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Because plastic is both lightweight and durable, it makes an ideal material for manufacturing cars, trucks, and other vehicles. Plastics make up ten percent of new vehicle’s total weight, and over 50 percent of their volume. Steering wheels, door liners, and stereo components are made of plastic, as are less visible parts, such as engine components.
In a first-of-its-kind event, a delegation of chief executives from some of the top American medical technology companies completed a successful series of meetings in Beijing last week with key Chinese government officials to strengthen the U.S. industry’s presence in this important market.
The term engineer dates back to 1325 when engineer meant one who operates engines. However, the practice of engineering can be traced back to examples such as the pyramids in Egypt and the Parthenon in Greece. Engineering is the profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, and technical knowledge to design and implement structures, machines, devices and processes that realize a desired objective.
We can often supply components in 1-2 weeks to meet critical scheduling demands.
As plastics become more and more the material of choice for machined plastic manifold blocks, tensile strength becomes a very important mechanical property design criteria.
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