Polymers
Polymers
Polyethylene (PE)
Polypropylene(PP)
Polystyrene (PS)
Polymers
Polystyrene is from the monomer known as styrene. It is a thermoplastic that can be both solid or foamed. General-purpose polystyrene is clear, hard, and rather brittle.
The solid, rigid polystyrene finds its use in the production of medical devices like test tubes or Petri dishes and in day-to-day items like your smoke detectors, food containers, e.t.c. The foam form of polystyrene is usually used as a protective packing material.
Polystyrene is one of the most widely used plastics and can be naturally transparent but can be coloured with colourants. As a thermoplastic polymer, polystyrene is in a solid (glassy) state at room temperature but flows if heated above about 100 °C, its glass transition temperature.
Characteristics
- Excellent electrical insulation properties
- Versatile
- Easy to process
- Impervious to most foods and liquids
- Good dimensional stability
Polyethylene (PE)
Polyethylene is the most common plastic in use today. It is a polymer primarily used for packaging, accounting for 34% of the total plastics market.
PE is usually a mixture of similar polymers of ethylene and can be low density, or high-density Polyethylene is usually thermoplastic, but it can be modified to become thermosetting instead.
Kamsource supplies quality plastic Resin Polyethylene. Our products include versatile polyethylene grades, such as HDPE, LDPE, and LLDPE. These raw materials provide a variety of commodities that are used to advance solutions in almost every sector of the economy and industries like film packaging, piping, agriculture, and automobile parts.
Characteristics
- Excellent chemical and impact resistance
- Lightweight
- Easily processable
- Outstanding electrical insulating properties
- Low water absorption
Polypropylene(PP)
Polypropylene, also known as polypropylene, is the second-most widely produced commodity plastic. It is a thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications.
It is produced from the chain-growth polymerization of monomer propylene.
Polypropylene properties are similar to polyethylene, but it is slightly more rigid and more heat resistant. It is a white, mechanically rugged material and has a high chemical resistance. Polypropylene can be used in different flexible and rigid packaging, can be in the automobile industry, can be used for medical purposes and several consumer products.
Characteristics
- Chemical resistance
- Excellent insulation
- Fatigue resistance
- Reasonably tough
Polystyrene (PS)
Polystyrene is from the monomer known as styrene. It is a thermoplastic that can be both solid or foamed. General-purpose polystyrene is clear, hard, and rather brittle
The solid, rigid polystyrene finds its use in the production of medical devices like test tubes or Petri dishes and in day-to-day items like your smoke detectors, food containers, e.t.c. The foam form of polystyrene is usually used as a protective packing material
Polystyrene is one of the most widely used plastics and can be naturally transparent but can be coloured with colourants. As a thermoplastic polymer, polystyrene is in a solid (glassy) state at room temperature but flows if heated above about 100 °C, its glass transition temperature.
Characteristics
- Excellent electrical insulation properties
- Versatile
- Easy to process
- Impervious to most foods and liquids
- Good dimensional stability
