In this issue, our friends at Solvay Advanced Polymers introduce a new line of wear-resistant plastics and provide complimentary plastics design articles for you to download freely through The Plastics Store™.

Also, they will be providing a webinar demonstrating practical guidelines to consider in metal-to-plastic conversion that you don't want to miss!

Warmest wishes,
The IDES Team

Discover More Performance

Solvay Advanced Polymers produces more plastics with more performance than any other company in the world. This gives design engineers worldwide more ways to solve top design challenges in aerospace, automotive, electronics, healthcare and other demanding industries.

The company’s extensive portfolio of high and ultra-performance polymers includes sulfone polymers, high-temperature and aesthetic polyamides, and their new SolvaSpire™ family of ultra polymers. These performance plastics deliver the highest levels of temperature, mechanical, and chemical performance available, providing characteristics comparable to—and even exceeding—those of metals, ceramics and other composite materials.

Thermoplastics fall into two main categories—amorphous and semi-crystalline. Amorphous polymers are inherently transparent materials and are predominantly unreinforced. Semi-crystalline polymers are opaque and typically compounded with additives such as glass, minerals and impact modifiers. Ultra polymers—which deliver some of the industry’s highest performances—can be either amorphous or semi-crystalline. They are typically defined by their exceptional combination of properties.

Whichever performance criteria are critical to you—from physical properties and processing, to appearance and agency approvals—Solvay Advanced Polymers offers plastics that deliver solutions.

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Hot Tips for Working with High Temperature Plastics

One of the most important issues for design engineers to consider is the ability of high-performance plastics to maintain mechanical properties under load at high temperatures. This technical bulletin, High-Temperature Plastics: Can They Really Take the Heat? probes common misconceptions and explains the importance of understanding whether a plastic is amorphous or semi-crystalline.

Load under continuous heat and in the presence of moisture or chemical atmosphere presents different challenges. These are considered here along with a discussion of the UL Relative Thermal Index in Why You Must Consider Continuous Heat and Atmosphere.

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Designing with Ultra-Performance Plastics:
Practical Guidelines for Metal-to-Plastic Conversion by K.C. Desai

Metal-to-plastic conversion continues to be a major trend to meet market demands for lower cost, lighter weight and better performance. Switching to plastics can present new challenges to design engineers.

Learn fundamental technical concepts to help you understand the importance of matching the right material with the right design to achieve mechanical performance.

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Solvay Advanced Polymers Launches Newly Enhanced, Full Line of High-Temperature, Wear-Resistant Plastics

Dedicated to friction and wear applications in both dry and lubricated environments, the product line leverages the industry’s most extensive portfolio of high- and ultra-performance polymers. The new formulations are specifically designed for wear-resistant applications requiring long-term use in temperatures between 120-265ºC and short-term use up to 280ºC.*

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Visit Solvay Plastics at the K-Show Stand Number 6D76

Solvay Plastics will be exhibiting at K’2007, the world's largest international fair for the plastics and rubber industry. The event will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, 24 October 2007 through 31 October 2007. We will be positioned at Stand Number 6D76.

This is a major event attracting a quarter of a million people from around the world. Our goal is to position Solvay Plastics as the company offering more plastics with more performance than any other company in the world.

Visit the official K2007 website

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