Dow STYRON™ 487 High-Impact Polystyrene Resin
Subcategory: Polystyrene; Thermoplastic
Material Notes: STYRON™ 487 is a high-impact polystyrene with an excellent balance of flow, toughness, stiffness and heat resistance. It has excellent deep draw characteristics and is appropriate for extrusion applications where stiffness and toughness combined with high contact clarity and trim-ability are important. STYRON™ 487 can also be used in injection molding situations.
Main Characteristics - Heat resistance
- Toughness
- Stiffness
- Complies with U.S. FDA 21 CFR 177.1640
Applications - Packaging/Disposables
- Appliances
- Housewares
- Extrusion
- Thermoforming
- Injection Molding
Information provided by Dow
Available Properties |
- Specific Gravity
- Linear Mold Shrinkage
- Melt Flow
- Hardness, Rockwell R
- Tensile Strength, Ultimate
- Tensile Strength, Yield
- Elongation at Break
- Tensile Modulus
- Flexural Modulus
- Flexural Strength
- Gardner Impact @ 23°C
- Izod Impact, Notched
- Deflection Temperature at 0.46 MPa (66 psi)
- Deflection Temperature at 1.8 MPa (264 psi)
- Vicat Softening Point
- Flammability, UL94
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