HIGH-PRESSURE DECORATIVE LAMINATES - SHEET MADE FROM THERMOSETTING RESINS - PART 1: CLASSIFICATION AND SPECIFICATIONS (ISO 4586-1:2004, IDT)
This Malaysian Standard establishes a classification system for high-pressure decorative laminated sheets according to their performance and main recommended fields of application, including materials with special characteristics, for example post formability or defined reaction to fire.
This Malaysian Standard also specifies requirements on the properties of the various types of laminate covered by this classification. For several of the properties, more than one test method for checking the requirements is given. These methods have been included to cover cases where the results given by alternative methods are approximately equivalent, where expensive equipment of different types is already in satisfactory use, or where experience is limited to only one of the methods in certain countries.
Requirements are specified for those types of material that are most generally used, but additional types may be added as required. The limit values specified apply to the most commonly used typ
