Miscellaneous appliances apparently comprise very heterogeneous items such as entertainment appliances, radios, televisions, audio systems, video systems, VCRs, electronic video games, and so on, and business or office appliances such as PCs and other computers, printers, photocopiers, shredders…
In fact there are common points notably concerning housing, casing and so on where styrenics are often used.
Engineering and specialty polymers are also used but in limited quantities for specific functions justifying their costs.
Miscellaneous appliances include:
* Entertainment appliances: radios, televisions, audio systems, video systems, VCRs, electronic video games, and so on.
* Business or office appliances: PCs and other computers, printers, photocopiers, shredders
Despite their apparent heterogeneity these various appliances have several points of similarity:
* Aesthetics and mar resistance
* Impact resistance
* Dimensional stability
* Durability
* Fire behaviour for the large parts