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Aging of Safety Panes
Investigations, accomplished by the Association of German Machine Tool Factories (VDW) in
connection with the responsible employer's liability insurance association have pointed out
new aspects about the aging of polycarbonate as material for safety panes at machine tools.
Although polycarbonate worked very good for this purpose, these panes sometimes
substantially lose their ability to hold back flying around parts, especially under the influence
of cooling lubricants. At longer term, polycarbonate panes that are double-sided protected
against the effects of splinters, cooling lubricants, detergents, steams, etc. have hereby
shown the highest resistance.
In order to set you in the position to carry out your care business, we would like to point out
that safety panes made of polycarbonate are therefore to be examined regularly for their
retaining abilities and to be changed if necessary. Additionally, such safety panes are to be
classified as wearing parts in future. Beyond that, when you sale it, you are also obligated to
inform the possible buyer of such a machine accordingly about that.
Even with consideration of these new realizations polycarbonate will be further used as
material for safety panes in mechanical engineering due to its extremely high retaining ability.
Spare panes ready to be installed can therefore be ordered from us at any time. In order to
increase the necessary exchange intervals, we can also offer a retrofit kit for an additional
protection on the operator side if desired.
