Polypropylene is the dominant material for engineered plastics and advanced compounds that are increasingly replacing not only conventional materials such as metals but also other plastics including ABS, PA or PVC in an increasing number of applications in the automotives industry.

Polypropylene materials enjoy a range of favourable properties, cost effectiveness and inherent superior environmental performance. At the same time the property window of engineering polypropylene including impact strength and surface properties has been significantly enhanced due to new catalyst technologies such as Borealis’ proprietary Borstar® technology and also improved compounding techniques.