Headphones and wearables

Eastman specialty plastics can help deliver wearable technology that looks good and stands up to real-world daily use. For this market, devices must be comfortable for the wearer and keep delivering a high level of safety, acoustics and optical performance.

Our materials help headphones and wearable devices sound great and withstand wear and tear. These products will hold up while maintaining a pristine appearance thanks to their resistance to skin oils and sweat.

A woman wears headphones while lying down.

High-performance

Eastman Tritan™ copolyester and Tritan™ Renew offer attributes that are in demand in consumer wearable electronics markets. Our plastics offer durability, best-in-class chemical resistance, consumer-preferred aesthetics, compliance with environmental regulations and enhancement of audio/optical properties.

Tritan:

Withstands impact and assembly stress
Offers superior flex fatigue resistance
Resists sweat and skin oils
Works with lotions and hygienic cleaners
Improves resistance to environmental stress cracking (ESC)
Stabilizes clarity and color
Enhances tintability and gloss
Complies with California Proposition 65
Removes BPA and BPS to be safe for skin
Removes bisphenols, styrenics and halogens

Headphones and headsets

Headphone bands endure repeated flex stress and harsh chemical exposure from regular use. In-house and third-party testing shows how the flex fatigue resistance, chemical resistance and modulus of Eastman Tritan copolyester and Tritan Renew deliver durable performance under stress.

When audio performance is critical, the advantages of Tritan and Tritan Renew come through loud and clear. Recent collaborative testing showed how both materials create excellent vibration damping and improved distortion reduction.

Headphones with a microphone rest atop a computer monitor

Augmented/virtual reality

Makers and users of advanced AR/VR frames and housing trust Eastman Tritan copolyester and Tritan Renew for their impact strength and toughness when exposed to body oils and cleaners.

Health monitors

For body-contact monitors and fitness trackers, touching the skin is part of the job — which means chemical resistance is an important element of the polymer profile.

Both Tritan and Tritan Renew offer outstanding chemical resistance to reduce electronic stability control (ESC) and device failure.