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This video discusses each of the basic Formaspace work surfaces and their
application and a little bit about them.
For more detail on each of these work surfaces,
visit our website Formaspace.com
or our youtube channel and we have a lot more information out there.
Our first work surface
is
basic plastic laminate.
Plastic laminate comes in several colors.
It's typically laid over an engineered particle board substrate
within environmentally sensitive glue,
and you can get it in standard laminate, chemically resistant laminate,
or ESD laminate.
No matter which of those three options you choose,
we have three standard colors
which is a medium gloss black,
and medium gloss gray,
and medium gloss white.
But the great thing about laminate is you can choose
any color under the horizon -
we have wood grains,
bright colors,
we can match to whatever you currently have,
there's really a wide variety of options.
Our second group is woods and hardwoods, typically maple.
Maple is a great work surface for industrial environments - you can pound
away at it,
you can draw on it, you can do all kinds of things on it, it's even has a little bit
of chemical resistance for real light stuff like water and
other really uh... cleaners and things like that,
because it is a lacquered surface. And it's just great for longevity, it's a
beautiful surface, it's the surface that I'm sitting at right now.
You can do a lot with it: you can carve it into crazy shapes,
uh... so maple is a great work surface.
Our third group is our plastics,
starting with high-density polyethylene, or HDPE.
HDPE also comes in a variety of colors
uh... and a variety of textures so you can get smooth high gloss HDPE
You would typically only do that if you NEED to do that, because you have a very soft
product
or it could easily get lost it's very small and could get lost in a crack or crevice
becausehigh gloss HDPE
does scratch very easily
uh... many people consider to not be
the most attractive of products
so you typically would have a laboratory or an assembly operation that really requires
this high gloss
HDPE.
HDPE is great for
it's moderate chemical resistance and also the fact is moldable into a variety
of
seal-able containers and things like that
because it's so soft it can also be cut
into a variety of shapes and sizes and things like that.
We also offer a textured HDPE.
These come in white, gray, black and also an off-white khaki.
Textured HDPE is a little bit more attractive product.
It's a little bit rough so it's a little bit harder to write on it,
but it's also used in a variety of laboratory settings.
Next, and possibly most popular, phenolic resin. Phenolic is a great product
for a wide variety of laboratory applications
that have light to moderate duty uses in terms of chemicals and reagents, it is
uh...
fairly resistant to a wide variety
of chemicals. It does.. it's completely non-absorbent, somewhat flame resistant,
it's extremely chemically hard product
so it's a difficult product to cut
uh... but uh... but it's a great product overall for a wide variety of uses.
We have it in black and gray.
We typically put a small one-eighth inch round over
and it's a little bit thinner than other products uh... which is something that
you might want to know.
Next is our metals group, which we're going to use stainless as our base
to talk about metals. So Formaspace offers stainless steel which is a
very good looking product. It has an infinite design lifetime,
it's tough,
it can be radiused in terms of the edges to create what we call a marine edge
or a containment edge to contain chemicals, it's easy to clean (petrochemicals,
gasoline, oils, things like that)
and it doesn't harbor bacteria.
It's a great overall surface and it's also
completely environmentally sustainable. It has an infinite design lifetime
and at the end of it's design lifetime is 100% recyclable.
So that's stainless.
We also offer cold rolled steel and hot rolled steel for specialty applications,
as well as
galvanized steel
which is the little bit less expensive than stainless steel and as
good in industrial applications
and typically will not rust.
And finally,
we have our epoxy products.
And epoxy is
the kind of ultimate, typical laboratory-grade product.
It comes in a variety of colors,
it's very heavy, dimensionally stable, heat resistant,
and chemically resistant to a wide variety of common laboratory chemicals.
Epoxy comes in black,
gray,
khaki,
a
light blue,
forest green,
a light tan,
and finally, and great for
all types of highly clean laboratory applications, now in alpine
white.
So that is,
pretty much sums up
our
work surfaces
and again for any further details, to learn more about the specific chemical
resistance properties,electric uh... electrostatic resistance,
the manufacturing process,
what differentiates these things, each of these surfaces,
from maybe competitor products you can check out the detailed videos at
Formaspace.com or on our youtube channel at RealFormaspace.