Nylatron® 101 Polyamide PA66 / Ertalon® 66 SA Polyamide PA66 unmodified shapes are characterized by their superior combination of strength and toughness. Compared to other unmodified nylon grades, Nylatron® 101 PA66 / Ertalon® 66 SA PA66 components possess superior mechanical strength, stiffness, wear resistance, in addition to displaying one of the highest melting points of all PA66 materials. Due to these properties, and this grade's FDA and EU food compliant composition, Nylatron® 101 PA66 / Ertalon® 66 SA PA66 is often specified for screw machined electrical insulators, bushings, bearings, gears, roller wheels, star wheels, and seals.

Nylatron® 101 Polyamide PA66 FG (Food Grade) / Ertalon® 66 SA Polyamide PA66 FG (Food Grade) unmodified shapes are characterized by their superior combination of strength and toughness. Compared to other unmodified nylon grades, Nylatron® 101 PA66 / Ertalon® 66 SA PA66 components possess superior mechanical strength, stiffness, wear resistance, in addition to displaying one of the highest melting points of all PA66 materials. Due to these properties, and this grade’s FDA (21 CFR § 177.1500) and EU 10/2011 food compliancy, Nylatron® 101 PA66 FG / Ertalon® 66 SA PA66 FG is often specified for screw machined electrical insulators, bushings, bearings, gears, roller wheels, star wheels, and seals.

Nylatron® 4.6 Polyamide PA46 / Ertalon® 4.6 Polyamide PA46 shapes are characterized by their superior heat aging resistance, as well as their ability to retain their outstanding stiffness and creep resistance over a wide range of temperatures. Due to these unique capabilities, Nylatron® 4.6 PA46 / Ertalon® 4.6 PA46 components excel in extreme environments where PA6, PA66, POM, and PET materials typically fall short. Additional application examples for Nylatron® 4.6 PA46 / Ertalon® 4.6 PA46 include bushings, bearings, gears, pulleys, sheaves, wear pads, valve seats, seals, and conveyor wear components.

Nylatron® 66 SA Flame Retardant (FR) Polyamide PA66 shapes were developed to fulfill the requirements of the plastic flammability test, which determines the tendency of the material to either extinguish or spread the flame once the it has been ignited. This test procedure is described in UL 94, and this particular Nylatron® grade fulfills the V-0 criteria from a thickness of 1 mm, while also meeting the requirements of EN 45545-2 regulation- a standard specific to railway applications. For these reasons, Nylatron® SA FR PA66 components are often favored solutions for applications within the transportation and railway markets such as, cable holders, clamps, and channels, and connections / sockets.

Nylatron® 66 SA Polyamide PA66 AE unmodified shapes are characterized by their superior combination of strength and toughness. Compared to other unmodified nylon grades, Nylatron® 66 SA PA66 AE components possess superior mechanical strength, stiffness , and wear resistance. The grade is FDA 21 CFR § 177.1500 compliant as well. Due to these properties, Nylatron® 66 SA PA66 AE is often specified for screw machined electrical insulators, bushings, bearings, gears, roller wheels, star wheels, and seals.

Nylatron® 703 XL Polyamide PA6 is a unique, ultra-high performance bearing grade that offers even better wear resistance than Nylatron® NSM, with superior load bearing capabilities and a near zero level of stick-slip. Due to the elimination of stick-slip, an extraordinary amount of motion control for high-precision applications is gained, which is why Nylatron® 703 XL PA6 is often favored as a solution for wear pads, conveyor components, corner tracks, and pneumatic control surfaces throughout the construction and heavy equipment markets.

Nylatron® FST Polyamide PA66 shapes are fire, smoke, and toxicity retardant, which enables them to withstand high temperatures. In addition to these characteristics, Nylatron® FST PA66 is also JAR / FAR 25.853 compliant. As the first engineering plastic to achieve this standard, this grade was also developed specifically for aircraft interior environments, and is often favored as a replacement for metal parts applications, such as brackets, seal bushings, slide rails, and duct seals.

Nylatron® GF30 Polyamide PA66 / Ertalon® 66 GF30 Polyamide PA66 is a 30% glass fiber-reinforced grade that offers increased strength, stiffness, creep resistance, and dimensional stability, while also maintaining its excellent wear resistance properties. Due to these characteristics, Nylatron® GF30 PA66 / Ertalon® 66 GF30 PA66 components are often favored as solutions for sleeve and slide bearings, wear pads, rollers, pulleys, scrapers, gear wheels, sprockets, star wheels, and insulators.

