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Tuffak® FI (Makrolon® FI) - FR Polycarbonate
Tuffak® FI (formerly Makrolon® FI) Flame Retardant (FR) Polycarbonate Sheet is a flame-inhibiting polycarbonate sheet is formulated for electrical and electronic device applications. Tuffak® FI (Makrolon® FI) polycarbonate sheets offer V-0 ratings under the UL 94 test criteria in thicknesses from .060", and UL 94 5VA Flammability Resistance at .118" thickness and greater. Tuffak® FI is also UV stabilized in gauges greater than .118".
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Tuffak® HV (Makrolon® HV)
Tuffak® HV (formerly Makrolon® HV) (Heavy Equipment Glazing) sheet is a hard coated polycarbonate product designed for applications that demand high optics and durability. State of the art manufacturing and inspection processes support low optical distortion. The high impact strength of Tuffak® HV (Makrolon® HV) polycarbonate provides a level of safety and the advanced hard coat technology offers improved abrasion and chemical resistance and enhanced weathering performance. Tuffak® HV (Makrolon® HV) is available in clear, a range of standard tints, or can be custom matched to any color.
Applications: Off-road, specialty and heavy duty vehicle glazing
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Tuffak® LD (Makrolon® LD)
Tuffak® LD (formerly Makrolon® LD) sheet is a highly UV stable polycarbonate product designed to provide superior light diffusion characteristics while maintaining high light transmission. The proprietary diffuser technology eliminates visible hot spots from pinpoint LED lights in typical flat and formed sign applications. The sheet is easy to form, fabricate and decorate and has excellent impact strength and dimensional stability.
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Tuffak® OP-V (Makrolon® OP-V ) Optical Grade FR
Tuffak® OP-V (formerly Makrolon® OP-V) sheet is a polished surface, UV stabilized, transparent polycarbonate product. OP-V is a flame retardant grade, UL 94 V-2 rating at 0.060" and greater, and V-0 rating at 0.236" and greater. Designed for use in applications requiring improved optical quality, it features outstanding impact strength, superior dimensional stability, high temperature resistance, and high clarity. This lightweight thermoformable sheet is also easy to fabricate and decorate.
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Tuffak® SL (Makrolon® SL) Sign Grade Polycarbonate
Tuffak® SL (formerly Makrolon® SL) Sign Grade, available in sheet and reel, is an enhanced UV resistant product with exceptional weatherability and superior impact strength. Available in clear and nine industry standard colors, Tuffak® SL (Makrolon® SL) meets UL 48 for electrical signage. Tuffak® SL (Makrolon® SL) can be easily fabricated, thermoformed, and decorated, and has a proven track record of outstanding performance in any environment. With Tuffak® SL (Makrolon® SL) sign grade products, you can be confident your company image is secure. The terms of the warranty against breakage are set forth in the Tuffak® SL (Makrolon® SL) warranty, which is available upon request. Lengths and widths listed below are in reels.
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Tuffak® TG (Makrolon® TG) Transportation Grade
Tuffak® TG (formerly Makrolon® TG) Transportation Grade Polycarbonate sheet is a transparent, optically clear, virtually unbreakable sheet featuring a leading edge surface hard-coat technology for enhanced abrasion and UV resistance. It is formulated to meet eh stringent Federal Railroad Administration requirement for Type I and II ballistic and impact performance criteria for side glazing windows as part of a component in a dual-glazed system.
- Thicknesses: .236" (TG 236), .250" (TG 250) & .460" (TG 460)
- Tuffak® and Makrolon® are registered trade names of Plaskolite, Inc.
- In August 2018, Plaskolite purchased the Makrolon sheet business of Coverstro - Plaskolite Plastics
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Tuffak® TX (Makrolon® TX)
Tuffak® TX (formerly Makrolon® TX) sheet is a hard-coated polycarbonate product designed to meet demanding transportation glazing applications. The sheet provides high impact performance at half the weight of the glass. The advanced hard coat technology provides extended outdoor weathering properties and significantly enhances abrasion and chemical resistance. Tuffak® TX (Makrolon® TX) meets DOT/ANSI Z26.1 Item AS-4 and is available in clear, as well as a variety of standard and custom tints.
