- Hi, Clint here from Supply Services.
Another short video today
covering one of our many engineering plastic materials
for the New Zealand industry.
Today I wanna talk about PEEK, P-E-E-K.
It's chemical name is polyetheretherketone.
Here is a sample of PEEK.
If I pop this up to the camera.
It's an ivory color, has a bit of a snake skin.
It's quite cool, actually.
We import all our PEEK materials from Ensinger in Germany
so trade name through Ensinger is TECAPEEK
and I'm holding a piece of TECAPEEK Natural.
What is PEEK, what is TECAPEEK?
TECAPEEK is a semi-crystalline thermoplastic.
It falls within our high performance plastics range
and it has excellent service temperatures.
We're talking about short-term bursts up to 300 degree C.
We're talking long-term constant 260 degrees C.
It has a melting point of 341 degrees C.
A really versatile plastic.
It's often used in hot water
and steam environments under load
while maintaining its physical properties.
Those are real important
and that's one of the things that makes PEEK so great.
PEEK thrives in harsh environments
and has awesome chemical resistance.
Being a high performance engineering material
PEEK, TECAPEEK, it's going to cost you more
than your standard
or your basic engineering plastic materials.
But you're going to get a return on investment
with this material
because you're going to be able to make lighter
stronger and more chemically-resistant parts
that'll last longer.
So you're going to get a good return on investment
for the additional cost in this material.
We machine TECAPEEK into numerous finished parts
for applications and the New Zealand industry.
Some of the common ones
that we do are for conveyor technics
mechanical engineering, food conveyors
the oil and gas industry just to name a few.
This piece of TECAPEEK that I'm holding
it is FDA and EU 10/2011 approved, so it's food certified.
That's great for food grade applications.
It also holds aerospace and oil and gas certifications.
Then we start getting into the advanced grades of TECAPEEK.
Available to Supply Services through our supplier Ensinger
we have 16 different grades of TECAPEEK available.
We stock a range of those in New Zealand
but one of the ones I want to show you now is TECAPEEK PVX.
So we'll pop it up to the camera.
Still got that snakeskin look.
It's black, sounds pretty cool.
It's nice and hard.
Now, this material has 10% each of PTFE
otherwise known as Teflon, graphite
and carbon fibers added to this material.
And what it does is
that makes it an ultra-high performance bearing material
really good for wear applications.
TECAPEEK PVX is an ideal bearing material
where you're running high loading at high speeds
unlubricated and hostile environments.
Thanks for watching this short video
on our TECAPEEK product.
Hope you learned something about TECAPEEK
and how we can help you put it into service applications.
Our staff are IAPD certified and trained.
They know their stuff.
We've got guys out on the road willing to come
and pay you a visit to give you the knowledge that you need
so you get the right material for your application.
Give us a call, nationwide toll-free
(0800) 102-112.