Industrial Applications and Compatible Hose Technology Many people have heard the term aqua regia, but what exactly is this special ‘water’ and what is it made of? The name “aqua …
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Polyurethane: Properties and Applications
What do ski boots, household sponges, mattresses, and insulation panels have in common? All of these products contain the plastic polyurethane. Who Developed PUR? Polyurethane was developed in 1937 by …
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Polyethylene (PE) is one of the plastics that, thanks to its favourable material properties, has found a wide range of applications and become an indispensable mass-market material. Polyethylene – The …
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Polymers for Safe Contact With Food and Beverages Whether as PET bottles, packaging films, or tubes and hoses in machines for processing meat, fish, poultry and dairy products, in equipment …
Read more »USP Class VI approval – What Does it Mean?
Plastics used in medical technology and pharmaceuticals are classified into six biocompatibility classes in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), the US pharmacopoeia. To assign elastomers and other polymeric materials to …
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