From Shoe Factory to Academic Hall: How PC Polycarbonate Panels Revitalize Old Industrial Buildings

From Shoe Factory to Academic Hall: How PC Polycarbonate Panels Revitalize Old Industrial Buildings

When a university decided to relocate its architecture department to an old shoe factory, what design wisdom lies behind this seemingly incredible decision? In 2011, the renovation project by the Architectural Research Center (ARC) of the University of Nicosia provided an astonishing answer. This renovation project, located in the Engomi industrial area of Lebanon, not … Read more

Industry Insights on Robot Lightweighting

Industry Insights on Robot Lightweighting

1: What are the approaches to achieving robot lightweighting? Lightweighting mainly falls into two directions: structural lightweighting and material lightweighting. Structural lightweighting primarily involves design optimization, including increasing integration, improving topology, morphology, and parameters; material lightweighting focuses on using new lightweight materials to achieve weight reduction. 2. Besides polycarbonate, what other lightweight materials are worth … Read more

Types of Common Flame Retardants for PC and Their Mechanisms of Action

Types of Common Flame Retardants for PC and Their Mechanisms of Action

Click the blue text Follow us FOLLOW US Polycarbonate (PC), as one of the five major engineering plastics, is widely used in fields such as electronics, lighting, building materials, automotive parts, food packaging, and medical devices due to its advantages of high strength, high transparency, high impact resistance, and heat resistance. It is expected that … Read more

Flame Retardant Formulation for Polycarbonate Thin Films

Flame Retardant Formulation for Polycarbonate Thin Films

Click the blue text Follow us FOLLOW US Polycarbonate (PC) exhibits outstanding impact resistance, transparency, dimensional stability, excellent mechanical and electrical properties, as well as a high glass transition temperature, heat distortion temperature, and a wide range of operating temperatures (–60 to 120°C). The application fields of PC engineering plastics mainly include the glass assembly … Read more

Applications of Polycarbonate (PC) in Modern Plastics Industry

Applications of Polycarbonate (PC) in Modern Plastics Industry

This morning, Sina Mobile Weibo launched a voting activity, details as follows: The voting deadline is July 15, 2020, at 10:24. The editor has already voted for plastics. Everyone can also hurry to vote to give the plastics industry a good name! Website:https://vote.weibo.com/h5/index/index?vote_id=2020_1361068_-_12952c In fact, the application of plastics in mobile phones and electronic products … Read more

Top 50 Innovations Transforming the Plastic Industry: No. 4 – PC

Top 50 Innovations Transforming the Plastic Industry: No. 4 - PC

“Transparent Metal” Polycarbonate Polycarbonate (abbreviated as PC) is a polymer that contains carbonate groups in its molecular chains. Depending on the structure of the ester groups, it can be divided into various types including aliphatic, aromatic, and aliphatic-aromatic polycarbonates. Among these, the mechanical properties of aliphatic and aliphatic-aromatic polycarbonates are relatively low, which limits their … Read more

Carbon Neutrality Research | Overview of Carbon Emissions in Automotive Materials (Plastic Section – Polycarbonate)

Carbon Neutrality Research | Overview of Carbon Emissions in Automotive Materials (Plastic Section - Polycarbonate)

Polycarbonate (PC), a polymer containing carbonate groups in its molecular chain, is currently the fastest-growing general-purpose engineering plastic. In various end-use sectors of PC, the automotive sector accounts for approximately 16% of consumption. PC has been used in the automotive industry for over sixty years, with an average usage of about 11 kg per vehicle … Read more