Expancel microspheres are lightweight expandable polymer microspheres that can replace heavier fillers and resins, helping to reduce costs and plastic usage while improving insulation, flexibility, and surface finishes for applications in building materials, transportation, and packaging; Expancel offers a wide portfolio of microsphere products along with technical support and innovation to support customers' needs; Expancel aims to provide on-site expansion equipment to further reduce shipping costs for key customers.

1. Expancel Microspheres
Your engineered solution

2. Your ex factor for growth
• lighten up your designs
• replace expensive resins
• reduce your plastic footprint
• release less green house gas
Do more
waste less

3. 8,000 Employees
Operating in Over 80 Countries
400 Years of History
Top-quartile Safety Performer
4 Production Sites
48 Distributors
in numbers
in numbers
Expancel Green Bay, WI, USA
Expancel Stockvik, Sweden

4. Expancel gives you that extra edge
Cuts costs
Lightweight
Supreme
flexibility
Beautiful
surface
finishes
Thermal
and acoustic
insulation
Shorter
cycle times

5. Expancel expands
your possibilities
Blowing agent and lightweight filler in one!
Unexpanded
Expansion up to 60x original volume
Expanded
40 μm
12 μm
Heat
Shell thickness
0.1 μm
Shell thickness
2 μm
Blowing agent
Thermoplastic shell

6. Reduce costs by exchanging other fillers
EXPANCEL
CHARACTERISTICS
We typically displace 5 to
50% material by volume
in automotive applications.
7grams
Expancel
d 25 kg/m3
Expancel
d 60 kg/m3
Glass MS
d 128 kg/m3
Glass MS
d 215 kg/m3
CaCO3
d 2700 kg/m3
1 kg = 40 l / 10.5 gal 16.7 l / 4.4 gal 7.8 l / 2.1 gal 4.7 l / 1.2 gal 0.37 l / 0.09 gal

7. Our area of expertise
1. Broad portfolio of products
2. Technical service and application
development
3. Continuous innovation
4. Unique on-site handling and
expansion systems
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03 04

8. Our extensive portfolio
supports your needs
Wet, unexpanded and expanded
Dry, unexpanded and expanded
Slurry - microspheres dispersed in water
Masterbatch - microspheres mixed with a carrier
WU WE
DU DE
SL
MB
FG Food grades for packaging applications
EC

9. Positioned to win in priority markets
Building, Construction & Infrastructure
- Energy efficient and reflective cool roof coatings
- Low shrink and easy application for long lifetime and durability
- Improved insulation with moisture resistant closed cell
- Freeze thaw improvment in concreet
Protective Packaging
- Impact protection reduces need for bulky boxes
- Acceptable in existing paper waste streams
- Commonly replaces plastic packaging
Transportation
- Light weighting to exceed auto CAFÉ standards
- Lower density to replace glass bubbles
- Used in aircraft to reduce weight and improve fuel efficiency
Aligned to
Market
Competitive
Advantage

10. extreme performance
in transportation
100 w% plastic
Density = 1000 kg/m³
98 w% plastic matrix
2 w% Expancel
Density = 650 kg/m³
35%
LESS PLASTIC!
MULTIPLE BENEFITS
IN ONE SOLUTION!
Lighter weight to reduce fuel
Insulates to improve acoustics
Fills gaps to absorb energy and seal
from the elements
Improve driving range to reduce CO2

11. Weight reduction per car 70g Expancel
Under Body Coating
Body Sealer
- 4kg
(reduction per car)
70g Expancel
Weather Strips
- 2kg
(reduction per car)
35g Expancel
Dashboard
- 1kg
(reduction per car)
65g Expancel
Composite Panels
Headliners
- 0.4kg
(reduction per car)
≈50g Expancel
Sound Damping
≈ - 2kg
(reduction per car)
290g
Expancel - 9.4kg
(reduction per car)
TOTAL
These are actual
applications and reductions

13. The new Expancel HP92 expandable microsphere pioneers the use
of lightweight fillers in high pressure automation lines by combining
high volume recovery with low material density, bringing together
the best of two worlds.
• High volume recovery after pressurization
• Exceptionally low material density (approx 90 % lower than glass microspheres)
• Minimized equipment wear associated with the use of glass spheres
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Introducing Expancel® HP92
Our Value Proposition for Auto

14. 031-40
043-80
909-80
093-120
930-120
951-120
053-40
007-40
920-80
950-80
HP92-80
051-40
920-40
920-20
920-120
980-100
Low
Low
Medium High
Medium
High
Temperature
Expansion
80 °C 150°C 180°C 235°C
Injection: Elastomers, Shoe sole,
plastic wine stoppers
Extrusion: Cable, Foam Sheet
3D Printing: PLA
Casting: PU
Compression Molding: NR,
silicone rubber
Coating: Artificial leather, Under
Body Coating
Printing: Wallpaper
Printing: Textile inks, Wallpaper
Casting: PU, Silicone
Coating: Adhesives, Sound
Damping Coating
Impregnation: Non-woven
Nouryon Expancel HP92
Product Portfolio Map
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Tmax
180–200C
Tstart
116–126C

15. Nouryon Expancel HP92
Expansion curves – comparison to existing products
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16. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
% Remaining volume after 1 hour @ 240 bar
920 DET 80 d45 in DINP HP92 DET 80 d45 in DINP
Nouryon Expancel HP92

17. Sample Sizes
• DU: 0.5 L
• DET: 2.5 L
Samples shipped from:
• Stockvik, Sweden
• Ningbo, China
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Jundiai, Brazil
Nouryon Expancel HP92
Samples & Active SKUs

18. Reduce shipping with
optimized packaging
DRUMS
22 pallets x 300 kg
1 x Truck holds: 8,640 kg
31% Savings per vehicle
1 x Truck holds: 6,600 kg
Standard shipping
1 x Truck holds: 10,000 kg
52% savings per vehicle
18kg BAGS
20 pallets x 432 kg
(8640kg-6600kg)/6600kg
FIBC (DU)
20 pallets x 500 kg
(10000kg-6600kg)/6600kg

19. Onsite equipment -
Aligned to your point
of use
1 x HEA + 1 x truck unexpanded Expancel
=30-40 trucks expanded Expancel
On-site expansion for key customers
-Globally deployed units aligned to
customer needs to reduce shipping cost

20. Jeffrey Lonergan
jeffrey.lonergan@nouryon.com
phone +1-612-200-4050
Global Marketing Director
info.expancel@nouryon.com