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engineering plastics

engineering plastics

[‚en·jə′nir·iŋ ′plas·tiks]
(organic chemistry)
A class of polymers, based on aromatic backbones, having high strength, stiffness, and toughness together with high thermal and oxidative stability, low creep, and the ability to be processed by standard techniques for thermoplastics; examples include polyacetal, polyamide, polycarbonate, and polysulfone resins.
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LNP Engineering Plastics, Exton, Pa., introduced a pair of flame-retardant compounds that withstand the higher temperatures of lead-free infrared-reflow soldering of electronic assemblies.
The plan provides for the exchange of Akzo's engineering plastics units to DSM and DSM's powder coatings activities to Akzo, effective January 1, 1992.
Gurugram (Haryana) [India] May 12 (ANI/NewsVoir): SRF Limited, a chemical based multi-business entity engaged in the manufacturing of industrial and speciality intermediates announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Engineering Plastics Business to DSM, the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company in an all-cash transaction, amounting to Rs 320 crore.
Worldwide, electrical and electronic applications as well as consumer goods are among the most important sales markets for many engineering plastics - almost 25% of global demand originate in each of these two sectors.
Engineering Plastics Market by Type (PC, ABS, PET & PBT, POM, Fluoropolymers and Others), Application (Automotive & Transport, Industrial & Machinery, Packaging, Consumer Appliances, and Others) - Global Forecast to 2020
Royal DSM has appointed Roeland Polet as business group director DSM Engineering Plastics, succeeding Roelof Westerbeek.
In his last role as managing director of the Engineering Plastics Division of Rochling, he had frill responsibility for the Composites and Medical Plastics business units.
Although the word diablo is Spanish for devil presumably it is the environs that said creature lives in that is the context for the use of the word in the name of a polyamide 46 developed by engineering plastics company DSM (dsm.com): Stanyl Diablo.
ZeMac copolymers are available for upgrading nylon and other engineering plastics during compounding.
As a market close to $100 billion, fast-developing engineering plastics represent a future with untapped potential in the plastics industry.
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