Bemalon BPE-UHMW15

Shortening PE
Color White, colorless
Coloring options Unlimited
Common uses Household items, bottles, pipes, buckets, fuel tanks, cable insulation, etc.
Type Polyethylene
  • Benefits
  • Limitations
  • Documents
  • Very good impact resistance over a wide temperature range.
  • Good electrical properties.
  • Low water absorption
  • Resistant to most chemicals
  • Can be used in contact with food
  • Available in several variants with varying melt index and molecular weight from very weak to semi-rigid materials.
  • Stiffened with filler or fiberglass
  • Expands to foam
  • Occurs as a construction plastic with
  • Low Price
  • Very high coefficient of longitudinal expansion.
  • Very high coefficient of longitudinal expansion.
  • Poor fatigue strength than polypropylene.
  • Burns fiercely.
  • Attacked by oxidizing acids.
  • High shape shrinkage
  • Hard to glue.
  • Sensitive to stress corrosion.
  • Poor weather resistance (if not black).
  • Difficult to provide text without prior surface treatment.
  • Low scratch resistance.
  • Mechanical properties, strongly temperature dependent.

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