Vertec

Vertec™ 1006 is a carbon fiber filled PTFE (polytetrafluorethylene) material. It exhibits improved creep and wear resistance. Increased thermal conductivity and low coefficient of friction ensure low wear rate even under dry running conditions. It is suitable for gaskets, valve seals, packings, bearings, and piston rings.

Vertec™ 1009 is a polymer filled PTFE (polytetrafluorethylene) material. It exhibits good sealability, creep resistance, very low coefficient of friction and low wear rate under dry running conditions. Its non-abrasive nature makes it an ideal sealing material for use against soft metal surfaces in dynamic applications. It is suitable for water and steam service, and therefore it is a good candidate where VERTEC 1011 is not acceptable.

Vertec™ 1011 is a polymer filled PTFE (polytetrafluorethylene) material. It exhibits good sealability, very low coefficient of friction and low wear rate under dry running conditions. Its non-abrasive nature makes it an ideal sealing material for use against soft metal surfaces in dynamic applications. It has been met with great success in high speed, high temperature compressor applications. It is widely used for piston cups and oxygen compressors.

Vertec™ 1015 is a glass fiber and molybdenum disulfide filled polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE). It is used for bushings, bearings, and sealing elements where low creep properties with good sealability and low wear rates are desirable.

Vertec™ 1020 is a carbon-graphite filled PTFE (polytetrafluorethylene) material. Its ability to run under dry or wet conditions along with its low wear rate makes it an ideal high temperature bearing material. It also offers high load bearing capability, relative to other flouropolymers, for many general-purpose industrial applications.

Vertec™ 1021 is a filled PTFE (polytetrafluorethylene) material. It exhibits good sealability, low coefficient of friction and very low wear rate under dry running conditions. It is a little harder and a bit more abrasive than other similar use materials, 1011, and 1110, however it wears better and can handle higher speed applications. It is an ideal sealing material for use against metal surfaces in dynamic applications. It has performed especially well in air compressor applications such as piston cups.

Vertec™ 1023 is bronze filled PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene). It provides better creep resistance than most of the PTFE alloys. It possesses high compressive strength and good wear and sliding properties. Most common applications include piston rings (compressors), bushes, bearings, and wear pads for high compression sliding applications. Certain chemicals may easily attack bronze.

Vertec™ 1024 is PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) reinforced with glass fiber. Glass fiber improves the wear properties of PTFE, lowers the deformation under load at both high and low temperatures, and increases the impact resistance while leaving the electrical and chemical characteristics of PTFE essentially unchanged. It is suitable for piston rings, valve seats, shaft seals, electrical insulators, bearing pads and gaskets. This material should not be used in contact with strong alkalis and hydrofluoric acid.

Vertec™ 1025 is an FDA compliant filled PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) material that possesses excellent load and wear characteristics, and works well against soft as well as hard surfaces, like aluminum, mild steel, and 303/316 stainless steels. It is capable of running in steam, wet, dry, and vacuum environments - without any moisture or lubrication. It is widely used in food processing industries.

Vertec™ 1027 is a glass fiber filled PTFE (polytetrafluorethylene) material. It exhibits low wear and creep under load. However, since glass fibers are abrasive, use of this material against certain metallic counterfaces must be carefully examined.

Vertec™ 1028 is bronze loaded PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene). It has the best wear properties, remarkable deformation strengths and good thermal conductivity, but poor chemical resistance. It also possesses excellent creep resistance along with pure PTFE benefits like almost no moisture absorption, low friction coefficient and no flammability. It is often used in hydraulic systems. It is most suitable for piston rings, rider rings, and bearings.

Vertec™ 1030 is a polymer and carbon fiber filled PTFE (polytetrafluorethylene) material. It is our proprietary low wearing PTFE material. This material has excellent elastic modulus and very low CTE for PTFE based materials. This material is specifically designed for dry running compressor sealing components and many other dry or demanding bearing applications where PTFE is deemed appropriate.

Vertec™ 5000 is unreinforced PEEK (polyetheretherketone) material. Its high mechanical properties at elevated temperatures, combined with excellent chemical and hydrolysis resistance, make it the most popular advanced thermoplastic material available today. The use of unreinforced PEEK material is increasingly growing across all industries for metal replacements and other applications. Now, with its FDA approval, PEEK material can also be used to fabricate components in food and beverage as well as medical and pharmaceutical processing equipment.

Vertec™ 5001 is Vertec’s high elongation, compression molded unreinforced PEEK (polyetheretherketone) material. Its high mechanical properties at elevated temperatures, combined with excellent chemical and hydrolysis resistance, make it the most popular advanced thermoplastic material available today. The use of unreinforced PEEK material is increasingly growing across all industries for metal replacements and other applications. Now, with its FDA compliance, PEEK material can also be used to fabricate components in food and beverage as well as medical and pharmaceutical processing equipment.

Vertec™ 5010 is a glass fiber reinforced PEEK (polyetheretherketone) material. It exhibits higher modulus than VERTEC 5000 (neat PEEK), thus offering more resistance to deformation under load at elevated temperatures. This material is an ideal candidate for many structural component applications carrying high static loads. Due to the abrasiveness of glass fibers, its use against soft metal surfaces in dynamic applications must be carefully examined.

Vertec™ 5020 is a bearing grade carbon fiber reinforced PEEK (polyetheretherketone) material. It offers higher modulus, mechanical strength and resistance to deformation under load than VERTEC 5010. Due to the presence of carbon fibers, thermal conductivity of this material is 3.5 times higher than VERTEC 5000 (unreinforced PEEK), thus it dissipates heat at a faster rate. It also gives stable and reliable ESD performance providing maximum protection from static charge build-up.

Vertec™ 5023 is a proprietary, bearing grade PEEK (polyetheretherketone) material developed especially for the canning industry. Tribological evaluations under dry running conditions have shown its friction coefficient and wear rate to be much lower than any other bearing grade PEEK composite material available in the market. It is more ductile and flexible than our top-of-the-line Vertec 5025 and Vertec 5028 allowing more of a softer contact surface against a variety of metallic counter-surfaces. At the PV values of 40,000 psi-fpm and higher, its coefficient of friction approaches that of unfilled PTFE. Also, the counter-surface wear is much less.

Vertec™ 5025 is a proprietary, bearing grade PEEK (polyetheretherketone) material, reinforced with carbon fibers and internally lubricated with different proprietary lubricants to improve dry running capabilities. Tribological evaluations under dry running conditions have shown its friction coefficient and wear rate to be much lower than other bearing grade composite materials available in the market.

Vertec™ 5028 is a high performance PEEK (polyetheretherketone) composite for the most demanding dynamic and structural applications. This bearing grade material, reinforced and with proprietary lubrication, is capable of performing extremely well in high pressure and high velocity applications.

Vertec™ 5030 is an industry standard, lubricated, reinforced bearing grade PEEK material. This 10/10/10 Carbon-fiber, Graphite, PTFE composite is popular for a number of medium PV dynamic applications. It is equivalent to Victrex 150/450FC30.