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Engineering Plastics - “Click” here to buy online
Engineering Plastics are an amazingly diverse family of materials that offer unquestioned advantages over the more traditional range of materials. As a group they provide a complete range of properties that can cover almost any application. Engineering Plastics have the enviable advantage of not only being incredibly versatile and robust but also have amazingly low friction and resistance to wear and abrasion in the most arduous and tough conditions.
Engineering Plastics are also much more economical to buy and are in a now seemingly limitless range of sizes and specifications. By being very easy and efficient to machine, Engineering Plastics can replace a damaged or worn component in a fraction of the time that traditional materials would and will get critical production machinery back into service much quicker, reducing valuable and expensive downtime to a minimum. In most instances, the new replacement component will now outperform and outlast the original item by many times which will continue to still further save time and money for the customer. Engineering Plastics have been proven to be able to still perform in the most extreme conditions on our planet and are now proving themselves in the most extreme conditions outside our planet.
Typical descriptions given to Engineering Plastics would be, very hard wearing, low friction, abrasion resistant, tough, robust, shock resistant, highly resistant to acid, chemical & heat effects, Excellent electrical insulators and exceptional value for money.
There are many names and trade names for Engineering Plastics which include Nylon (Polypenco), Acetal (Delrin), PTFE (Teflon), PVC, Polypropylene, Bakelite (Tufnol), Polyethylene (HDPE & UHMWPE). Did you know that Plastics derives its name from the original word “plasticity” because most are malleable and that around World War 2, the American Government considered 1 cents in plastic.
Please browse our website for more information about Direct Plastics and our range of Engineering Plastics then contact us on 0845 838 3318 to speak to one of our team or e-mail us on sales@directplastics.co.uk.
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