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Vespel ®

Temperature extremes, high friction, and heavy loads? Vespel® has outperformed other engineering materials under the most severe conditions since 1965. Highly demanding applications like aerospace components, semiconductor processing, automotive manufacturing, and energy production rely on Vespel® parts to keep their equipment running. Vespel® polyimide materials provide continuous operation at cryogenic to high temperatures; low wear and low friction at high PV in lubricated or unlubricated environments; outstanding creep, strength, and impact resistance; exceptional dimensional stability; low thermal expansion; and easy machinability. Vespel® makes lighter weight parts not only practical, but, in many cases, better than standard metal, ceramics, and other engineering polymers such as PEEK (polyether ether ketone) and PAI (polyamide-imide). With design centers in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, DuPont technicians collaborate with customers to combine materials science with design to produce high-performance parts and keep production running smoothly. Vespel® parts and shapes, both custom and stock, have been tested and proven effective in highly demanding applications around the globe. They are available in sheet, rod, tube, plaque, bar, disk, ring, ball, and custom machined parts.

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Features and Benefits

Vespel® shapes and parts provide engineering materials for the most demanding industrial operations where equipment must withstand temperature extremes, high friction, and heavy loads. Advantages of products Vespel® include:

  • Low creep and low out-gassing

  • Lightweight yet handles high loads

  • Chemical, electrical, wear, and thermal resistance

  • Strength, stiffness, and dimensional stability

  • Easy to machine and can be machined to very close tolerances

  • Works well under hard vacuum, radiation, oxygen compatibility, cryogenic conditions, and exposure to flame

  • Costs less to manufacture than ceramic

Applications

  • Bearings, bushings, insulators, seals, thrust washers, and wear rings

  • Wear pads, wear strips, and tube clamps

  • Thermoplastic injection-molded, assembled, and composite parts

  • Test sockets and wafer guides

  • Glass handling technology

  • Wear components in centrifugal pumps

  • Hydrocarbon, chemical, and water service pumps

  • Potable water applications

Case Studies

VESPEL® SCP-5050 SWEEP-OUT FINGERS & STACKER BAR INSERTS

Veda-Pack, a leading Russian glass packaging company, needed to improve plant reliability. They had tested many different glass contacting materials with limited success, until they saw the results with VESPEL® SCP-5050 sweep-out fingers and stacker bar inserts.

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Vespel® CR-6100 stationary wear rings in centrifugal pumps providing water to cooling towers helps lower energy consumption

Due to the high cost of energy, a chemical plant in Southern Texas had to find ways to increase its energy efficiency to lower its total operational cost.

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Vespel® Brings High-Temperature Performance to Aircraft Bushings and Washers

A variety of jet engine components - from variable vanes to torque box/bell crank linkage arms - have relative motion that can benefit from the wear-resistant, low-friction properties of VESPEL®. VESPEL® composites have demonstrated high performance in aerospace bushing and washer applications for more than 40 years, and our range of products allows us to customize material solutions to specific customer needs.

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Vespel® High-Temperature Performance for Aircraft Bushings and Washers - Case Study
DuPont's Vespel® offers a wide variety of products that have demonstrated high performance on bushing and washer applications across turbines, engines, and aircraft for over 40 years.

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