Polyester

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Polyester is any of a certain group of widely used plastics materials. One of the most important polyesters, polyethylene terepthalate (PET), can be spun into fiber, extruded (pushed through an opening) to make film, or combined with other materials and molded into plastic parts. PET is a thermoplastic

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