BDE-Materials

Polycarbonates are amorphous engineering thermoplastics that offer exceptional toughness over a wide temperature range.

Polybenzimidazole (PBI) was first polymerized by scientists in the 1950s.

One of the features that characterize stainless steels is a minimum 10.

Acetal resins are highly crystalline plastics based on formaldehyde polymerization technology.

Manufactured carbon comprises a large family of materials, available in hundreds of grades and shapes including plates, rods, tubes, and rings.

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have two big advantages over the conventional thermoset (vulcanized) types -- processing ease and speed.

The family of thermoplastics are extremely inert, paraffinic thermoplastic polymers that have some or all of the hydrogen replaced with fluorine.

Iron, nickel, and cobalt-based alloys used primarily for high-temperature applications are known as superalloys.

Refractory hard metals (RHMs) are a ceramiclike class of materials made from metal-carbide particles bonded together by a metal matrix.

These rubbers include grades suitable for service at temperatures to 250°C and having maximum resistance to oils and greases.

The same properties that qualify tool steels for tools and dies are also used for other parts that require resistance to wear, stability during heat treatment, strength at high temperatures, or toughness.

Among the vinyl polymers and copolymers, the polyvinyl-chloride (PVC) thermoplastics are the most commercially significant.

ABS resins are hard, rigid, and tough, even at low temperatures.

Phenolic molding materials - some times called the workhorse of the thermosets - are high-performance engineering plastics.

Alloys, or blends of PPE and polystyrene in various proportions, are marketed under the tradenames of Noryl and Prevex (General Electric).