elastomers?

Whether you’re navigating regulatory hurdles, tuning softness, or validating material performance, our team can help you spec the right TPE fast.

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