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What is a Sonic welded polyethylene floor?

April 26, 2017floor Polyethylene Sonic Welded

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What is a Sonic welded polyethylene floor?

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The sonic weld you are referring to is “ultrasonic welding”, which uses a piezoelectric crystal. This crystal, when electric currenet is supplied to it, changes in length at very rapid rates. This rapid expansion and contraction causes a weld-head, which can be made of various materials depending on what type of plastic or thickness you are welding, to pulsate and sort of hammer on the plastic at a high frequency. This high frequency, aka ultrasonics, causes the plastic molecules to get excited and share electrons between the two joining surfaces, thus forming your weld. Also, this process creates no heat on the actual weld head, and in turn it creates a superior bond when compared to heat weldng plastic material.