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

  • 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

  • Mycket hög längdutvidgningskoefficient.
  • Låg resistans mot krypning vid belastning.
  • Sämre utmattningshållfasthet än polypropen.
  • Brinner häftigt.
  • Angrips av oxiderande syror.
  • Hög formkrympning.
  • Svårt och limma.
  • Känslig för spänningskorrosion.
  • Dålig väderbeständighet (om ej svart).
  • Svårt att förse med text utan föregående ytbehandling.
  • Låg reptålighet.
  • Mekaniska egenskaper, starkt temperaturberoende.

Specific properties

Bemalon 1000 ASTL is a PE-UHMW material with extremely high molecular weight. This material is specially developed for demanding, abrasive industrial applications. The added additives give the material high resistance to UV radiation and have static dissipative properties.

The material has also been tested in accordance with the ATEX directive 2014/347 / EU. and complies with EU 1935/2004, EU 10/2011 and GMP EU 2023/2006. The material otherwise has the same properties as Bemalon 1000 ASTL.