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Repsol, TactoTek Developing Smart Surfaces with Polyolefins

Seek to expand the use of polyolefins in high-performance parts, such as smart surfaces, which have only been made using other plastic materials.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

Polyolefins are the most widely used polymers in the automotive sector due to their exceptional versatility, superior physical and mechanical characteristics, and lightweight, which reduces fuel consumption and emissions.   At the end of 2019, Repsol made an equity investment in the Finnish startup TactoTek, through its investment fund Repsol Corporate Venturing.    The two companies are currently developing the technology to manufacture smart surfaces using polyolefins intended mainly f...

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