Automotive OEMs have increasingly become more interested in monitoring cabin air quality inside the vehicle. This leads to the need for further understanding and testing of emissions from the various materials including plastic parts. Other industries such as cosmetics packaging or medical are also interested in emissions from materials. This paper looks at emissions testing in general, for POM specifically, effects of colorants and other additives on emissions, and formulations that significantly reduce these emissions from the molded part. Discussion in prior papers presented at the SPE ANTEC? 2010 and the CAD RETEC? 2010 have focused on eliminating painting and plating for appearance parts [ 1, 2]. One of the drivers was to get "green" by eliminating VOCs from the painting process. For automotive interior applications in particular, we can further get "green" by also reducing VOCs from materials used inside the vehicle. This topic was introduced at CAD RETEC? 2010, but will be explored in greater detail in this work.
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