Smart living with TPEs in wireless earbuds, AED and baby walkers

Kraiburg TPE, a global manufacturer of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) and customised material solutions for a wide range of industries, provides ideal TPE compounds that meet the material requirements of modern consumer products such as wireless earbuds, automated external defibrillators (AEDs), and baby walkers.

Light Effect TPE for integrated LED designs in wireless earbuds

Kraiburg TPE's Light Effect TPE series offers excellent light transmission while maintaining a clean, understated appearance, and can be used for LED status indicators, touch-control areas, and illuminated branding elements, enhancing both product identity and user interaction.

Soft-touch comfort for long-term wear - Kraiburg TPE's Light Effect TPE series features a soft, comfortable surface and excellent elasticity, enabling designers to create ergonomic earbud structures that improve long-term wearing comfort. The material also offers low odour and low VOC characteristics, making it suitable for consumer electronic devices that come into direct contact with the skin, providing a more comfortable and natural user experience. The material delivers excellent mechanical performance, maintaining its durability even after repeated use. It also provides outstanding UV resistance and weatherability, helping ensure long-term reliability for wireless earbuds and wearable devices.

Excellent PP overmoulding performance for greater manufacturing efficiency - Kraiburg TPE's Light Effect TPE series provides excellent adhesion to polypropylene (PP), enabling reliable overmoulding between soft and rigid components. This allows manufacturers to achieve integrated part designs while improving product reliability and production efficiency.Its excellent flowability and moulding characteristics support complex part geometries, lightweight construction, refined product designs, and innovative aesthetics. The material also provides greater design freedom while meeting the consumer electronics industry's demand for rapid development and high-volume production.

Safety and sustainability requirements - Kraiburg TPE's Light Effect TPE series complies with the IEC 61249-2-21 halogen-free standard, supporting product safety, environmental responsibility, and long-term reliability. With excellent UV resistance and weatherability, the material is suitable for both indoor and outdoor consumer electronics applications. It is also ideal for smartwatches, wearable devices, smart home products, gaming controllers, household appliances, displays and LED indicator components and other consumer electronics applications.

Soft-touch TPE Material Used in Baby Walker Design

Baby walkers come in compact, foldable designs and are embellished with various elements for infant entertainment and visual and tactile learning. As trends evolve, safety remains the foremost standard in baby gear design. TPE’s soft-touch properties, impact absorption, slip resistance, and durability, helping improve safety and comfort in use. Kraiburg TPE’s specialised TPE solutions are designed to deliver the required performance, durability, and functionality.

Soft-touch advantage for comfortable use - Kraiburg TPE’s materials provide a soft-touch surface that enhances comfort and improves the look and feel of baby walker components such as grips, handles, edges, wheels, seals, and functional elements. Their strong adhesion to polar thermoplastics including PC, ABS, PC/ABS, ASA, SAN, PET, and PETG enables durable multi-component parts through overmoulding. Suitable for injection moulding and extrusion, the TPE compounds offer optimised flow properties for efficient processing and consistent product quality.

Certified baby-safe materials – Kraiburg TPE’s compounds are developed with optimal safety in mind. They are halogen-free according to IEC 61249-2-21 and sterilisable. Recyclability is an advantage – the use of these TPEs allows in-process recycling, reducing material waste during production. ISCC PLUS-ready solutions based on a mass balance approach are also available to enable more sustainable material sourcing and carbon reduction initiatives. The advanced TPEs comply with leading international standards, including Regulation (EU) No 10/2011, US FDA CFR 21 (raw material conformity), EN71-3, and UL 94 HB, ensuring that baby gear components meet strict safety requirements.

Broad application in infant care essentials – Kraiburg TPE’s materials have broad applications in baby products that cater to infant wellness and personal care needs, including toys, toothbrushes and other hygiene essentials, feeding bottles, food packaging, and care product packaging. High-performance TPEs from KRAIBURG TPE meet necessary requirements such as tight, drip-free sealing, comfortable and flexible grip, smooth touch, and food-grade suitability.

Durable and safe Thermolast H for AED applications

Automated external defibrillators (AEDs), a portable, lightweight electronic device designed to save the life of someone experiencing sudden cardiac arrest, require high standards of reliability and safety. TPEs are well suited for AED applications due to their durability, flexibility, chemical resistance, and insulating properties, making them ideal for grips, cables, seals, and protective housings. Kraiburg TPE’s medical TPE compounds as a specialised solution for healthcare and medical device applications in the Asia Pacific, meet stringent performance and safety requirements for AEDs.

Global standards approved for medical applications - Thermolast H compounds comply with ISO 10993-5 and GB/T 16886.5 cytotoxicity standards, ensuring biocompatibility for devices that may come into contact with users, and meet Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 and US FDA CFR 21 raw material requirements. The compounds are sterilisable via autoclave at 121°C and ethylene oxide (EtO) processes and are free from animal-derived ingredients, heavy metals and toxic substances.

Strong adhesion for multimaterial design - Medical TPE materials offer excellent adhesion to a wide range of polar thermoplastics, including polycarbonate (PC), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), PC/ABS blends, ASA, SAN, PET, PETG, and polystyrene (PS). This broad adhesion enables the design of integrated components such as soft-touch grips, protective housings, and functional seals with strong, reliable bonding. The result is improved durability and greater user confidence in emergency situations.

Processing efficiency and material adaptability - These materials are suitable for injection moulding and extrusion, offering optimised flow properties for efficient processing and consistent product quality. They enable the precise manufacturing of complex components such as switches, seals, membranes, and flexible connections. The materials are available in natural colours and are fully colourable for branding, differentiation, and identification.

Soft touch advantage for broader application - The compounds provide a soft-touch surface that improves grip and handling, making them excellent material for an array of medical and healthcare applications, including functional and design elements, soft-touch grips, switches, mats, seals, valves, membranes, and flexible connections. This versatility allows manufacturers to standardised materials across different medical devices while maintaining compliance and performance.

Sustainability from the get-go

At Kraiburg TPE, sustainability drives its innovation. Its portfolio includes bio-based TPEs and compounds with post-consumer (PCR) and post-industrial (PIR) recycled content. Selected TPEs are certified under GRS and ISCC PLUS. We also provide Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) data upon request to support sustainability decisions. The TPE manufacturer has proudly earned the EcoVadis Gold Medal in 2025 and are committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), aligning our goals with global climate action. From reducing emissions to increasing circularity, Kraiburg TPE’s sustainable TPEs deliver reliable performance and are available worldwide to support your applications while advancing your sustainability goals. Kraiburg TPE supports manufacturers in developing safe, durable, and high-performance products for everyday applications, including baby care, consumer goods, and packaging. (Press Release)

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