PET foam sheet finds industrial uses abroad.While market acceptance of PET foam sheet for packaging has proved an elusive goal in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , European processors are making a stab at industrial applications. This year, both Fagerdala Benelux SA in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium (part of Fagerdala World Foams in Sweden), and Alcan Airex, part of Alcan Composites in Sins, Switzerland Sins is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. , commercialized extruded, closed-cell PET foam sheets as structural core materials for composites. Both firms aim to replace PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride. PVC in full polyvinyl chloride Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide. foam, high-density urethane urethane (yoor´ithān´), n ethyl carbamate used as an anesthetic agent for laboratory animals, formerly used as a hypnotic in humans. foam, and balsa cores. Fagerdala began production of PET foam board in densities of 6.2 and 9.4 pcf and thicknesses of 35 and 40 ram. The boards can be sliced down to 3 mm thick. Tel: +32 (87) 32 50 70 * www.fagerdalahicore.com Airex launched its T90 structural PET foam in five densities from 6 to 25 pcf and thicknesses from 5 to 100 ram. Tel: +41 (41) 789 6600 * www.alcanairex.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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