{"id":63,"date":"2020-06-16T14:46:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2020-06-19T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T07:37:47","slug":"what-is-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/basics\/what-is-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"What is PET?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Density 1.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polyester film is a high-performance, crystal clear thermoplastic made from Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) resin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In comparison with other common plastic films, PET film has high tensile strength, excellent dimensional stability, low moisture absorption, and good retention of physical properties over a fairly wide temperature range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> It also has superior UV resistance and excellent electrical properties, and good optical clarity. Because of its higher price relative to PVC, PE, and PP film, it is generally considered a specialty film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PET Film &#8211; <strong>150\u00b0C<\/strong> (<strong>302\u00b0F<\/strong>) and as cold as <strong>-70\u00b0C<\/strong> (-<strong>94\u00b0F<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Properties\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>higher tensile strength<\/li><li>excellent dimensional stability<\/li><li>low moisture absorption<\/li><li>good retention of physical properties over a fairly wide temperature range<\/li><li>superior UV resistance<\/li><li>excellent electrical properties<\/li><li>good optical clarity<\/li><li>high gloss<\/li><li>good gas barrier<\/li><li>moderate moisture barrier<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Application<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>aroma barrier film (e.g. coffee and tobacco packaging)<\/li><li>release films<\/li><li>microwave<\/li><li>printed films<\/li><li>medical packaging<\/li><li>plastic wrap<\/li><li>tape backing<\/li><li>plastic cards<\/li><li>protective coatings such as solar<\/li><li>safety window films<\/li><li>transformer insulation films<\/li><li>flexible printed circuits<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Density 1.4 Polyester film is a high-performance, crystal clear thermoplastic made from Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) resin. In comparison with other common plastic films, PET film has high tensile&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,13,15],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basics","tag-film","tag-pet","tag-printing-layer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gsmcalculator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}