50% Inox (50% Virgin PTFE + 50% Stainless Steel AISI 316 L)

 

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.
• 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
• High thermal conductivity
• Improved deformation under load
• Very good chemical stability
• Improved surface hardness
• Reduced friction & wear; Low friction behaviour
• Improved compression strength
• Exceptional temperature resistance
• Low permeability
• Suitable for food contact

Main applications
Inox 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. It’s widely used in Packaging industries for his ability to be used in contact with food.
Inox Compound is commonly used filler for dynamic applications where high compression and chemical resistance are required. Large quantities of Inox reduce deformation under load and raise the thermal and electrical conductivity of PTFE compound. These two characteristics are beneficial to applications where a part is subjected to load at extreme temperatures.
Inox Compound is easily machined. It’s useful in applications which undergo high mechanical loads or high-speed rubbing contacts where the Inox filler supplies the strength and conductivity to carry away excess, unwanted heat.

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.