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Things are heating up with Duratron® U1000 PEI.
My combination of high strength and rigidity at elevated temperatures with long-term heat resistance makes me best suited for #medical reusable applications. Don’t forget, I’m flame resistant and FDA compliant.
Some thoughts on Moulding vs Machining Plastics & Annealing
Did you know that Machining offers greater design flexibility, tighter tolerance allowances, often lower costs, and ease of use compared to moulding? Also machined plastic parts have less internal stress, faster time to market, and allow for last minute design changes.
Challenge in Food & Bevarage Packaging for Ketron® HPV PEEK (Bearing Grade)
Trends in consumer product variety pose great challenges to the packaging industry, e.g. lower batch sizes on the one hand and an increase of product and format changes on the other are required. Packaging machines have to be extremely flexible, offer a broad bandwidth of formats and quick changes between formats.
MEET: TIVAR® H.O.T. - Can you tell what H.O.T. stands for in my name?
I last up to 10 times longer than standard UHMW in higher temperature environments and I meet with FDA guidelines. That makes me the perfect material of choice for baking, food processing & packaging, conveyor manufacturing, grain processing and many other major industries, Can you tell what H.O.T. stands for in my name?
Machining Tip
In addition to minimizing localized part heat-up, coolants prolong tool life. HOWEVER there are Dangers .....