What is PET Plastic? | The Basics
Last modified on April 9th, 2021 at 1:28 pm
PET Plastics | An Introduction Before we discuss the ins and outs of PET plastic, you might be wondering what PET plastic stands for. PET is short for its chemical name: polyethylene terephthalate. PET is often abbreviated as PETE, PETG, APET, PETP or PET-P. Similarly to how tissue paper is commonly referred to as “Kleenex”, PET plastic may be referred to as it’s brand names Dacron (US), Terylene (UK), or Lavsan (Russia). PET has many properties that make it desirable…