The difference between resin buttons and plastic buttons

  Strictly speaking, resin can be called plastic, plastic can also be called resin, so many people on the market when buying plastic snap button will also be called when buying resin snap button, for the simple reason!

The resin usually refers to the range of softening or melting after being heated, and tends to flow under external force when softened, and is a solid, semi-solid, and sometimes liquid organic polymer at room temperature. Broadly speaking, any polymer that can be used as a raw material for processing plastic products is called a resin. Plastic refers to a resin (or a monomer directly polymerized during processing) as a main component, and additives such as plasticizers, fillers, lubricants, colorants, etc., as auxiliary components, and materials that can be flow-formed during processing. . From this it can be seen that the resin is one of the raw materials for plastics and the plastic is the finished product of the resin. In other words, the unformed resin is plastic and it is plastic after molding.

The difference between resin snap fasteners and plastic snap fasteners is the difference in processing methods, rather than the difference between resin and plastic itself.

The resin snap button is formed by heating, cooling, solidifying, cutting, etc., a liquid substance through a special tube or the like, or by applying a liquid resin on the surface of the drum, after being solidified, it is press-formed, and then enters the subsequent processing; and the plastic Snap closures are made of solid materials, most of which are resin pellets that are injection molded through injection molding machines and molds.

Due to different processing methods, the finished products have different effects: the surface of the resin snap fasteners is smooth, the appearance is heavy, and the application is relatively wide; while the plastic snap fasteners can be varied due to the progress of the mold technology, and the application range of the snap fasteners is wider than the resin. !

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