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Engineering and high performance polymers cover a wide spectrum of materials that are valued, among other things, for its temperature resistance, strength, dimensional stability and chemical resistance in many demanding applications. This new market report from Rapra, discusses their key performance properties, trends in the evolution of materials and their application in automotive, electrical and electronics, industrial, consumer products and other markets, including doctors.

Engineering polymers have been commercially available for many decades and a number of new high performance materials have also been introduced in the market for the past twenty years. Polymer scientists continue to develop higher performance thermoplastic that can challenge traditional materials such as metal and thermosets. In fact, the last five years have seen substantial growth in the top of the range of materials such as liquid crystal polymers and polyketones. There is no widely accepted definition of the engineering industry or a high performance polymer.

However, these materials typically have a number of desirable properties such as yield strength, temperature resistance and dimensional stability that are far superior to the standard thermoplastics. There is inevitably some overlap between the high-end engineering and plastics materials lowEnd performance profile in terms of their property. As a general rule, however, high-performance plastics are considered to have a short term heat resistance of 250 ° C and long-term heat resistance of 160 ° C.