The Plastic Mentor Blog
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Quality American Made Mechanical, Industrial and Machinable Grade Plastics
American Made Plastic Sheets and Rods Plastic Materials By Any Other Name… There are hundreds of plastic manufacturers, and even more plastic sheet, rod and tube suppliers. What makes one better or worse than another? Some of the biggest differences are in the quality...
Are Your Plastic Material Suppliers Stressing You Out
Stress In Plastic Sheet, Rod, Tube You know how bad it is when you get stressed out, with all the day to day challenges and issues? Well, plastics get stressed too. The process of producing plastics into sheet, rod and tube is a stressful manufacturing process. Stress...
Ultem® 1000 and 2300 Sheets and Rods – Polyetherimide or PEI
Ultem® Sheets Rods – Polyetherimide, PEI Polyetherimide or PEI is the generic name for one of the popular engineering resins. The most common resin supplier for this material is Sabic Plastics (formerly known at G.E. Plastics). This amorphous thermoplastic material...
Plastic Sheet and Sheets – In Stock Sheeting Materials
Available Plastic Sheet Material Today’s topic is all about industrial plastic sheet materials in flat sheet or sheets. Also known as plate, slab, strip and bar. Most plastic materials are processed into sheets or rods. Rods are round, sheet is flat, square or...
Why You Should Use Homopolymer Acetal or Acetal Copolymer Rod
Delrin® Homopolymer Acetal compared with Acetal Copolymer Many of our clients assume that Delrin® rod and Acetal rod are the same thing. This is not true. Yes, all Dupont Delrin® rod is Homopolymer Acetal rod, but not all Acetal rod is Delrin® rod. Delrin® is the...
Large Plastic Sheet and Plastic Rods from Gehr Plastics
Large engineering plastic from Gehr Plastics One of our secret claims to fame Since 1975 we have provided large diameter plastic rods and thick plastic sheets, plates, slabs and blocks. One of our long time 'secret' sources has been Gehr Plastics. Since 1932 the Gehr...
Medical Grade Plastic Sheet and Rod, UHMW, PEEK, Ultem materials
PLASTICS IN THE MEDICAL FIELD When we think of plastic, we think of plastic bags you get at the grocery store or maybe your child’s toy that’s made out of cheap throw away material. If you stop and think about it, plastic is everywhere and it’s uses are almost...
PVC Type 1, Type 2 and CPVC Sheet and Sheets
Types of PVC Sheet Most of our clients are surprised that PVC is available in sheet form. They are generally all familiar with PVC Pipe and its uses, but didn’t think they could get the same material in sheet or rod. PVC or Poly-Vinyl-Chloride is a tough and chemical...
Which plastic materials are recyclable?
Which Plastics are Recyclable? Over the last 50 years or so since plastic became more and more prevalent, over one billion tons of it has been disposed of and that number only continues to grow. Plastic, because of its molecular structure does take along time to...