Polycarbonate is a type of thermoplastic with excellent thermoforming properties. Polycarbonate is employed for a variety of purposes, including the manufacture of indestructible eye glasses and protecting the surfaces of DVDs. In terms of identity documents, polycarbonate makes it possible to incorporate a significant number of additional security features, including Changeable Laser Images (CLIs); clear-windows-transparent…
Polyethylene terephthalate (sometimes written poly(ethylene terephthalate)), commonly abbreviated PET, is a thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in synthetic fibers; beverage, food and other liquid containers; thermoforming applications; and engineering resins often in combination with glass fiber.
Polyvinyl chloride, commonly abbreviated PVC, is the third-most widely produced polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene. PVC comes in two basic forms: rigid (sometimes abbreviated as RPVC) and flexible. The rigid form of PVC is used for identification, bank or membership cards.
Regardless of its components, the paper making recipe involves product (wood/cotton/linen), water, and energy to create. In short, the product is cleaned with water, then sent on to the pulping process where more water is used to separate the fibers from one another. Spreading the fibers out along a moving belt of wire mesh, heat…
Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Similar to wood, there are two primary flax fibers, short and long. The short is used for a coarser final product, and the long fibers for higher quality products. Most of these high-end products are the result of hand sorting the raw flax…
Wood fibers are cleaned with water, then sent to the pulping process where more water is used to separate the fibers from one another. Spreading the fibers out along a moving belt of wire mesh, heat and pressure slowly removes the water. The final dry product is rolled, or calendared, and then cut to size…
