Nylon & Acetal Shapes

Semi-Finished Plastics
Ensinger offers high quality semi-finished products made of over 100 different plastics. Besides all standard thermoplastics, Ensinger develops, and extrudes, a multitude of special materials according to customers' demands. Rods, sheets, and tubes are offered in a range of small dimensional increments, and with special properties to meet your requirements. Their products are manufactured by several different process techniques, which include plastic extrusion, plastic compression molding, and plastic calendering, for a wide variety of high performance, engineering, and industrial base polymers, in addition to having the ability to cast plastic sheets, plastic tubes, and plastic rods from nylon. These machinable types of plastic are used as starting products for manufacturing precision finished parts. Furthermore, their customers can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that Ensinger’s products are fully compliant with stringent quality standards.

For more information, contact Donna Hancher, Ensinger, 365 Meadowlands Blvd., Washington, PA 15301, 800-243-3221/856-227-0500, Fax: 724-746-9209, E-mail: esales@ensingerusa.com, Web: www.ensingerplastics.com.

Nylon Profiles
Petro Extrusion Technologies, Inc. (PET), extrudes custom and stock nylon shapes, in FDA, heat-stabilized and MDS filled grades of Nylon 6 and Nylon 12.

Semi-rigid or flexible grades are available for most custom shapes. Profiles can be made in natural, standard or custom colors as required. Petro also offers custom cut to length capabilities.

MDS modified Nyla-Glide GR profiles are best suited to protect conveyor rails, beds and products from sliding surface friction. They are also excellent as striker plates and liners, these profiles require no lubrication to lessen friction.

PET can also custom extrude profiles based on customer drawings.

For more information, contact Mike Patterson, Petro Extrusion Technologies, Inc., 205B Hal lock Ave., Middlesex, NJ 08846, 800-229-3338/ 908-789- 3338, Fax: 908-789-0434, E-mail: sales@petroextrusions.com, Web: www.petroextrusions.com.

Seven Day Lead Times
Nylatech, Inc. can provide 2” and larger tubes in 52” lengths with only a seven-day lead time. If you need large diameter nylon tubes, Nylatech can meet your needs.

Their standard size tubular bar is offered in 1 3/4" OD to 24" OD in 52" lengths, and 11" OD through 40" OD in 13" or 26" lengths.

Their full line manufacturing capabilities allow for the production of all your stock shape needs including tubular bar, rod, and plate stock. They also produce semi-finished and finished custom cast components for increased savings, and quick turnarounds. Nylatech are specialists in manufacturing cast nylon 6, and 6/12 as rod, sheet, and tubular bar as well as finished or semi-finished custom cast components. Available in a variety of grades including Nylatech® Oil, PVM, SL, and Nythane™, these materials offer a range of properties from self-lubricating with a low coefficient of friction to increased impact resistance.

For more information, contact Calvin Petersen, Nylatech, Inc., P.O. Box 455, Everson, WA 98247, 800-506-9566/360-966-2838, Fax: 360-966-2838, E-mail: info@ nylatech.com, Web: www.nylatech.com.

Blue Acetal Copolymer
Roechling Industrial Gastonia stands for innovation in plastics, and to provide customers with state-of-the-art materials that meet the highest standards in the industry, they continually invest in new, innovative, and quality products and manufacturing technologies.

Sustarin® C (acetal copolymer) FDA Blue is now available from stock in North America; stock items include 4'x10' sheets in thicknesses of 1/2"-2" and 2'x4' sheets in thicknesses of 2"-4", with additional thicknesses up to 5" available on request; rods are stocked in various diameters from 3/4"-7", with additional diameters available, up to 8". Sustarin C FDA Blue features excellent strength and dimensional stabilities, ideal for high-wear environments like food processing, and is safe in food contact applications. Blue is often the preferred color for applications in the food processing industry, as potential contaminant pieces are more easily identified by visual detection than traditionally white and natural-colored materials. Sustarin C FDA Blue is produced in color number RAL 5002 by Roechling worldwide, providing global processors a consistent material color.

With locations in North Carolina, California and Ontario, Canada, Roechling conveniently ships from both coasts and Canada. With dedication to excellence, reliability, and pioneering, Roechling serves customers in many industries with continued competence and quality.

For more information, contact Alison Damery, Roechling Industrial Gastonia, 903 Gastonia Technology Pkwy., Dallas, NC 28034, 704-922-7814, Fax: 704-884-7206, E-mail: info@roechling-plastics.us, Web: www.roechling.com/us/industrial.

Tubing, Strip, Sheet & Rod
Hi-Tech Profiles (HTP) has been extruding over 30 polymers since 1988. Nylon and acetal have been the most common plastic that they have processed. As il-lustrated in the charts in this issue, they have nearly all capability with tubing, strip, sheet and rod.

Their most common nylon is the food grade Nylon 6,6. They have also extruded experimental Nylon 6/12. Their Nylon 11 and 12 has been used for fuse tubes and for Formula one race cars. The sheet line has made millions of feet of Nylon 6,6 and MDS/Nylon 6,6 that has been slit down to minimal width of 1/2". The most common thickness is 0.062", 0.093" and 0.125". They are installing a new sheet extruder that will have the capability to 70" wide.

Their most common Acetal is Dupont’s Delrin® 150. They also extrude several brands of copolymer. The bulk of their extrusion is in the form of bushing stock and hol¬low rod. Their extrude sheet varies in thicknesses from 0.030" to 0.125" and can be slit down. They have not made any Acetal Slab thus far, but they are excited with the new line. If the volumes are there, a thicker die will be purchased to maximize your needs.

For more information, contact William Kuhn, Hi-Tech Profiles, 401 Main St., Ashaway, RI 02804, 800-342-5495, Fax: 401-377-2423, E-mail: bkuhn@hitechprofiles.com, Web: www.hitechprofiles.com.