The first job I ever had involved stress testing strips of Amcel Acetal Copolymer and other plastics produced by American Celanese. By f*&k it was boring.Originally Posted by Qwin
Just to correct the information in Martins original posting:
ETP (Engineering Thermo Plastics) this is not a material, it is a generic term applied to all thermoplastics that have good structural properties suitable for more demanding performance criteria.
Delrin is a brand name of DuPont and this brand has approximately 20% of the market for the material, which is Polyoxymethylene (POM) sometimes called Acetal.
If you look at a recycling logo on a moulded product it will say POM.
As DuPont is primarily American the majority of UK users will use a different brand name to Delrin.
So it is more meaningful and universal to say this platter is made of POM or Acetal.
Sat in a tech lab looking out on a warehouse full of cement sized sacks of the stuff... pellets were generally everywhere.
It didn't last long... a summer job whilst still at school.
The thing is at the time that company really was producing some ground breaking plastics. Think the introduction of the plastic jug kettle. My father clinched the first sales deals with Kenwood etc and was responsible for setting up the first UK Amcel branch with a couple of other ex-ICI dudes if I remember correctly.
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