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Plastic Requirements for Product Safety Compliance
By Mike Campi, Senior Product Safety Engineer for Elliott Laboratories
The usage of plastics in the product manufacturing process has
become so commonplace that it has essentially eliminated the usage of
many other traditional manufacturing materials. Today, everything
from your laptop to your coffee maker to your home stereo are made
with extensive use of various types of durable and moderately
inexpensive plastics. However, when manufacturers begin to plan for
compliance with their applicable Product Safety requirements, there
are a number of factors that need to be taken into consideration with
regard to the usage of plastics.
There are three categories of plastic materials that are
considered in the safety standards. The definition of these
categories follows;
1. Enclosures: The plastic materials used in enclosures must
meet the flammability, electrical and/or mechanical requirements.
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