Recent News Stories About Insight Polymers

New Insight Compunds For Conveyor Parts

Compounding World - July 2026

US compounder Insight Polymers offers two ne PFAS-free wear and friction products described as "excellent" for materials handling applications.

Materials Meet The Needs of Electrical Safety

Compounding World - January/February 2026

New Additives and compounds are benefiting products in cables, packaging, films and applications in rotational and injection moulding. Additives that make thermoplastics electrically conductive are used in a wide range of applications with varying levels of conductivity.

Insight Polymers to introduce new PFAS-free polymer materials for medical wear and friction applications

Medical Design & Outsourcing - January 2026

Insight Polymers & Compounding (Find us at MD&M West 2026 - Booth 4614), a leading innovator of advanced polymer compounds, will launch a new line of polymer materials for medical applications. The new materials eliminate PFAS and other forever chemicals while maintaining wear and friction performance. The company’s first PFAS-free product will be Insight PFAS Free Nylon 66 Wear Resistant grade.

Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Hit the Market

Compounding World - October 2025

US-based custom compounder Insight Polymers & Compounding has launched a line of CNT concentrates that improve tensile strength and stiffness by 20% to 100% while maintaining impact strength, the company announced. They offer excellent conductivity at low loadings with consistent electrical properties and high cleanliness. The masterbatches contain 15% CNTs by weight and can be let down in the associated carrier materials with loadings of 2% to 7% by weight in the final compound. The first concentrates are available in PP, PETG, PA 6, PA 66, PA 12 and PPS, with more to be added to the portfolio. Custom compounds are also possible.

Insight Polymers introduces CNT masterbatches for improved 3D printing materials

Lucia Gartner - Apr 17, 2025

Insight Polymers & Compounding has developed a range of carbon nanotube (CNT) masterbatches that enable significant mechanical improvements for thermoplastic materials. The concentrates, which were first unveiled at Compounding World Expo 2024 in North America, are said to increase tensile strength and stiffness by 20 to 100 percent, depending on the matrix polymer and CNT content, without compromising impact strength.

Press Release

Apr 16, 2025

New Carbon Nanotube Masterbatches Improve Strength and Stiffness by 20% to 100% While Maintaining Impact Strength.

3D printing Prime Market For Insight's Conductive Compounds

Frank Esposito - Plastics News - November 25, 2024

Cleveland — Insight Polymers & Compounding has launched a new line of conductive and static dissipative compounds for the additive manufacturing market.

The new compounds can be used in additive manufacturing pellet printing, Sales Manager Matt Torosian said Nov. 13 at AMI Plastics World Expos in Cleveland. Other potential end markets for the new compounds include electronics, industrial, medical and consumer products.

Kingsport, Tenn.-based Insight makes materials with performance goals in mind, Torosian added. "Some customers want filled or reinforced materials; some want contract R&D."

The firm also is working on PFAS replacement materials and in 2025 should have compounds based on reactive polymers such as modified polypropylene available.

In other resin families, Torosian said, Insight is developing nylon 6 materials that can perform like nylon 12 and polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) materials that can perform like high-temperature nylon. Compounds based on polyetheretherketone (PEEK), polyetherimide (PEI) and other high-performance resins for oil and gas seals also "are in the early stage," Torosian said.

Insight operates four twin-screw extrusion lines at a 12,000-square-foot site. The firm was founded in 2018 by A.J. Pasquale and Jeremy Lizotte. Pasquale now is the firm's operations director, with Lizotte serving as innovation director. Both previously worked for plastics and chemicals giant Eastman Chemical Co. of Kingsport.

Insight makes materials based on many different resin types for a wide range of end markets. Its product mix includes concentrates based on glycol-modified PET and polylactic acid (PLA).

Partners in Polymer Progress

A.J. Pasquale and Jeremy Lizotte go back a ways. They finished their doctoral studies in polymer chemistry from Virginia Tech in the early 2000s and followed the path laid by many 20-something graduate students before and since: They went to work for big materials companies.

Compound Investments

US-based polymer processor and custom compounder Insight Polymers & Compounding, recently purchased a ZSE-40 Maxx twin screw compounding extruder from Leistritz that it plans to use to expand its capability in production of compounds for additive manufacturing, as well as thermoplastics, elastomers, and reactive extrusion processes such as graft polymerisation and nanoparticle dispersion and exfoliation.

Insight Polymers Expands Advanced Compounding Facilities

Insight Polymers & Compounding has expanded its advanced compounding facilities in Kingsport, Tenn., with the addition of a new twin-screw extrusion line. The addition further expands capabilities with both high temperature process capabilities and a configuration of screw elements that in addition to conventional compounding enables reactive extrusion processes such as graft polymerization and nanoparticle dispersion and exfoliation. The new capability was developed with Leistritz and represents a modification of the ZSE 40-MAXX platform.