Ultrason^® household and catering

Ultrason^® (PSU, PESU, PPSU) for household and catering: stylish, durable and safe

The demands on household appliances and catering articles are manifold and uncompromising at the same time: They have to be stylish as well as durable, they should be easy as well as safe in usage and they have to comply to legal regulations.

With its Ultrason^® portfolio, BASF offers the ideal material for stylish, durable and safe applications in the food packaging and household sectors. The Ultrason^® product range comprises polyethersulfone (Ultrason^® E), polysulfone (Ultrason^® S), and polyphenylsulfone (Ultrason^® P) - transparent, high-temperature resistant thermoplastics which keep their excellent mechanical properties and dimensional stability over a wide temperature range.

Because of their unique property profile all Ultrason^® grades offer great design freedom, can easily be colored and substitute glass, metal, ceramic and porcelain. What is more: They also contribute to a sustainable lifestyle and circular economy by being reusable many times without loss in mechanical properties and design – ideal for many to-go applications and multi-cycle food packaging systems!

Watch the video and learn more on the benefits of Ultrason^® for your household and catering applications!

Everyone deserves their perfect bottle – made of Ultrason^® P (PPSU)

The BASF polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) can be manufactured in all state-of-the-art production methods. It can be used to produce bottles for adults but also for babies as it contains no harmful substances, is approved for food contact and has outstanding strength, chemical resistance and long-term high-temperature stability. 

Bottles made from the transparent, slightly honey-colored polyphenylsulfone can easily withstand hot steam sterilization. These properties ensure that especially baby bottles made of Ultrason^® P are safe to use, while being lightweight and shatter-proof.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF ULTRASON^®?

Materials for household and catering applications have to fulfill several requirements at once: high mechanical stability, excellent long-term service temperature resistance in hot or cold environments, sustained resistance to foods and chemicals as well as approval for food contact. The amorphous thermoplastic Ultrason^® offers all this – and more:

Ultrason^® is colorful - tailored to your design ideas!

You want to develop colorful household appliances or catering articles with PAES - please contact us at BASF or Avient now to discuss your color requirements!

Decorative, reproducible marbling patterns for unique serial production

It is now possible to produce marbled serial components made of Ultrason^®. The coloring technique opens up virtually unlimited possibilities for designers to use BASF's polyarylethersulfones (PAES) to color household appliances, catering bowls and containers. For the first time, surface effects such as color shades, color streaks and patterns can be reproduced: Injection-molded parts of one series look alike but are not completely identical - for the production of one-of-a-kind parts, which at the same time benefit from the outstanding properties of Ultrason^® in terms of mechanical, thermal and chemical resistance as well as approval for food contact.

GO REUSABLE – This is how you can support a circular economy!

With Ultrason^®, reusable, high-quality and stylish household and catering articles with exceptional use properties over a long life-time can be developed. These products can be reused by consumers and recirculated by caterers many times while maintaining performance and design. By this, they support a circular economy for food packaging, avoiding single-use plastics and reducing packaging waste caused by conventional catering, take-away and to-go articles. Thus, reusable catering and to-go articles made of Ultrason^® can be part of a multi-cycle system that saves valuable resources and avoids packaging waste as targeted in the Single-Use Plastics EU Directive 2019/904.

Go reusable and change to a sustainable lifestyle

• Improve resource efficiency by using durable catering articles.
  
• Extend use time of tableware by longer life cycle.
• Reduce packaging waste by changing from single-use to multiple-use to-go articles.
• Improve resource efficiency by saving weight and therefore fuel and transportation energy.

Ultrason^® for your sustainable application

• Reusable to-go mugs for tea, coffee, juice
• Durable tea/hot water bottles
• Lightweight catering dishes in airplanes and trains for recirculation
• Microwavable tableware for catering in schools and hospitals
• Long-lasting tableware for fast food restaurants
• High-heat and sterilizable pans/lids for canteens to cook, chill and reheat

Best in contact: Excellent chemical resistance of Ultrason^® against foods, cleaning agents and care products

BASF tested the stress cracking resistance of Ultrason^® to different foods, cleaning agents and care products to make sure that household and catering articles keep their quality and high performance during their entire lifetime and in different stages of usage: when in contact with food, when being cleaned and when touched in handling.

The result: Different Ultrason^® grades showed no stress cracks or discoloration, thus proving that they are resistant to all tested media.

Now it is your turn to choose the ideal Ultrason^® grade for your needs!

ULTRASON^® MAKES IT EASY!

The right material for your transparent application – comparison with other materials:

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Some things are made for the extreme: Ultrason^® P (PPSU) proves its impact strength at low temperatures: