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unusual facts about polyester


Leo Braudy

He has acted in John Waters' Polyester (1981), and Robert Kramer's underground classic Ice (1970).


135 film

Ilford at one time made HP5 black-and-white film on a thin polyester base, which allowed 72 exposures in a single cassette.

All-dielectric self-supporting cable

The inner structure is wrapped with polyester tapes and encased in a pultruded glass reinforced plastic tube, which provides the structural strength for the cable.

Brunswick Street, Melbourne

In the 1980s, 3RRR established its studios in Victoria Street, off Brunswick Street, the Punters Club established itself as a significant live music venue, as did the Evelyn Hotel, and independent record shop PolyEster Records opened.

Compression molding

Materials that are typically manufactured through compression molding include: Polyester fiberglass resin systems (SMC/BMC), Torlon, Vespel, Poly(p-phenylene sulfide) (PPS), and many grades of PEEK.

DeWain Valentine

Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass (such as Diamond Column in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art), fiberglass and cast polyester resin sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects.

Dhirubhai Ambani

In an unauthorized biography of Dhirubhai Ambani, published in 1998 by Hamish McDonald with the title The Polyester Prince, all his political and business conquests are outlined.

Item Unique Identification

Metal tag with a permanent adhesive or durable polyester label are suitable for many environments but other marking items such as laser etch, dot peen, Metalphoto photosensitive anodized aluminum, chemical etch or ink jet can also be used for direct part Unique Identification.

John De Andrea

In documenta 5 in Kassel 1972, his work was represented with life-size pencil drawings of a nude young man and a nude young woman as well as a sculpture of polyester resin, manufactured with body castings, which represented a couple in the act of love-making.

Noche Crist

Working with acrylic paints on wooden cut-outs and transparent polyester resin small sculptures, Crist created images reminiscent of her childhood at her family's country estate, Ograda, near Ploesti.

Polyplex

With its headquarters in NOIDA, adjoining New Delhi the company has four PET Film manufacturing facilities–one in Khatima and one in Bajpur, in the state of Uttarakhand, India, one in Rayong province, Thailand, and one in Tekirdağ, Turkey (owned and operated by Polyplex (Thailand) Public Company Ltd. and Polyplex Europa Polyester Film Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. respectively, its wholly owned subsidiaries).

Sailcloth

PEN (Polyethylene naphthalate), commonly known by Honeywell's trade name "Pentex", is another kind of polyester fiber, which stretches only 40% as much as standard PET fibers, but about twice as much as Kevlar 29.

Solid

Polymers which have been around, and which are in current widespread use, include carbon-based polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, nylons, polyesters, acrylics, polyurethane, and polycarbonates, and silicon-based silicones.

Terephthalic acid

PTA Supplies have generally been tight in recent years and are expected to remain snug due to fast growing polyester expansion.

Polycyclohexylenedimethylene terephthalate a thermoplastic polyester formed from terephthalic acid

Thermal manikin

The exterior skin of the manikin may be made of fiberglass, polyester, carbon fiber, or other heat conducting materials, within which are temperature sensors in each measurement zone.


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