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Delrin

DuPont Brand
Supplier:  DuPont
Products:  86

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Identification

Additives Included
Lubricant (Unspecified),Mold Release Agent,Release agent,UV Stabilizer
Chemical Family
Acetals
Fillers Included
Glass Fiber,Kevlar Fiber,PTFE,PTFE Fiber,PTFE Micropowder
Polymer Name
Polyacetal Copolymer (POM),Polyacetal Homopolymer (POM)
Technologies
Plastics
Product Families
Engineering & Specialty Polymers
Polyacetals
Plastics & Elastomers Functions
Resin

Features & Benefits

Labeling Claims
Food Contact Acceptable,Sustainable

Applications & Uses

Markets
Automotive & Transportation,Building & Construction,Consumer Goods,Electrical & Electronics,Food & Nutrition,Healthcare & Pharma,Industrial,Printing & Packaging
Applications
Appliances & Electronics
Automotive
Chassis & Brake,Cooling & Climate,Electrical & Electronic Systems,Exterior & Body,Fuel Systems,Interior,Other Automotive Applications,Powertrain & UTH,Safety Systems,Seating
Bonding & Assembly
Other Bonding & Assembly Applications
Building Materials
Pipes & Plumbing,Structural Components
Chemical & Industrial Manufacturing
Equipment & Parts,Other Industrial Applications,Tooling & Moldmaking
Devices & Assemblies
Automotive Electronics,Consumer Electronics,Other Devices & Assemblies
Furniture
Housewares
Medical
Implants & Prosthetics,Other Medical Applications,Surgical Instruments & Trays,Tubing & Fluids Handling,Wound Care
Other Consumer Goods Applications
Other Electrical & Electronics Applications
Other Industrial Applications
Packaging
Food & Beverage Packaging,Industrial & Transport Packaging
Parts & Components
Connectors,Housings & Enclosures,Other Parts & Components,Sensors & Actuators,Switches & Relays
Processing & Packaging
Food & Beverage Manufacturing,Other Processing & Packaging Applications
Sports & Recreation
Stationery, Art & Office Supplies
Plastics & Elastomers End Uses
Appliances,Automotive Applications,Automotive Brackets,Automotive Gears,Automotive Interior Parts,Automotive Interior Trim,Automotive Power Unit,Automotive Safety,Automotive Safety Pushbutton,Automotive Safety Retractor,Bearings,Bushings,Cams,Connectors,Consumer Applications,Containers,Conveyors,Drug Delivery Pens,Electrical Parts,Electrical/Electronic Applications,Fasteners,Fluid Handling,Furniture Damper,Garden Equipment,Gears,General Purpose,Hoses,Household Goods,Housings,Industrial Applications,Lawn Equipment,Levers,Medical/Healthcare Applications,Molds/Dies/Tools,Non Specific Food Applications,Plastic Gear,Prosthetics,Pulleys,Pumps,SRS Actuator,SRS Adjuster,SRS Airbag,SRS Pillar Loop,SRS Pretensioner,SRS Seatbelt,Safety Equipment,Safety Helmets,Safety Restrain System,Sporting Goods,Surgical Instruments,Switches,Tubing,Valves,Wound Dressings
Plastics & Elastomers Processing Methods
Cable Extrusion,Extrusion,Film Extrusion,Injection Molding,Profile Extrusion

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Features and Benefits

Delrin acetal homopolymer resin is a highly-crystalline engineering thermoplastic industry leaders specify for high load mechanical applications. Advantages of Delrin® include:

  • High fatigue resistance
  • High creep resistance
  • High toughness
  • High tensile strength and stiffness
  • Enables thinner, lighter part design
  • Offers potential for reducing part production costs
Applications
  • Gears
  • Safety restraint components
  • Door system components
  • Conveyor system components
  • Medical delivery devices
  • Ski bindings
  • Zip fasteners
Case Studies

DuPont Delrin® Components Meet Strict Standards for Life-Saving Automotive Safety Restraint Systems
The DuPont™ Delrin® portfolio of polymers—proven for almost 40 years to work in demanding safety applications—provides the foundation for collaboration between DuPont and Autoliv, the world’s largest automotive safety supplier.

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Designing for Delrin®, a global customer gained significant cost savings

A major customer used Delrin® acetal homopolymer over acetal copolymer to redesign the next generation of their part. The result: thinner, lighter part design at same part performance that allowed the company to shorten production cycle time and to gain significant cost savings in part production cost.

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Ford Seat Design Relies on Delrin® Toughness and Load Stiffness

At Ford Motor Company, innovation and a commitment to safety are core values that helped drive the development of an award-winning seat system that provides greater comfort and safety, including improved rear-impact neck protection. A key component of this new design is a power head restraint drive nut molded with Delrin®, a material that features an ideal balance of toughness and load stiffness.

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Delrin® CPE - A New Platform of Emission-minimized POM Homopolymers with Optimized Processing Efficiency
The recent commercial launch of the first grades in the DuPont™ Delrin® CPE family marks the inception of a completely new generation of Delrin® POM homopolymers. These grades enable significant reductions in emission values and mold deposits with further efficiency-boosting application and processing advantages over the materials previously available in DuPont’s range.

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DuPont Smart Home Solutions Robot Vacuum Cleaner by RoboRock
The Robot Vacuum Cleaner by RoboRock is a new generation robotic vacuum cleaner with higher energy efficiency and more consumer comfort requiring low noise and high durability. DuPont's Zytel® RS and Delrin® helped RoboRock achieve consumer comfort easily!

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DuPont™ Delrin® Drives Productivity and Sustainability for High Speed Filling Lines
DuPont™ Delrin® acetal homopolymer with advanced slip technology played a key role in the development of a breakthrough conveyor material for bottling and other filling operations that avoids the need for traditional external lubricants.

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Hot Runner Manual for Robust Molding of Semi-crystalline Resins
Maximizing productivity is an important factor in determining part cost. One way to improve productivity is using a hot runner system. The decision when to use a hot runner system is mainly influenced by “yield” as hot runners can add complexity and cost to molds and require additional maintenance. Due to continuous improvement in the hot runner design a robust molding process is possible even with traditionally more thermally sensitive thermoplastic resins.

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Safety Restraint Systems
Dupont's Delrin® grades with highest mechanical performance allow reduction in part size while increasing safety with high-impact parts in the seat belt. Delrin® E-grades used for low emissions are available in three basic melt flow series that vary in their melt viscosity helps to reduced noise from seatbelt retractor parts to enhance driver experience and can withstand temperatures of -40°C to +95°C and are used in Pillar Loop, Retractors, Push Buttons and Seat Belts.

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Low-Friction, Low-Noise DuPont™ Delrin® Unleashes the Power in OPPO's Smartphone with Pivot-rising Camera
Two grades of DuPont™ Delrin® acetal homopolymers succeeded in delivering the performance OPPO required for the compact, sliding component that pivots the camera up from the top edge of the Reno smartphone. In-lab testing that simulated smartphone use proved that where other products like copolymers had cracked and failed, Delrin® materials remained strong and operated smoothly.

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DELRIN® Material Properties

The chemical composition, regular molecular structure and high degree of crystallinity are the basis of these outstanding attributes of DELRIN®:

  • Toughness at low temperature (down to -40°C)
  • High mechanical strength and rigidity
  • Fatigue endurance unmatched by other plastics
  • High resistance to repeated impacts
  • Excellent resistance to moisture, gasolines, solvents and many other neutral chemicals
  • Excellent dimensional stability
  • Natural lubricity
  • Resilience
  • Good electrical insulating characteristics
  • Ease of fabrication
  • Wide useful temperature range