PET chips are the fundamental raw material for several plastic industries that produce PET film, bottling solutions, fiber, and other products that have extensive use and applications all over. PET chips are the base of plastics and polymer.

PET may exist as Super Bright (actually transparent) or even bright chips. Then there are PET semi-dull chips used for making PET films. These films have a wide application including one of the most popular ones being – plastic bags. Another variety of PET chips is the bottle-grade chips that are used to make a variety of plastic jugs. The PET chips find a wide variety of applications including textiles. Chips used in the textile making are supplied in three grades – semi-dull, full-dull, and super bright grades.

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Each of these grades starting from the US fancy describe their physical characteristics such as whole, clean and well-dried. Further, the grading also depends on level of decay, rancidity, insect injury, foreign material, whole or split, presence of dust, mold, and gum among other things. The US Fancy is the category of shelled almonds that are free of all these foreign materials mentioned above.

In-shell almonds are almost similarly graded but with a slight difference. They are classified as US No. 1, US No. 1 Mixed, US No. 2, and US No. 2 mixed. They are all graded on varietal characteristics, absence of any loose or foreign material, clean, of uniform color, no decay, rancidity, not damaged by mold, insects, gum without any kind of discoloration. Additionally, there is tolerance that is built into different grades.

Nevertheless, all varieties of almonds need to be free of foreign material, not contain mold, or gum.

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Cashew being a natural produce is graded as per the size and its appearance.  They are classified in a wide variety of grades bringing out their class and quality. It is graded in a compound form – alphabet W and then a number. Cashew grades range from W-180 to W-450 which are full kernel grades that are sold and traded in the domestic as well as international markets.

W-180: Cashew grade for the largest in size and the King of Cashews. They are the most expensive and premium quality nuts.

W-210: Popularly known as the “Jumbo” size cashews.

W-240: The white attractive grade and are also reasonably priced.

W-320: The most widely available kernels around the world with competitive prices.

W-450: The smallest size nuts and the cheapest of all whole kernels.

While the “W’ in the grading refers to White Wholes, there are other grades like the SW – Scorched Whites that are mildly yellow. The W and SW grades are wholes and not broken into pieces.

Other grades are White Split (WS) which are kernels split into half, Large White Pieces (LWP) which are kernels split into four, Small White Pieces (SWP) which are essentially kernels split into six and finally Broken (BB) for very small pieces.

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