Materials
It all comes down to the ingredients
The BWF Profiles and BWF Thermoforms Material Compendium
Whether light-directing, light-diffusing, light-conducting or light-reflecting – even in combination with special fire protection requirements – we are your partner in the selection and processing of the suitable material!
For more than half a century, BWF Profiles and BWF Thermoforms have been producing plastic profiles, tubes, sheets, optical foils, thermoformed parts and injection moulded parts from thermoplastics. In addition to our stock and standard range, we also manufacture customised products from a wide variety of raw materials on a large scale.
BWF Profiles and BWF Thermoforms exclusively use high-quality granulates and sheet material from the world’s leading premium manufacturers. This guarantees consistency in material properties and the highest quality.
Your benefits at a glance
- Use of high-quality granulates to ensure the best quality for your products
- Use of our own material mixtures with a wide range of effective properties
- Processing of all common thermoplastics
Transparent materials
from BWF Profiles
BWF Profiles uses the following materials in extrusion as transparent materials and as a basis for colouring:
PMMA PMMA | PMMA impact resistant PMMA impact resistant | Polycarbonate Polycarbonate | |
Density g/cm³ | PMMA 1,18 | PMMA impact resistant 1,16 - 1,18 | Polycarbonate 1,2 |
UV-resistance | PMMA very good | PMMA impact resistant good | Polycarbonate good |
Temperature resistance | PMMA good | PMMA impact resistant good | Polycarbonate very good |
Light transmission | PMMA very good | PMMA impact resistant good | Polycarbonate very good |
Impact resistance | PMMA average | PMMA impact resistant good | Polycarbonate very good |
Scratch resistance | PMMA very good | PMMA impact resistant very good | Polycarbonate average |
Processing | PMMA good | PMMA impact resistant very good | Polycarbonate very good |
Surface | PMMA shiny | PMMA impact resistant slightly matt | Polycarbonate shiny |
Detailed material properties of our transparent materials can be found in our raw material information sheets:
Light-diffusing, forward-diffusing and light-reflecting materials
from BWF Profiles
BWF Profiles uses optimised and self-produced material developments and special colours for dispersal, conduction and reflection of light:
Acryl-Satiné Acryl-Satiné | Satiné-Blend Satiné-Blend | PMMA BWF colourLED® PMMA BWF colourLED® | PC BWF colourLED® PC BWF colourLED® | |
Density g/cm³ | Acryl-Satiné 1,16 - 1,18 | Satiné-Blend 1,2 | PMMA BWF colourLED® 1,18 | PC BWF colourLED® 1,2 |
UV-resistance | Acryl-Satiné very good | Satiné-Blend average | PMMA BWF colourLED® very good | PC BWF colourLED® average |
Temperature resistance | Acryl-Satiné good | Satiné-Blend very good | PMMA BWF colourLED® good | PC BWF colourLED® very good |
Impact resistance | Acryl-Satiné bad | Satiné-Blend very good | PMMA BWF colourLED® average to good | PC BWF colourLED® very good |
Scratch resistance | Acryl-Satiné very good | Satiné-Blend good | PMMA BWF colourLED® very good | PC BWF colourLED® good |
Processing | Acryl-Satiné good | Satiné-Blend very good | PMMA BWF colourLED® good | PC BWF colourLED® very good |
Surface | Acryl-Satiné matt textured | Satiné-Blend shiny structured | PMMA BWF colourLED® shiny smooth | PC BWF colourLED® shiny smooth |
Light diffusion | Acryl-Satiné very good | Satiné-Blend very good | PMMA BWF colourLED® excellent | PC BWF colourLED® excellent |
Transmission | Acryl-Satiné very good | Satiné-Blend good | PMMA BWF colourLED® very good | PC BWF colourLED® good |
An overview of the detailed properties of our materials can be found in the following raw material information sheets and the lighting properties:
Fire protection materials
by BWF Profiles
BWF Profiles uses numerous proprietary material compounds for applications with very strict fire protection requirements (e.g. for rail vehicles). We have already achieved unique successes in the development of these fire protection materials: For almost every common European and international standard, we have a suitable material that has been tested and certified in cooperation with accredited fire protection institutes.
BWF ecoRAIL®, a polycarbonate model that meets all well-known European fire protection standards and exhibits significantly better long-term stability than all standard flame-protection models, deserves special mention.
Materials for the thermoforming process
BWF Thermoforms processes all common thermoplastics
BWF REGRIND
Sustainable resource utilisation at BWF Profiles
BWF Profiles always ensures highly efficient resource recycling. This means our production waste is reprocessed into recyclable raw materials, which then flow back into the life cycles of new plastic products.
We are thereby not only reducing our production and material waste, but also making a valuable contribution to the sustainable production of plastic products. Thanks to our in-house reprocessing, we achieve an almost identical surface finish to that of virgin material.
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