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GE Plastics Resin Offers Resistant Alternatives for Cell Phones

Amoi Electronics multimedia cell phone achieves design goals with help from a new grade of reinforced polycarbonate resin from GE Plastics.

Amoi Electronics designed its new M60 multimedia cell phone to deliver outstanding aesthetics, durability, and reliability, even under the roughest of handling conditions. The company achieved these design goals with help from a new grade of glass-fiber (GF) reinforced Lexan* EXL polycarbonate (PC) resin from GE-Plastics.

Amoi, a leading manufacturer in China's electronics industry, selected GE's Lexan EXL4419 resin to provide high stiffness in combination with excellent impact strength and good paintability for the cover of its M60 phone. Recently released alongside two other GF polycarbonates - GE's Lexan EXL4016 and EXL4019 resins - the grade Amoi selected has high-flow, improved fatigue resistance and superior impact strength over a wide temperature range, when compared to other commercially available GF reinforced PC resins.
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Tough GE Lexan* EXL Resin Delivers Excellent Aesthetics & Impact Strength for New Amoi Mobile Phone Design. Click on photo for high resolution image.

“The design of our M60 mobile phone presented several challenges that traditional materials could not meet,” said Letitia He, brand manager of Amoi Electronics Co., Ltd. “GE's new Lexan EXL resin gave us a high-technology materials solution that addressed all of our concerns and helped us to develop this innovative new phone product to address consumer demand.”

The fiercely competitive cellular phone market is driven by consumer demand for more functionality without an increase in cost. Formulated from glass-fiber reinforced PC copolymers, Lexan EXL resins support both trends by delivering a lightweight, impact-resistant alternative to conventional material solutions. More specifically, GE's Lexan EXL4016, Lexan EXL4019, and Lexan EXL4419 resin grades all deliver significantly higher levels of impact strength compared to conventional GF-reinforced polycarbonate materials at comparable stiffness levels.
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For consumers, these qualities translate into cell phones with striking aesthetics and reliable long-term performance. For manufacturers, GE's Lexan EXL resins offer improved design flexibility for battery covers, A and B cell phone covers, and frames.

GE's new family of GF polycarbonates delivers different degrees of stiffness, facilitating internal and full architectures. Their excellent flow performance also enables thin-wall construction, reduced cycle times, and improved yields.

Like all Lexan resin grades, Lexan EXL resins demonstrate excellent paintability, although their molded-in color capabilities also offer the potential elimination of emissions and production steps associated with painting processes. GE's new Lexan EXL4016 resin, EXL4019 resin, and EXL4419 resin products are available today.

* Lexan and LNP are trademarks of General Electric Company.

GE Plastics is a global supplier of plastic resins widely used in automotive, healthcare, consumer electronics, transportation, performance packaging, building & construction, telecommunications, and optical media applications. The company manufactures and compounds polycarbonate, ABS, SAN, ASA, PPE, PC/ABS, PBT and PEI resins, as well as the LNP* line of high-performance specialty compounds. GE Plastics, Specialty Film & Sheet manufactures high-performance Lexan* sheet and film products used in thousands of demanding applications worldwide. In addition, GE Plastics' dedicated Automotive organization is an experienced, world-wide competitor, offering leading plastics solutions for five key automotive segments: body panels and glazing; under the hood applications; component; structures and interiors; and lighting. As a Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Games, GE is the exclusive provider of a wide range of innovative products and services that are integral to successful Games.

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