Specialty Fabricated Products
Apical Polyimide Film Division
Custom high performance polymer Films
APICAL® Polyimide Film Is the Right Choice.
APICAL® Polyimide Film is used in a wide range of unusual applications due to its unique high and low operating temperature capability. These applications include: bar code labels, speaker coils, spiral wrapped tubing, gaskets and diaphragms, aircraft shim stock, space blankets, nuclear linear accelerator insulation, carrier and transport belts, and sensors. There is no end to the new applications that are found every day for this exceptional high performance polymer film!
The primary film properties that make APICAL® Polyimide the material of choice in high end applications include:
- No melt point, and will not sustain or propagate flame
(UL” 94-VO rating). - Can be used in applications from -269°C to 400°C while still maintaining mechanical and electrical integrity.
- Excellent mechanical properties, high abrasion and cut-through resistance.
- Excellent chemical resistance to most acids, solvents, lubricants, and hydrocarbons. (It is, however, susceptible to degradation by strong bases).
- Excellent electrical properties (high dielectric strength, good dielectric constant, and low dissipation factor).
- High thermal dimensional stability, low shrinkage at elevated temperatures to 400°C.
- Good adhesion to a wide range of adhesive systems (e.g. silicons, acrylics, polyimides, FEP, PTFE, PFA, epoxies and modified epoxies, phenolics).
- High radiation resistance.
- Excellent flexural durability.
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Applications
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Here's your chance to ask Kaneka Engineers questions about APICAL® Polyimide Film and its applications. Use it as an open exchange of ideas and questions about polyimide applications, challenges, and innovations.
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Custom high performance polymer Films
APICAL® Polyimide Film Is the Right Choice.
APICAL® Polyimide Film is used in a wide range of unusual applications due to its unique high and low operating temperature capability. These applications include: bar code labels, speaker coils, spiral wrapped tubing, gaskets and diaphragms, aircraft shim stock, space blankets, nuclear linear accelerator insulation, carrier and transport belts, and sensors. There is no end to the new applications that are found every day for this exceptional high performance polymer film!
The primary film properties that make APICAL® Polyimide the material of choice in high end applications include:
- No melt point, and will not sustain or propagate flame (UL” 94-VO rating).
- Can be used in applications from -269°C to 400°C while still maintaining mechanical and electrical integrity.
- Excellent mechanical properties, high abrasion and cut-through resistance.
- Excellent chemical resistance to most acids, solvents, lubricants, and hydrocarbons. (It is, however, susceptible to degradation by strong bases).
- Excellent electrical properties (high dielectric strength, good dielectric constant, and low dissipation factor).
- High thermal dimensional stability, low shrinkage at elevated temperatures to 400°C.
- Good adhesion to a wide range of adhesive systems (e.g. silicons, acrylics, polyimides, FEP, PTFE, PFA, epoxies and modified epoxies, phenolics).
- High radiation resistance.
- Excellent flexural durability.
Downloads
- Technical Data Sheet - 50AV
- Technical Data Sheet - 75AV
- Technical Data Sheet - 100AV
- Technical Data Sheet - 200AV
- Technical Data Sheet - 300AV
- Technical Data Sheet - 500AV
Applications
Ask The Engineers
Here's your chance to ask Kaneka Engineers questions about APICAL® Polyimide Film and its applications. Use it as an open exchange of ideas and questions about polyimide applications, challenges, and innovations.
Email Us Your Questions
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Quality
Industries who depend upon APICAL® Polyimide film benefit not only from a carefully designed product, but from the process behind it as well. Unlike many film manufacturers, APICAL® Polyimide process technology is driven by quality not speed.
Performance
In spite of being lighter in weight than many of the materials it has replaced, the overall performance of APICAL® Polyimide surpasses them. Its high degree of dimensional stability allows it to be wrapped tightly for applications where space is a premium. It is tough, highly resistant to tearing, abrasion and puncture.
Technical Data
APICAL® Polyimide Films possess an excellent balance of physical, thermal, electrical, and chemical properties over a wide range of temperatures for flexible printed circuits, tape automated bonding, motor generator insulation, wire and cable insulation, pressure sensitive tape and other uses.