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Tuffak® UC (Makrolon® UC)
Tuffak® UC (formerly Makrolon® UC) is a polycarbonate product characterized by high visible light transmission in comparison to other polycarbonate products. This product is suitable for lamination with glass using conventional lamination techniques.
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Tuffak® UV (Makrolon® UV)
Tuffak® UV (formerly Makrolon® UV) polycarbonate sheet is an enhanced UV-resistant sheet with exceptional weather ability and high impact strength. Available in clear as well as a variety of colors, UV is the perfect choice for architectural applications where extended service life and resistance to color shift is required. Tuffak® UV (Makrolon® UV) polycarbonate sheet is easily thermoformed, fabricated, and decorated. This performance is backed by a 10-year limited warranty against breakage, excessive yellowing, and loss of light transmission.
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Vespel® SP-22 Rod & Plate
Vespel® Sheets & Vespel® Rods - Vespel® SP-22 by DuPont
Designing with tight tolerances? Vespel SP-22 is the answer. When you have no room for error, Vespel SP-22's minimal thermal expansion and dimensional stability give you the freedom to create exactly what you've imagined. Vespel® SP-22 has 40% graphite by weight for enhanced wear resistance, lower friction, improved dimensional stability (low coefficient of thermal expansion), and stability against oxidation. Product listing does not imply any formal relationship between Professional Plastics and DuPont. DuPont certifications are non-transferable therefore material is provided with Professional Plastics certifications.
Specifications:
- ASTM-D 6456-99 Ty 2, Class 2
- AMS 3644 Class 3
- Mil-R-46198 Type 2, Class 2
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![VHMW - King Hy-Pact®]( "VHMW - King Hy-Pact®")
VHMW - King Hy-Pact®
King Hy-Pact® is the super tough industrial polymer sheet that is environmentally stabilized with excellent physical properties and is a cost effective material. Tests have shown after 2,000 hours of UV exposure, King Hy-Pact outperforms both UV stabilized HDPE and UHMW with superior toughness in wear resistance, flexibility and high-impact strength. It has a clean white color with a smooth, non-skived finish for better material flow. Applications for King Hy-Pact include, but are not limited to, food processing chutes, star wheels, machine products, snowplow blades, and dock fenders. King Hy-Pact is a product of a proprietary process called K-Stran®, the most advanced manufacturing process for producing sheets with widths up to 72", tight tolerances, custom colors and sheet sizes, and small minimum requirements. King Hy-Pact is the smart choice for many high abuse applications requiring superior properties, outstanding flatness and a smooth surface while providing significant cost savings.
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Vulcanized Fibre Rod & Tube
Vulcanized Fibre, also known as Fishpaper, is a strong paperboard insulation used primarily for its excellent electrical insulating properties. Fish paper is a vulcanized fiber and is very flexible. Used frequently for electrical insulation, fishpaper is commonly die cut and machined. Our fishpaper is extremly durable and is available both in Sheet Stock, Solid Rods, Spiral Tubes & custom parts.
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Wollastonite-Filled PTFE
Wollastonite (calcium silicate) is a mineral filler giving properties similar to glass (minus the abrasiveness). The FDA has approved it for food service. Woolastonite-filled PTFE Sheets, Rods and Tubes are available from Professional Plastics on a custom-order basis.
Wollastonite is one of many fillers that are compounded into PTFE to provide specific properties.
PTFE fillers don't act like elastomer fillers, which become chemically bonded to the elastomer. With polytetrafluoroethylene, the high shear modulus fillers are encapsulated and bound by the low shear modulus PTFE.
Teflon® is but one trade name (others include Algoflon® from Ausimont USA and Polyflon® from Daikin) for polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). PTFE is a completely fluorinated polymer manufactured when the monomer tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) undergoes free radical vinyl polymerization. As a monomer, TFE is made up of a pair of double-bonded carbon atoms, both of which have two fluorine atoms covalently bonded to them. Thus the name: ôtetra" means there are four atoms bonded to the carbons, ôfluoro" means those bonded atoms are fluorine, and ôethylene" means the carbons are joined by a double bond as in the classic ethylene structure. (Ethylene has hydrogen atoms attached to the carbons, but TFE has fluorine in place of the hydrogen. When TFE polymerizes into PTFE, the carbon-to-carbon double bond becomes a single bond and a long chain of carbon atoms is formed, as in Figure 3. This chain is the polymer's backbone, and it gives PTFE its ôpoly" quality.
