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Moulding materials
News Release from: Victrex
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 December 2002
Extruding circular engineering polymer
mouldings
A specialist engineering plastics processor is producing engineering polymer circular extrusions, of between 600mm and 1200mm diameter with wall thickness up to 25mm x 19 mm.
Robix, the specialist engineering plastics processor, has developed a manufacturing technique to enable them to produce Victrex Peek polymer circular extrusions, of between 600mm and 1200mm diameter with wall thickness up to 25mm x 19 mm, from existing tooling Building on the proprietary Robix production technology, this unique system is capable of producing up to 3m diameter extrusions with even larger cross sections
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The product is produced as a continuous 'spiral' and sections are then cut and joined to complete the circle by melt bonding.
The joint integrity of the completed 'circle' has been verified by X-Ray photography.
The product can then be shipped to end users for finish machining.
The process has been used successfully with all standard viscosity Victrex Peek polymer grades (filled and unfilled) and can be used for short or long production runs.
Other engineering polymers may also be extruded by this method.
This new production technique offers flexibility which was hitherto unavailable; previous solutions would have been to machine parts from large section billets, or stock-shape tubes, with high material wastage and machining costs.
Victrex, which has its sales, technical and production headquarters at Thornton Cleveleys in Lancashire, UK, had a turnover of more than GBP 72m in the last financial year.
The company exports 97 percent of its Peek polymer output to OEMs in the automotive, industrial, medical, food and electronics market sectors in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
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