Plastics Solutions Newsletter

January 2008

In This Issue:

Letter from the President
Tecanyl
Delrin® AF
Delrin® Acetal Homopolymer
Tecaform™ Acetal Copolymer

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Letter from the President

Rolling The Dice

Rolling the dice and hoping for the best might be ok in some situations, but when it comes to your plastic stock shapes needs, taking chances with quality and service can cost you or your company in very big ways.

Modern Plastics is an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company and we take quality issues very seriously here. Our team of continually trained personnel has an astounding track record, proven and measurable, with some of the most demanding "quality-critical" customers in the world. Our elaborate barcode system means that your material has gone through multiple inspection and verification processes and is assigned a unique control number. From this control number we can identify the manufacturer who produced the material, the lot & batch (resin) from which the material was produced and a host of other available data. Our materials are inspected at various stages of processing during the manufacturing operations, but additionally, the material is thoroughly checked at Modern Plastics for a variety of criteria such as verification of material type, color and grade, tolerance conformance, warpage, porosity, and visual defects.

Tecanyl

Modern Plastics offers Tecanyl MT is developed specifically for medical device applications. Designed for repeated exposure of up to 1000 autoclaving cycles at 134 degrees, it offers a great advantage due to its high resistance to gamma radiation, steam autoclaving and ethylene oxide sterilization. Applications are surgical instruments, instrument handles, implant trials (max.30 days tissue contact), sterilization trays and all components that have to desterilized or are subjected to radiation.

To see how Tecanyl performed in tests, download these PDFs:

Delrin® AF

Delrin® AF, offered in both rod and sheet forms by Modern Plastics, is a unique thermoplastic material suitable for use in environments in which low friction and long wear are important. Delrin® AF blend is a combination of Teflon fibers uniformly dispersed in Delrin® acetal resin. This combination produces a material that has strength, toughness, dimensional stability and good machinability, plus improved wear characteristics over unfilled Delrin®.

Download the Delrin® AF datasheet from Modern Plastics.

Notable properties:

Low moisture absorption
High-strength, stiffness
Ideal for machined parts where low friction and long life is important
Easy to machine
Excellent dimensional stability
Enhanced wear and friction properties over standard acetals

Delrin® Acetal Homopolymer

As an Elite Distributor for ENSINGER-HYDE, Modern Plastics offers Delrin® acetal homopolymer. Delrin® acetal represents a huge advance in engineering plastics technology, consistently measuring lower in stress and higher in quality than competitive materials. Delrin® acetal offers lower stress and better dimensional stability, which means less warping.

Download the Delrin® 150 fact sheet.

Delrin® acetal has the following properties:

Good dimensional stability
Good wear and abrasion properties; with its low coefficient of friction and hard and resilient surface, Delrin® acetal is the material of choice in many wear applications
High strength and stiffness properties
Low moisture absorption; Delrin® acetal can operate in wet environments with little effect on performance or dimensions
Excellent machinability
High fatigue endurance
Superior impact and creep resistance
Chemical resistance to fuels and solvents
Natural grade is FDA, NSF and USDA compliant

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DELRIN® is a registered trademark of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.

Tecaform™ Acetal Copolymer

Modern Plastics also carries Tecaform™ acetal copolymer, a semi-crystalline thermoplastic offering high strength, stiffness and toughness. Tecaform™ acetal coplymer is resistant to hot water, hydrocarbons and solvents, and it possesses good bearing and wear properties. It is available in natural and black grades. Tecaform™ acetal copolymer is commonly used as bushings, rollers, wear strips and other applications requiring a combination of strength, low moisture absorption, chemical resistance and dimensional stability.

Download the Tecaform™ acetal copolymer fact sheet.

Tecaform™ acetal copolymer has the following properties:

No centerline porosity
Low moisture absorption
Excellent machinability
Good combination of mechanical properties
Chemical resistance to fuels and solvents; Tecaform™ acetal copolymer is resistant to aqueous solutions with pH values ranging from 4 to 14
Good wear and abrasion properties
Natural grade is FDA, USDA, NSF and 3A Sanitary compliant
Good dimensional stability
Good property retention at elevated temperatures
Black grade is FDA compliant

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