An industrial customer needed to laminate another substrate to the surface of clear PET-G sheet. Over many years the PET-G sheet supplied by distribution had been inconsistent for flatness, squareness and dimensional tolerance. These problems meant that the sheet often caused problems in their laminating equipment. The producer of the sheet had promised improvements many […]
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An industrial product manufacturer needed clear PET-G sheet with a thickness tolerance of +/- 0.005%. Local distributors were only able to guarantee a thickness tolerance of +/-10% as they were not able to obtain product with a tighter tolerance from their suppliers. HighLine carried out trials over a number of production runs to verify that […]
A thermo-former of tight tolerance polycarbonate parts needed consistent shrinkage in both the extrusion direction and the cross direction in order to accurately form parts. They had been experiencing shrinkage in the range of 0% to 8% from polycarbonate purchased from distribution. To account for the wide range of shrinkage, oversized sheets had to be […]