What is PCTG? What is TRITAN? Are the two materials the same?

Today's article is not only to popularize the knowledge of materials, but also to let the editor who has been in the industry for many years re-learn the knowledge of materials.The reason for this is this. A customer asked the editor to provide the price of the mold and the unit price of the product, and the material used was PCTG.When I saw this material, I thought that it should be a kind of PC, and naturally it should be calculated according to the cost of PC.

But when the editor asked the price of PCTG on the material, the editor found that the price of this material is much higher than the price of PC.I asked the material supplier why the price of PCTG is so much higher than that of PC.As a result, the embarrassing thing came. The material supplier said that PCTG was not PC, but TRITAN, so the price was higher. Sowhat is PCTG? What is TRITAN?

The editor was skeptical after hearing it, so I asked the engineer in the engineering department of my factory, and the answer was the same.The editor still had doubts, so I searched for the answer online, and the answer I got also made the editor even more confused.Because the answer to the first item is that PCTG is not TRITAN, it is said that the materials are not the same, PCTG is engineering plastics, so the editor continued to look for it, until the editor found a reply from the material factory, then I understood the difference between the two.

Both PCTG and TRITAN are copolyesters. Strictly speaking, PCTG is an abbreviation for material properties.TRITAN is a trademark application made by Eastman Company of the United States for its food-grade high temperature resistant PCTG material, which means that TRITAN is a material brand and not a material abbreviation.

If you still don’t understand this, let me give you an example: Company A is Eastman, Company B and Company C are other companies, TRITAN produced by Company A is PCTG, and PCTG produced by Company B and C is not necessarily TRITAN.PCTG material includes food grade and industrial grade, then in food grade, we can think that PCTG is consistent with TRITAN.

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