Archive: Dec 2019

Profile Team Tackles Complex Encapsulation

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Once again, the team at Profile Plastics has risen to the challenge for a customer. Drawing on our experience in extruding profiles that include a variety of embedded components, we recently completed the development of a profile which integrates shaped wire.
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Acrylic Optical Fiber Successfully Processed

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Profile Plastics has added acrylic optical fiber to its list of components that can be encapsulated in its extrusions. This work was a particular challenge given that our customer needed the fiber extruded inside a material with processing temperatures 100F in excess of the melting temperature of the fiber, and 200F above the maximum service temperature of the fiber while preserving the optical properties.
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