Through our close collaboration with universities, business partners, research institutes, and other leading experts, we ensure our access to cutting edge scientific know-how, which we put into practice in cooperation with our customers. We would like to show you a few examples how ELANTAS is applying knowledge and technologies. For further information please contact us at Innovation.ELANTAS@altana.com.

In the last years, ELANTAS has extensively investigated which new or improved properties can be obtained through the use of nanomaterials. The result are new wire enamels with increased corona resistance, better heat and abrasion resistance, as well as impregnating resins and casting materials with increased heat conductivity.

As global technology leader for impregnating resins, ELANTAS supplies the producers of wind generators worldwide. A special challenge for wind generators are the strongly varying torques – depending on the wind – and the wide range of strongly varying temperatures (from – 40 °C to + 80 °C) in which the generators must work reliably for many years.

ELANTAS has developed unsaturated polyester resins which can be applied without reactive diluents such as styrene or similar monomers. These systems, in which the low viscosity can be reached simply by a smart chain length distribution, are distinguished by their excellent properties and extremely low evaporation losses.