With a ratio of four fluorine atoms to every two carbon atoms, the backbone is essentially shielded from contact. It's almost impossible for any other chemical structure to gain access to the carbon
atoms. This gives PTFE extraordinary chemical resistance. It's tough for a solvent or other agent to degrade the backbone if the carbon is ôout of reach." Even if an agent could gain access, the carbon-to-fluorine bonds have high bond disassociation energy, making them almost unbreakable.
What makes PTFE so slippery? By its very nature, the fluorine in PTFE repels everything. As part of a molecule, fluorine is decidedly ôanti-social." It wants to get as far away from other molecules as possible. Anything getting close is automatically repelled, and repelled molecules can't stick to the PTFE surface.
The inability of other materials to stick to PTFE makes it perfect for applications requiring a low coefficient of friction. The only thing slicker than PTFE is ice! Because they are essentially self-lubricating, PTFE parts are ideal for applications in which external lubricants (such as oils and greases) can't be used.
As the most chemically resistant thermoplastic polymer available, PTFE is inert to almost all chemicals and solvents, allowing PTFE parts to function well in acids, alcohols, alkalis, esters, ketones, and hydrocarbons. There are only a few substances harmful to PTFE, notably fluorine, chlorine trifluoride, and molten alkali metal solutions at high pressures.
PTFE can also withstand a wide range of temperatures (-300° to 500° F, -184° to 260° C). Because it's non-flammable and doesn't dissipate heat, PTFE is often used as a thermal insulator (as in welding equipment). At the other extreme, PTFE is widely used in very cold environments (such as space). Other important properties include resistance to both weathering and water absorption. PTFE can also act as an electrical insulator.
Because of its chemical inertness, PTFE cannot be cross-linked like an elastomer. Therefore it has no memory and is subject to creep (also known as cold flow). Creep is the increasing deformation of a material under a constant compressive load. This can be both good and bad. A little bit of creep allows PTFE seals to conform to mating surfaces better than most other plastic seals. Too much creep, however, and the seal is compromised. Compounding fillers are used to control unwanted creep, as well as to improve wear, friction, and other properties.
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![Zotefoams - Plastazote® Foams]( "Zotefoams - Plastazote® Foams")
Zotefoams - Plastazote® Foams
Zotefoams Product Range: The unique nitrogen expansion process results in a range of foams produced from a wide range of polymers, including LDPE, HDPE PP, EVA copolymers and the recently introduced metallocene catalyst based foams.
Plastazote® Foam (LD45)-
Plastazote® is a closed cell cross-linked polyethylene foam with a density of 45 Kg/M3. A wide range of polymer combinations give increased stiffness, improved temperature resistance and improved moldability. Application areas include packaging, protective padding contact sports, automotive applications, health care and for construction.
Plastazote® Foam (LD 15)- Plastazote LD15 Low Density Polyethylene Foam with a density of 15 Kg/M3. Plastazote is a closed cell, cross-linked polyethylene foam manufactured using Zotefoams unique production process. Plastazote foam LD15 which is available in sheet form and is fabricated by modern techniques and can be thermoformed into shapes.
Plastazote® is acknowledged as the most cited thermoplastic foam material in medical literature. The material is used extensively in a wide variety of medical and health care applications, many of which involve direct skin contact. These outstanding properties stem from the unique manufacturing process technology, which produces a pure, chemically inert foam without blowing agent residues and with a uniform cell structure with regular cell walls.
Latex-free, non-toxic and hypoallergenic, the use of Plastazote foams helps reduce skin irritation. Plastazote foams are typified by their highly consistent cell structure. Because they are expanded in a free environment (without the use of a mold) they also have little in-built stress and little tendency to distort during conversion; both features that make them easy to process and fabricate.
Plastazote foams can be routed cleanly to produce the most complex of shapes. Being cross-linked they are equally suitable for thermoforming, either by compression or vacuum molding. They can be split, sawn, water jet cut, die-cut, butt-welded and heat laminated together to form thicker blocks.
