Engineering Plastics offer solutions for equipment design problems: food equipment manufacturers face numerous challenges--meeting the industry's demands for productivity, cleanliness and conformity to agency standards--all while trying to keep costs down. Using high performance engineering plastics to replace metal parts is one often overlooked way to achieve these goals.(Exclusive Feature)

Food Manufacturing | October 1, 2005| | Copyright

Plastics are non-abrasive when mated to a metal part or another plastic. This means that the plastic part does not wear at the mating surface, and it does not cause wear on the metal part. In some cases, plastic can outlast metal by as much as 7 to 10 times in a wear or bearing application. Plastic is also less likely to slough contaminating slivers, particles or dust into the process as can often happen with metal-to-metal interfaces. In addition, some plastics can be internally lubricated with FDA-compliant lubricants, eliminating the cost and maintenance time associated ...

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