PlasTell Supported Materials
Sep 21, 2022
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PlasTell supports the following materials:
| Polymer | Identification comment |
| PET (polyethylene terepthalate) | |
| PE (polyethylene) | It is not possible to reliably recognise between the PE grades (LDPE, HDPE, LLDPE) with NIR. Any of these three will shows as PE. |
| PVC (polyvinylchloride) | Spectra are quite varied due to the variety of plasticisers used but our library is also quite wide so generally works. |
| PS (polystyrene) | |
| PC (polycarbonate) | Work in progress on ABS-PC blend recognition |
| ABS (poly(acetonitrilebutadienestyrene)) | Work in progress on ABS-PC blend recognition |
| PP (polypropylene) | All types of PP (isotactic, atactic etc.) will be identified as "PP". |
| PLA (polylactic acid) | |
| PETG (glycol-modified PET) | Quite similar to |
| PU (polyurethane) | TPU will also be recognised as PU due to their similarity. |
| PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate, acrylic) | |
| PVDF* (polyvinylidene fluoride) | experimental support |
| PEEK* (polyether ether ketone) | experimental support |
| POM* (polyoxymethylene, acetal) | experimental support |
| PAI* (polyamide-imidie) | experimental support (very few samples in the library) |
| ASA* (acrylonitrile styrene acrylate) | experimental support |
| PSU* (polysulphone) | experimental support (very few samples in the library) |
| PEI* (polyetherimide) | experimental support (very few samples in the library) |
| SAN* (styrene acrylonitrile) | experimental support. Very similar to ABS (which is an acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene copolymer) - the only difference is the presence of butadiene in low %. |
| EVA* (ethylene vinyl acetate) | experimental support. Can be quite similar to PE hence not enabled by default. |
| paper* (cellulose) | experimental support |
| SIL* (silicone rubber) | experimental support - new May 2022 |
| NBR* (nitrile butadiene rubber) | experimental support - new May 2022 |
| RUB* (natural & synthetic rubber) | experimental support - new May 2022. Can be similar to PE and PP hence not enabled by default. If you are only identifying rubbers, please disable PE and PP. |
*not enabled by default - please enable it if you need it.
Other (or custom) materials
If you would like to identify other materials, we made it possibly to add new materials and samples to the library!
