{"id":1301,"date":"2019-09-25T14:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2023-08-09T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T12:56:14","slug":"abs-material-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/material-of-the-month\/abs-material-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"ABS – Looking Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABS is our featured material this month.\u00a0 One of the most common items made from it is the LEGO<\/a> brick, with 400 billion produced since 1958!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene is a blend of three polymers that benefits from each of its parent materials.\u00a0 But the main reason we recommend ABS as a material selection to clients is that it ticks quite a few boxes.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to mould, has good mechanical strength and it looks good!<\/span><\/p>\n

VERSATILE<\/span><\/h2>\n

The chances are that you are touching ABS right now! Computer mice and keyboards are just a couple of the items that we have made from it.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the ABS projects we\u2019re most proud of is the casing for the first payment terminal<\/a> we produced for Racal Transcom, exhibited in London\u2019s Science Museum<\/a>.\u00a0 This EFT machine enabled financial transactions to be made without the need for cash or cheque to change hands, quite ground-breaking in its day and it dramatically reduced the number of physical transactions, so improved the speed and efficiency of customers entering the museum.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Electronic<\/span><\/h3>\n

SAFETY FIRST<\/span><\/h2>\n

We also used this material selection for a snowboarding helmet, as well as looking pretty cool, it also certainly needed to pass all the necessary certification tests. This\u00a0goes to show that with the right choice of material, trials and testing can be completed successfully.<\/p>\n

PROS<\/h2>\n