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Bakelite® molding compounds can be used in a diverse field of applications from household appliances to automobiles and offer the following benefits:

• Dimensional stability
• High surface hardness and strength
• Very low flammability
• Minimal cold flow
• Superb electrical features, and
• High temperature stability

Sustainable alternative to engineering plastics and metals

Bakelite® engineering thermosets make it possible to design lightweight complex parts that require precision and performance.

These parts can be a lower cost solution than those made of die-cast metal, steel and engineering thermoplastics. Bakelite's thermoset molding compounds are utilized when there is a need for good electrical insulating properties and high heat resistance, rigidity, surface hardness, high elastic modulus and good solvent resistance. Even if the recommended operating temperature range is temporarily exceeded, dimensional stability will be maintained. The specific, customized properties of these materials make them an obvious choice to replace existing metal and engineering thermoplastic applications.

Thanks to their range of properties, Bakelite® phenol, epoxy and polyester molding compounds are utilized in electrical engineering and electronics. These industries rely on these innovative products for electrically demanding moldings requiring high quality, thermally-resistant functional elements with high mechanical strength. These compounds exhibit a combination of:

• Good electrical insulating properties
• High heat resistance
• Rigidity, 
• Surface hardness, 
• High elastic modulus
• Good solvent resistance

For many decades, Bakelite® molding compounds have been used with great success in manufacturing commutators and slip ring elements.  The experience gained over this period and trust-based teamwork with processors and final users of Bakelite® molding compounds have contributed to the unbroken continued development in this field.

The increasing capacities of electric motors coupled with unchanged or even more compact physical dimensions lead to greater thermal and mechanical stresses on the insulating molding compound int the commutator.  Moreover, such motors are expected to offer even lengthier service lives despite the increased rotational speeds and more compact physical dimensions.

The Bakelite product line – offering melamine-phenol and phenolic molding compounds – is in line with these strict requirements and offers a wide range of products for all common types of commutators.

Molding compounds based on Bakelite® resins can be easily shaped into an infinite variety of contours and forms and can be modified in various ways to provide added dimensional stability, flame resistance, electrical conductivity or slip resistance. From stove fittings to housings for domestic appliances, Bakelite® thermoset molding compounds are utilized when there must be a combination of: 

• Good electrical insulating properties and high heat resistance
• Rigidity
• Surface hardness
• High elastic modulus
• Good solvent resistance

Even if the recommended operating temperature range is temporarily exceeded, dimensional stability of these compounds will be maintained. Bakelite customer service and application research, as well as our worldwide distribution network means you have a reliable experienced raw material supplier. Our technical experts can help customers choose the optimal product for their manufacturing  process requirements and performance needs.

Learn more about the vision, products and history of Bakelite Synthetics on our website

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