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    Plastic selection

    Polycarbonate is amorphous while POM (Acetal) is highly crystalline. Amorphous materials have a significant higher wear rate, that means the self-lubrication properties of Polycarbonate unfilled and unmodified is up to 30 times worse then high crystalline polymers. To overcome the issue you...
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    Fungus resistance of TPU 3060?

    I think the 3060 you are referring to is a 60 Shore D TPU on polyether basis. Usually how we would quality TPUs is we go by either Polyehter/Polyester and then look at the hardness you want and the grade density. With this I can probably pull out hundreds of alternatives since its a very common...

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