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Plastic material with the strength of aluminum

29.10.2021

LG Chem has begun supplying a plastic material to replace aluminum in the manufacture of solar panel frames. Thus, the company intends to enter a new market for itself and promises to solve a lot of problems in solar energy. For example, lightweight panels will reduce the cost of transportation and installation, as well as allow solar farms to be deployed on rooftops that do not have the safety margin to support modern panels.

The plastic material LG Chem LUPOY EU5201 for frames of photopanels is based on polycarbonate. It is noteworthy that for the manufacture of material for frames, you can use polycarbonate chips obtained after the disposal of appropriate building materials.

Moreover, the company promises to develop a technology to collect and recycle plastic solar panel frames for recycling. This is a well-known problem of renewable energy - the impossibility or economic inexpediency of processing photo panels and wind turbine blades. If LG Chem solves this problem for the proposed material, then "green" energy will come a little closer to its ideal of being completely environmentally friendly.

In addition to high strength - like aluminum - the new plastic material is twice as light as aluminum, has a low coefficient of thermal expansion, is fireproof and resistant to ultraviolet, temperature and other climatic influences, which guarantees a long service life of plastic frames without changing the shape and quality of the material. LG Chem is so confident in the new plastic's superior properties that it hopes to pave the way for it into the field of mechanical engineering, for the manufacture of car body parts.

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