15% Quartz ( (85% Virgin PTFE + 15% Quartz)

 

This material offers an excellent combination of properties Typical of the PTFE fluoropolymer resins:
• Service Temperature: offers excellent resistance to continuous service temperatures – working conditions from -100° C (-148°F) up to 250°C (482°F) and, for limited periods, even to higher temperatures; product’s
low temperature resistance allows satisfactory performance down to –200°C (-328°F).
• Chemical resistance: offers high inertness towards nearly all known chemicals. Only attacked elemental alkali metals, chlorine trifluoride and elemental fluorine at high temperature and pressures might affect properties.
Quartz is chemically inert with the exception of its reactivity with hydrofluoric acid and strong bases.
• Solvents resistance: offers insoluble properties in all solvents up to temperatures as high as 300° C (572° F). Certain highly fluorinated oils only swell and dissolve PTFE at temperatures close to the crystalline melting
point.

Properties
• Improved thermal dimensional stability
• Excellent chemical stability
• Improved creep resistance
• Excellent electrical insulating properties
• Improved compression strength
• Improved wear resistance
• Exceptional temperature resistance
• Improved surface hardness

Main applications
Quartz Compound offers excellent properties in the chemical processing, in automotive industries, in sealing application and in mechanical applications in general for bushing, sliding pads, and for slide ways for machine tools.
High wear and abrasion resistance and good wear compression properties are suitable for the majority of dry bearing applications against hard counter-surfaces.
Quartz Compound is commonly used filler for dynamic seal applications where both rotating and alternating movements are involved, pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical parts, valve seats, gaskets, pneumatic, compressors, appliances, insulators hydraulic and mechanical parts.

Statement on suitability for contact with foodstuff
FDA Approved US Regulation
• Code of Federal regulation 21 CFR Ch.1; section 177.1550 Perfluorocarbon Resins of the Food and Drug
Administration/US.

 

EU Regulation
• EU 1935/2004 - 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles to come in contact with food. Is not suitable to be
used in contact with acidic foodstuffs for which simulant B is used, according to EU Reg. 10/2011.