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Application area: General industry
General facts Polyethylene
Shortening: PE
Color: White, colorless
Coloring options: Unlimited
Common uses: Household items, bottles, pipes, buckets, fuel tanks, cable insulation, etc.
Benefits Restrictions Technical data
Benefits
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 simultaneous cellular and fiberglass structure.
Low Price.
Restrictions
Very high coefficient of longitudinal expansion.
Low resistance to creep under load.
Poor fatigue strength than polypropylene.
Burns fiercely.
Attacked by oxidizing acids.
High shape shrinkage.
Hard and 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.
Specific properties
With the addition of lubricants that give the material low friction, improved abrasion resistance and UV resistance as well as static dissipative properties. Particularly suitable for dusty environments, for example in package sorting equipment.
