Introduction to Technical Plastics

Hello!

As an Introduction to Technical Plastics the tendency is to think that everyone is the same, but this thought is very far from reality. There is a very wide variation, elaborated by means of different methods and techniques, they originate, the vast majority, from raw materials obtained in chemical plants from petroleum derivatives.

For our activity we take as reference the so-called “technical plastics or engineering plastics”.

It is a limited group of materials used for the production of parts or mechanisms, which will form part of the most diverse production facilities, in any industrial sector.

Technical plastics are materials capable of withstanding loads and speeds that other plastics used to make wastebaskets or other everyday components cannot resist.

Technical plastics have advantages and disadvantages compared to metals. Later we will go deeper, but note that technical plastics are the lightest materials.

It is important to achieve the choice of the appropriate technical plastic, depending on each application and its parameters: resistives, clearances and tolerances.

Technical Plastics Abbreviations

For the next post we will talk about how to obtain the technical plastics used for our activity, which focuses on machining by chip removal, in machine tools.

Until next time!

Elia Millán

Commercial Technician