Graphite powder in the plastics industry

Graphite powder has many uses in industrial production, the graphite powder produced by the Franli company will be used to add to plastic materials, it can increase and improve the performance of engineering plastics, extend the service life of engineering plastics. Of course, graphite powder will also be used in many industrial production fields, with excellent performance,  good process-ability and many other advantages, widely used in transportation, construction, home appliances, electronics, machinery, aerospace and other fields, effectively expanding the market scope. However, the application effect of graphite powder in engineering plastics is particularly significant.

The effect of graphite powder on plastics

One of application is used in plastics regarding graphite powder. It can show its excellent features.

(1) Abrasion resistance: The role of graphite powder in engineering plastics is very important, it can improve the high temperature, low temperature, corrosion resistance, wear resistance of plastics. Plastics with graphite powder have excellent heat and cold resistance, excellent mechanical properties in a wide temperature range, and are suitable for use as structural materials; Good corrosion resistance, less affected by the environment, good durability; Compared with metal materials, it is easy to process and has high production efficiency. And can simplify the procedure, save costs, have good dimensional stability and electrical insulation, high specific strength, and have outstanding friction reduction, wear resistance, which also has a part of the role of graphite powder in engineering plastics.

(2) Thermal conductivity: Composite materials are usually used to make thermal interface materials to solve the problem of heat dissipation of electronic devices. Graphite powder not only plays an important role in electrical conductivity, but also shows great application prospects in the development of polymer composites with high thermal conductivity. After adding graphite powder, plastics can be applied to LED lamp heat dissipation parts, automotive heat dissipation parts, electronic and electrical heat dissipation shells and other fields, replacing some metal aluminum and other commonly used heat dissipation materials.

Other applications of graphite powder

Besides plastics, graphite can be used into the following materials.

(1) Lubrication materials: often used as lubricants in the machinery industry. Lubricating oil often cannot be used under high-speed, high-temperature, high-pressure conditions.

(2) Thermal conductive materials: it has excellent properties of high temperature resistance and high thermal conductivity, and is mainly used in the metallurgical industry to manufacture graphite crucibles, and graphite is commonly used as a protective agent for steel ingots in steelmaking, and the lining of metallurgical furnaces.

(3) Steelmaking recarburizer: graphite powder can quickly enter the inside of molten steel, so that the recarburisifier for steelmaking is scattered inside the molten steel, and will not cause temperature loss of molten steel, so as to achieve stable and efficient carbonization at the same time, save the consumption of alloys used in the resteelmaking process, and reduce the cost of steelmaking.

Why plastics with graphite powder is superior to ordinary plastics? The processed engineering plastics are different from ordinary plastics and contain a certain amount of graphite powder. Ordinary plastics are not resistant to high temperature, not wear-resistant, not corrosion-resistant, etc., all, in the production of engineering plastics need to use graphite powder, to change, increase the performance of plastic products, after graphite powder modified plastic performance is more excellent, can bring new markets. It has good high temperature resistance, high mechanical strength, can be used for a long time in harsh chemical and physical environments, and can replace metal as an engineering structural material to reduce additional costs.