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Moulding materials
News Release from: Victrex | Subject: PEEK polymer
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 August 2003
Industrial cleaners adopt polymer
helical gears
When a leading manufacturer of industrial cleaning equipment, wanted a material for the helical gear wheels in its spray heads, it chose a polymer because of its superior chemical resistance.
When Toftejorg A/S of Denmark, a leading manufacturer of industrial cleaning equipment, wanted a material for the helical gear wheels in their equipment's spray heads, they chose Victrex PEEK polymer because of its superior chemical resistance and high mechanical strength According to Andrew Ragan, Victrex Global Leader polymer was chosen because of its resistance to virtually all organic and inorganic solvents, and because it delivers the required high mechanical fatigue strength over a wide range of temperatures and pressures." The cleaning equipment is used in a variety of demanding environments including cargo ship containers for transporting crude oil, chemicals or solid bulk products
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The containers are cleaned after the cargo has been unloaded to prevent contamination of the new cargo.
Depending on the applied pressure and nozzle system used, the equipment can completely clean a tank within a few minutes.
The gear wheels are manufactured in a custom mold specially designed for co-injecting an unfilled PEEK polymer resin onto a pre-heated metal insert.
Using the polymer gives the wheels the ability to resist high mechanical loads and provide long-term resistance to both cleaning agents and aggressive residual media in the storage tanks.
And, because unfilled PEEK polymer complies with FDA regulations for repeated food contact, Toftejorg can also market its products to the food and beverage industry.
Victrex USA, a division of Victrex., is the sole manufacturer and supplier of PEEK polymer worldwide.
For more information on the properties and performance advantages of Victrex PEEK polymer, please call (800) Victrex or visit the Victrex website.
The PEEK trademark - for many years Victrex has been using the PEEK trademark to refer to its brand of Polyaryletherketone.
Victrex is the sole manufacturer and supplier of the PEEK brand polymer worldwide.
PEEK is a trademark of Victrex.
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