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News Release from: Victrex USA | Subject: Victrex APTIV film brochure
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 12 March 2008
Films cut costs but retain durability
A new 12-page technical brochure from Victrex demonstrates how its Victrex APTIV films provide a material solution for engineers and designers in high-performance applications.
A new 12-page technical brochure from Victrex demonstrates how its Victrex Aptiv films provide a solution for engineers and designers in high-performance applications Aptiv films, based on Victrex Peek polymer, offer performance and versatility to meet the growing demands for reduced systems cost and improved product performance, including durability, reliability, miniaturisation and increased functionality faced by manufacturers across the globe
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 17 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The brochure details Aptiv films' high-temperature performance, mechanical strength, chemical resistance, electrical insulation, wear and abrasion-resistance and low moisture absorption.
The films offer tight thickness tolerances, wide film widths up to 1.5m and a broad thickness range from 6 to 750 microns.
Various Aptiv film grades are reviewed in-depth as well as secondary process operations that Aptiv films can be subjected to post-manufacturing.
These include adhesion surface treatments, coatings, slitting, die cutting and stamping thermal lamination, heat welding and heat sealing, thermoforming, laser marking, laser ablation and laser machining, printing and metallisation.
In addition, there is comparative technical data, including detailed charts comparing Aptiv films to films such as PI, PEI and PTFE.
The overall performance of Aptiv films is reviewed and compared to a range of other films in terms of moisture uptake, hydrolysis resistance, tensile modulus, radiation resistance, puncture resistance, dynamic coefficient of friction, tear strength, abrasion resistance, gas permeation, oxygen transmission, di-electric strength and di-electric constant.
The brochure focuses on applications for Aptiv films and details a number of case histories detailing its use on thin film antennas, diaphragm liners for back pressure regulators, membrane switch panels and sensors and microphone spacer films for mobile phones.
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