February Material of the Month – UHMW/PE.Posted by spiratex on February 26th, 2020 Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, or UHMW/PE, is one of the most versatile and efficient polyethylene plastics manufactured today. UHMW/PE provides a number of unique qualities such as:
The applications for UHMW/PE are amazingly diverse and its use has become prevalent in numerous industries including:
Unlike many common thermoplastics, UHMW/PE can’t be injection molded. The Spiratex Company has developed its own proprietary RAM extrusion process that uses significant heat and pressure to extrude our ULTREXTM UHMW/PE into any shape and size required for your end use. This process provides industry leading dimensional quality and surface finish that sets our products above the rest. Our team can provide considerable expertise to customer engineers for design, dimension or tolerance issues and our ULTREXTM UHMW/PE brand products can be manufactured with a wide variety of additives and attributes to match your specific requirements. UHWM/PE is easily fabricated using traditional methods such as turning, milling or drilling. Our in-house Engineering, Extrusion and Fabrication teams can provide a single source solution for your project.
Contact our Sales team today and let The Spiratex Company change the shape of plastics with your custom UHMW/PE extrusion! For More Info:- UHMW Polyethylene Like it? Share it! More by this author |