Developments in high temperature plastics

The brief outline I have given covers only a few of the various polymers investigated; the future applications are vast and it is in the hands of the polymer chemist and the plastics technologist to produce materials with all the accepted properties we have come to know but with the added advantage of working continuously at higher temperatures. Plastics with their new found “stiffness” and recognized weight advantage over metals only need their working temperatures to be raised for them to be first choice in numerous applications. It is then that the engineers and engineering designers will be able to utilize these properties in a whole new range of finished products.