Recently, postforming laminates are becoming more and more interesting in the production of furniture, particularly kitchen units, because these laminates could bend by additional heating to a relatively small radius.
By this process, it is possible to make round-edged furniture specially suitable for contemporary kitchen, sanitary, hospital, school, and similar furniture.
So far, the production of such laminates was based on adding to melamine resins a large quantity of softeners (plasticizers) which deteriorated the surface.
The article shows the process by which all good commercial properties of plastic laminates have been preserved, and additional bending made possible. It is achieved by adding a small quantity of acetoguanamine and diethylene glycol to melamine resins.
Production and usage of such synthetic resins are described.
