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Main Characteristics:
- Very good wear and abrasion resistance
- High impact strength, even at low temperatures (particularly PE-UHMW)
- Excellent chemical resistance
- Low density compared with other thermoplastics
- Low coefficient of friction
- Excellent release properties
- Very low water absorption
- Moderate mechanical strength, stiffness and creep resistance
- Very good electrical insulating and dielectric properties (except static dissipative grades)
- Excellent machinability
- Physiologically inert (several grades are suitable for food contact)
- Good resistance to high energy radiation (gamma- and X-rays)
- Not self-extinguishing (except TIVAR Burnguard)
Applications:
Gears, bearings, wear plates, support-, tension- and deflecting rollers, rope pulleys, chain sprockets, bumpers, scraper blades, piston rings and packings, seals, valves, hammerheads, conveyor screws, star wheels and bends, corner tracks, parcel chutes, pumps, filter plates, pickers, beater caps, linings for bunkers, silos, chutes and funnels for bulk materials, punching plates, cutting and chopping boards, . . .
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