TECHNOLOGY
The average person may not think about it, but Porous Plastic is everywhere and we use it everyday, whether we realize it or not.
Porous plastic is used in consumer products such as pens and markers, fragrance dispensors, aquarium diffusers, drinking water filters and jet ink jet printers ... in industrial applications like pneumatic filters, dust collectors, fluidizers and mufflers.
You’ll also find it in many healthcare applications such as drug delivery products, catheters, diagnostic wicks, and pipette filters. The applications go on and on.
What is Porous plastic? Well, it is more than plastic with holes in it.
By heating plastic particles to a point where they soften, but don’t completely melt – the plastic becomes tacky and expands. Neighboring particles stick together as the plastic cools. The end result is a cohesive mass of fused plastic particles with randomly oriented flow paths, molded to a unique configuration – ie. MicroPore Porous Plastic.
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By manipulating the polymer type, the particle size, the particle shape and many other variables ... we can engineer the characteristics of the porous plastic to meet most performance specifications.
Our engineers will design the appropriate pore size, pore volume, surface tension, configuration and many other characteristics to meet your unique needs. Active ingredients can be impregnated into the pores for specific function. We can make your porous plastic hydrophilic to, absorb water, or hydrophobic to, repel water. We can even make it self sealing, meaning the pores are open until the presence of water, then they seal, blocking the flow path.
The design possibilities for porous plastic are endless.
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