LANXESS, a leading specialty chemicals company, has developed a new polyester material based on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Pocan TP 555-001, which is perfectly suitable for manufacturing housings, sockets and other components for light-emitting diodes (LED). What makes the product unique is its excellent light reflection, which hardly declines at all over time, and its high heat stability. Dr. Matthias Bienmüller, head of Pocan Product Development at LANXESS, explains that this high-tech material represents a new, growing material family that is the ...