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Advantages: Overview
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Performance Data: Overview
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Performance Data: Overview
Invision resins are engineered to offer consistent, high quality results to meet today’s requirements for thermoplastic film and sheet materials. Our products are quickly becoming the material of choice in the thermoforming, profile extrusion and molding industries, satisfying exact OEM specification across multiple market segments. Simply put Invision technology yields lower processing costs typically associated with other surface technologies. In addition, our material allows for better processability than traditional materials, while maintaining brilliant surface aesthetics.
Unlike paint and paintfilm, the technology behind Invision also prevents the material from chipping and cracking in extremely low temperatures. Invision’s ductility at sub-zero temperatures eliminates the severe fragmentation seen in rivaled materials as well as painted plastic’s impact tests.
For example, the Gravelometer is designed to evaluate the resistance of surface coatings to chipping caused by the impacts of gravel or other flying objects. The primary usage of this test is to simulate the effects of the impact of gravel or other debris on parts. A test sample is mounted in the back of the Gravelometer, and air pressure is used to project 1 pint (approximately 300 pieces) of gravel at the sample. The sample is then removed and gently wiped off with a clean cloth. Tape is then applied to the entire tested surface. Removal of the tape then pulls off any loose fragments of the coating. The appearance of the tested sample is then compared to standard transparencies to determine the chipping ratings. Visual examination can also be used to describe where in the coating/substrate system that the failure has been achieved.
Gravelometer
Invision® 3566 Vs Acrylic/ABS, Painted TPO & Fluoro-Acrylic Film
- Gravelometer measures the resistance of a decorative surface to be damaged by high velocity impingement of gravel at various angles and temperatures.
- A visual damage rating is applied based on erosion of the decorative surface at each incremental increase in the number of pints of gravel impacted on the surface.
- 1 – 10 rating scale, 10 = Best Resistance to Visual Damage.
| Number of Pints of Gravel Impacted on the Surface of the Material | ||||||||
| Material Type | 12 | 15 | 20 | 35 | 50 | 56 | 70 | 100 |
| Painted Black fascia grade TPO without Mask | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Painted White fascia grade TPO without Mask | -- | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Grey Paint Film over TPO without 3M Clear Mask | -- | -- | 8/9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7/8 | 7/8 |
| White Paint Film over TPO without 3M Clear Mask | -- | -- | 8/9 | 8 | 7/8 | 7/8 | 7 | 7 |
| Grey Paint Film over TPO with 3M Clear Mask | -- | -- | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| White Paint Film over TPO with 3M Clear Mask | -- | -- | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Invision 3566 Black without Mask | -- | -- | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8/9 | 8 |
| Invision 3566 White without Mask | -- | -- | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8/9 | 8 |
| - Visual is Satisfactory | - Visual is Marginal | - Failure |
90 degree impact at -30° C. Acrylic/ABS test specimin cracked so no assessment made.
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Invision 3566 (no mask)
9 Rating After 35 Pints 
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Painted TPO (no mask)
6 Rating After 15 Pints 
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