Nylon

Semi-crystalline polymer Nylon has goods general features and excellent quality/price rate. Using only high viscosity raw material for the extrusion of our Nylon 6 stock shapes grants a very high quality level: mechanical resistances as well as sliding properties are higher if compared with other low viscosity Nylons. Our unique annealing process grants dimensional stability and easy machining.

• Abrasion resistance: even in dusty and demanding environments, it’s one of the best engineering plastics.
• Toughness: high tensile stress and compressive strength. The shock resistance is good particularly for annealed material.
• Fatigue-proof: it maintains its features even under continuous stress.
• Self-lubricating: the friction coefficient is low and generally no lubrication is required for sliding applications.
• Weather and ageing resistance.
• It is resistant to alkali, inorganic compounds and solvents.
• Food contact approved. Food Certification EC 10/2011 – FDA.

• It is hygroscopic; it absorbs moisture which means that in time both its mechanical features and dimensions will change.
• When dry, it is hard and stiff and when moist it becomes more shock resistant and yielding.
• Machining is easy but automatic lathes should be avoided as the swarf is extremely elastic.
• The use in the electrical field is to be avoided because of the moisture content.

Thanks to its features and low price, it’s a popular material for “general purposes”. Widely used in the mechanical industry to produce:

• Gears.
• Cams.
• Pulleys.
• Anti-wear guides.

Polyamide obtained by the polymerisation of Hexamethylenediamine and Adipic acid. It is one of the oldest engineering plastics, having been created in the USA in 1930. Due to its origin it is widely used in the American and English markets. In comparison to PA6 it is more stiff and tougher but is also more brittle. It is advisable to use PA66 instead of Polyamide 6 when a higher stiffness is required to the detriment of resilience. It can be easily machined on automatic machine tools.

• Wear resistance: it is good even in demanding environments
• Self-lubricating: the friction coefficient is low and generally for sliding application it does not require lubricators
• Toughness: very high tensile stress and compressive strength. Its toughness is higher than that of Polyamide 6
• Machining on automatic machine tools is shown to be easy as the shavings break thanks to its higher toughness
• Ageing resistance and weatherproof.
• Natural colour

• It is hygroscopic, even if to a lesser extent than PA6.
• It absorbs moisture in time and consequently the mechanical features and the final dimensions will change.

• Mechanical: because it has a higher stiffness than PA6 it is used for mechanical applications when this feature is more important than that of shock resistance: suitable for gears, cams, pulleys, anti-wear guides, wheels and mechanical parts. Like Akulon GX, it machines very easily on automatic tools
• Food contact: in some cases it can be used in contact with food
• Electrical: use in the electrical field is to be avoided as the electrical features change with the moisture content
• Chemical: it is resistant to alkali, inorganic compounds and solvents

Copolymer of nylon with excellent mechanical features, it combines the good impact resistances of PA6 as well as the higher stiffness of PA66. For this reason it machines very well on automatic tools and on CNC centres. The U.V. stabilisation makes it light resistant and it is therefore suitable for outdoor applications.

• Wear resistance: good even in demanding environments
• Toughness: high tensile stress and compressive strength
• Self-lubricating: the friction coefficient is low and generally for sliding application it does not require lubricators
• U.V. resistance: particularly suitable for outdoor applications it withstands atmospheric agents and low temperatures very well
• Machining on automatic tools is easy thanks to the breaking of shavings during machining and to its higher stiffness
• Black colour

• It is hygroscopic (even if at lower extent than PA6) therefore the mechanical features and the dimensions will change consequently

• Mechanical: thanks to its higher stiffness compared to PA6 and its higher shock resistance compared to PA66, this material is increasingly being used in the mechanical field to produce gears, cams, pulleys, anti-wear guides, wheels and other components, notably for outdoor use. In the field of construction and earthmoving equipment Akulon GX can be found in guides, bearings and pulleys. it is particularly suitable for machining on automatic lathes
• Food contact: generally it is not used in contact with food
• Electrical: use in the electrical field is to be avoided as the electrical features change with the moisture content. It is sometimes used when its mechanical features are required
• Chemical: it is resistant to alkali, inorganic compounds and solvents

The only engineering plastic of natural origin (derived from castor oil), it is a polyamide which, unlike the other nylons, does not absorb humidity. It has all the good mechanical features of polyamides: tensile stress, compressive strength, wear resistance, etc. Moisture content does not influence its shock resistance. It has very good ageing and low temperature resistance.

• Tensile stress, compressive strength and shock resistance values stable in moist as well as dry environments.
• Wear resistance, very good even in dusty or demanding environments ageing and low temperature resistance.
• Self-lubricating.
• Low friction coefficient generally for sliding applications it does not require lubricators.
• It’s physiologically inert and is used in food processing machinery.
• As it’s not hygroscopic and its electrical properties are stable, it’s widely used for electrical applications such as insulators.
• It’s resistant to solvents.

• Although Nylon 12 has all the excellent mechanical features of polyamides without their weakest point (hygroscopicity), its high price prevents wider usage.

Nylon 12 has all the excellent mechanical features of polyamides without their weakest point, hygroscopicity. Its higher price does however prevent wider usage.