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Zytel® ST801 "Super Tough" Nylon
Zytel® ST801 is a general purpose Super Tough nylon 66 resin. It offers outstanding impact resistance and high productivity. Zytel® ST resins give you the right properties and design freedom for a wide variety of rugged industrial and consumer products. Here are just a few of the many possibilities: fasteners for automotive and industrial use; high performance cable ties; sporting goods, especially
those needing low temperature toughness; safety products such as fire extinguisher valves; automotive parts of various kinds including emission canisters, roof racks and more; power tools; and appliance components such as impeller fans, bag clips, etc. Zytel® ST801 is an upgrade over standard nylon parts thanks to their outstanding toughness and durability.
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ABS Machine Grade - FR
ABS Machine Grade FLAME RETARDANT (engineering grade ABS with flame retardant additive) is available from Professional Plastics, Inc.. ABS has perhaps the best balance of properties when cost is a factor. It has good chemical and stress-resistance as well as a combination of toughness with rigidity and creep resistance.
- UL 94V-0 Flame Retardant performance
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Acetal SD - static-dissipative
Acetal SD (aka POM SD, ESd Acetal) products are inherently dissipative and electrically stable unlike many other static"dissipative" plastic shapes. They do not rely on atmospheric phenomena to activate, nor are surface treatments used to achieve dissipation. Static electricity is dissipated through these products as readily as it is dissipated along the surface. All of these products dissipate 5 KV in less than 2 seconds per Mil-B-81705C. Acetal SD (ESd) is ideal for fixturing used in the manufacturing of hard disk drives or for handling in-process silicon wafers. POM SD - ESd Acetal is stocked at Professional Plastics locations in the USA, Singapore & Taiwan.
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Acetron® Food Grade Blue 50
Acetron® Food Grade Blue 50 POM-C is compliant in both Europe and North America, which is one of the key competitive advantages that it offers to the Food Processing industry. For companies that are exporting, this is critical as they will now only need one material to meet the demands and requirements of both EU and NA. Blue in color for visual detection, increased food product safety, and proactive contamination prevention, Acetron® Food Grade Blue 50 POM-C is the most recent addition to Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials' Dual Compliant offerings (FDA and EU Food Grade).
Common Applications;
- Scrapers - Knife Guides - Portioning Knives - Gears - Sprockets - Rollers - Extrusion Dies - Filling Nozzles - Timing Screws
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Acetron® GP Acetal
Acetron GP is MCAM-Quadrant EPP's general purpose acetal and is the only porosity-free acetal product available today. Investments in process technology by MCAM-Quadrant EPP now provide the performance and machinability of acetal without center core porosity. Our in-line photometric quality procedure assures every Acetron GP plate and rod is porosity-free as measured by MCAM-Quadrant EPP's quick check dye penetrant test. For details of test methods, contact MCAM-Quadrant EPP. Acetron GP natural is FDA, USDA, NSF, Canada AG and 3A-Dairy compliant.
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![Acetron® GP FDA Colors]( "Acetron® GP FDA Colors")
Acetron® GP FDA Colors
Acetron® GP FDA Colors is a new FDA-Compliant Colored Acetal. Improved process technology now allows MCAM-Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products to offer seven standard FDA-compliant colors of Acetron® GP acetal rod in small quantities and drastically-reduced lead times.
The new capability in colored stock shapes for machining overcomes the historical two to three months' lead time and high minimum order volume requirements due to resin and shapes production limitations. All of the new Acetron® GP colors meet the requirements of FDA Regulation 21 CFR, Section 177.2470 (e)(1),(2).
The colors are ideal where change-out parts need to be quickly and easily identified for use on specific processes.
MCAM-Quadrant's Acetron® GP, in red, blue, green, yellow, orange, gray and brown, is available within 3-4 weeks from date of order, in quantities of about 200 lbs per size and color, depending on diameter. Sample discs are available for specification purposes.
The colors are strictly intended for industrial, pharmaceutical and food-related applications, and are not suitable for medical orthopedic use, at this time.
This standard set of colors gives engineers access to Acetron GP acetal's porosity-free, low stress and cost-effective performance in machined parts, while adding increased functionality to their end product. The breakthrough is our ability to compress the time and volume formerly necessary for colors from the resin supplier and in our own shapes production.
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