Cost and performance advantages

This is the era of electronics as they form the backbone of the modern lifestyle. Plastic is the enabler of electronics components because it improves miniaturisation, performance and cost.

An electronic component is any basic discrete device or physical entity in an electronic system used to affect electrons or  their  associated  fields. Electronic components are mostly industrial products and can be classified as passive, active, or electromechanic.The main types are passive (e.g. resistors and capacitors) and active (e.g. transistors and integrated circuits).

BCC Research says that the global market for passive and other interconnecting electronic components is expected to grow and reach $213.5 billion by 2017, growing by 9.4 percent between 2012 and 2017.

Resin consumption in electronic components is made up of a select group of engineering  thermoplastics led by nylon and thermoplastic  polyesters in volume. Based on value, however, higher performance resins such as polyphenylene sulfide, polyimides, polyketones, and liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) have become more significant factors in the market. Engineering thermoplastics dominate the moulded electronic component segment, of which connectors are the most important.

According to the Society of the Plastics Industry ApplicationIndustry (SPI), plastics offer durability and cost savings, parts consolidation and design flexibility, weatherproof ability and chemical resistance. Without the use of plastics, the product life of some major appliances would be reduced by nearly 50 percent. Major appliances would cost at least 25 percent more and use 30 percent more energy than similar products produced without plastics.

Designers’choice
Without plastics, most of the electronic products would not have been practical or economical. Designers of computers and business equipment choose plastics for their toughness, durability, ease of fabrication into complex shapes and their electrical insulation qualities.

Plastics are the building blocks and stepping-stones of electronic progress for decades: housing electronics, insulating components from all types of interference and protecting their most delicate and sensitive parts against even the tiniest speck of dust. In fact, microprocessor miniaturisation would have been impossible without the qualities and cost effectiveness of plastics.

The continuing miniaturisation of circuit boards and components such as computer chips increasingly relies on high-performance plastics to provide tough, dimensionally stable parts that can withstand both the stress of assembly and the strain of use. With plastics, electronic designers simultaneously can decrease size and increase the functionality of circuitry in consumer, business and industrial electronics.

Excellent properties help miniaturisation
DSM’s high performance polyamide Stanyl ?  ForTii? allows designers in the electronics industry to solve the challenge of creating connectors that do not warp after assembly to printed circuit boards (PCBs). This challenge is growing, owing to thinner, longer connectors and PCBs, especially when they are joined using high temperature reflow soldering. StanylForTii has a low and isotropic CLTE (coefficient of linear thermal expansion) that matches that of the PCBs.

StanylForTii also has high temperature resistance  and excellent mechanical performance, combined with very high stiffness. All flame retardant grades are usiMujer