New Levels Of Performance
To provide product and design engineers with machining grade polymer materials with optimum performance levels, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products announced their Extreme Materials™ line of engineering plastic shapes. Their new product technology enhances the performance of standard materials beyond their typical capabilities.

The first products announced as part of the Quadrant Extreme Materials program are two bearing-grade polymer stock shapes:

Techtron® HPV: to the basic capabilities of polyphenylene-sulfide (PPS), high heat resistance, a broad range of chemical resistance, excellent dimensional stability, excellent wear resistance and a low coefficient of friction have been added.

Ketron® HPV: to the basic capabilities of poly-etheretherketone (PEEK), very high heat resistance, high strength and stiffness, good chemical resistance, an excellent combination of low friction, low wear, high LPV and low mating-part wear have been added.

Quadrant’s development team is currently working on extending the performance capabilities of other polymers, including polyamide-imide (PAI), fluoropolymer (PTFE), and polyethylene-terephthalate (PET). The material and processing technologies that allowed Quadrant to develop Techtron HPV and Ketron HPV have also been applied to many other materials they manufacture. QEPP offers its Extreme Materials, as well as its standard lines of plastic stock shapes, through its world-wide operations, technical support centers and authorized distributors.

For more information, contact Kress Schwartz, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products, 2120 Fairmont Avenue, P.O. Box 14235, Reading, PA 19612, 800-366-0310, Fax: 800-366-0301, E-mail: kress.schwartz@qplas.com, Web: www.quadrantepp.com.