SABIC Launches MEGAMOLDING™ Platform to Enable Large Thermoplastic Components Across Multiple Industries

SABIC's MEGAMOLDING™ platform enables more efficient manufacturability of large high-performance thermoplastic components.

By overcoming traditional cost pressures and processing obstacles, MEGAMOLDING can offer manufacturers a scalable alternative to metal and thermoset materials.

By leveraging SABIC's expertise in materials, tool design, and process optimization, MEGAMOLDING can reduce costs and provide more sustainable manufacturing solutions.

Global chemical industry leader SABIC has launched the MEGAMOLDING™ innovation platform, aimed at enabling the manufacturability of large thermoplastic parts across multiple industries. By combining the company's deep material science expertise with the processing, tooling, and equipment expertise of value chain partners, MEGAMOLDING can achieve faster, more cost-effective, and more sustainable manufacturing solutions, superior to traditional metal and thermoset material methods.

Sami Al-Osaimi, Executive Vice President of SABIC's Polymers Business Unit, stated: "SABIC has accumulated decades of successful experience in material innovation, giving us a unique advantage to collaborate with industry partners along the value chain to redefine the manufacturing possibilities of large components with thermoplastics. Unlocking the full potential of manufacturers is significant, as it helps them enhance performance, efficiency, and sustainability."

Although thermoplastics have been used in manufacturing for a long time, their application in large components has been limited by cost, complexity, and processing challenges. MEGAMOLDING overcomes these obstacles by providing scalable, high-performance solutions that help various industries enhance design freedom and efficiency.

The innovative MEGAMOLDING platform leverages SABIC's unique expertise in advanced materials, as well as the mechanical, mold, and tooling design and processing technologies of value chain partners, making thermoplastic molding of large components applicable to more parts. The advantages of this platform include:

Adopted competitive tools, integrated components, and simplified manufacturing, post-processing, and assembly steps to improve cost-effectiveness and process efficiency.

Compared to metal casting or thermoset processing, the injection molding cycle is shortened.

- Increased design freedom enables the realization of more complex geometries and functional integration that are difficult to achieve with metal stamping or casting.

- Simplified the product architecture and improved the design for easier disassembly, sorting, and recycling.

▪ Reduced weight while still meeting strength and stiffness requirements.

Increased processing efficiency and reduced the weight of finished products, thereby lowering carbon emissions.

MEGAMOLDING is applicable to a wide range of industries and applications, including:

- Automotive — large battery enclosures (covers and trays), heavy-duty truck components (engine hoods, panels, roofs, body panels), large structural components, truck cargo platforms, etc.

▪ Energy and infrastructure — large energy storage system enclosures, wind turbine components, and grid structures.

▪ Industrial equipment — solutions for heavy machinery casings, chemical storage tanks, and pipelines.

- Consumer goods and electronics - appliance enclosures, furniture, and protective cases.

- Building and Construction - Structural panels, roofing components, and reinforced plastic solutions.

SABIC's MEGAMOLDING™ platform has achieved a breakthrough in manufacturing by enabling the scalable and cost-effective production of large, lightweight thermoplastic components, thereby helping multiple industries enhance their sustainability and performance.