Nylatron GS Polyamide PA66 AE, is a Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) filled nylon that offers outstanding strength and rigidity, and a lower coefficient of linear thermal expansion than other nylon products. Due to these characteristics, Nylatron GS PA66 AE components maintain their fits and clearances, and also have a reduced likelihood to seize as bearings. For these reasons, this grade can be found as bushings, bearings, roller wheels, pulleys, sheaves, wear pads, valve seats, and seals throughout the construction and heavy equipment industries.

Nylatron® GS Polyamide PA66, is a Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) filled nylon that offers outstanding strength and rigidity, and a lower coefficient of linear thermal expansion than other nylon products. Due to these characteristics, Nylatron® GS PA66 components maintain their fits and clearances, and also have a reduced likelihood to seize as bearings. For these reasons, this grade can be found as bushings, bearings, roller wheels, pulleys, sheaves, wear pads, valve seats, and seals throughout the construction and heavy equipment industries.

Nylatron® GSM Blue Polyamide PA6 is a Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) and oil filled nylon that is characterized by its superior frictional characteristics, low coefficient of friction, greater limiting PV, and low “k” (wear) factor. Due to these characteristics, this grade excels in high pressure environments and at low speeds, making it a favored solution for slide pads, thrust washers, and trunnion bearings. Furthermore, Nylatron® GSM Blue PA6 components also excel as bearing and wear parts in a wide range of automated equipment applications.

Nylatron® LIG Polyamide PA6 is a self-lubricating, oil filled nylon that is an ideal solution for industrial applications in the conveying and processing industries. This grade in particular exhibits higher toughness and limiting pressure velocity when compared to unfilled grades, and also offers a low coefficient of friction for a wide range of applications including bushings, bearings, roller wheels, and valve seats and seals.

Nylatron® MC 901 Heat Stabilized (HS) Polyamide PA6 shapes offer long-term thermal stability, and are ideal for a variety of bearing and structural applications such as wheels, gears, and custom parts. Distinguishable by its blue color, this grade is characterized by its outstanding mechanical strength, rigidity, hardness, and toughness, great sliding properties, excellent electrical insulation properties, and outstanding wear resistance capabilities.

Nylatron® MC 901 Polyamide PA6 shapes with its distinctive blue colour exhibits higher toughness, flexibility and fatigue resistance than Ertalon® 6 PLA. It has proved to be an excellent material for gear wheels, racks and pinions.

Nylatron® MC 907 Polyamide PA6 / Ertalon® 6PLA Polyamide PA6 unmodified shapes offer the highest strength and hardness of all nylon 6 grades, and also exhibit great creep and wear resistance, heat aging properties, and machinability capabilities. Due to this grade's FDA and EU food contact compliant composition, Nylatron® MC 907 PA6 / Ertalon® 6PLA PA6 components can be found throughout the food processing and packaging industry as gears, rollers, wheel, bearings, and conveyor wear parts.

Nylatron® NSM Polyamide PA66 is a solid lubricant-filled, proprietary cast nylon formulation that gives this particular grade superior self-lubricating properties, outstanding friction behavior, maximum wear resistance, and excellent dynamic load-bearing capacities that are up to five times higher than conventional cast nylon grades. As the highest wear resistant thermoplastic available, Nylatron® NSM PA66 components excel in higher velocity, unlubricated moving parts applications where larger geometries are required. Due to these characteristics and properties, Nylatron® NSM PA66 is a favored solution for bearings, gears, wear pads, pulleys, sheaves, bushings, valve seats, and seals, and has the ability to last up to 10 times longer than standard nylon grades.

Nylatron® Nylon 105 PA66 Black is a material which exhibits an ideal balance of strength and toughness, Broad size and shape availability and good wear characteristics and hence suited for general purpose bearing and wear components.

Nylatron® SLG FDA Polyamide PA6 is a self-lubricated, oil-filled nylon that is ideal for food processing and packaging applications that require a low coefficient of friction. In addition to these characteristics, this grade exhibits higher toughness and limiting pressure velocity when compared to unfilled grades, and also meets FDA compliance for plastics in contact with food.

Ertalon® 6PLA-E PA6 unmodified shapes offer one of the highest strength and hardness of all nylon 6 grades, and also exhibit great creep and wear resistance, heat aging properties, and machinability capabilities. The grade is FDA 21 CFR § 177.1500 compliant as well. Ertalon 6PLA-E PA6 components can be found throughout the food processing and packaging industry as gears, rollers, wheel, bearings, and conveyor wear parts.

Nylatron VMX Polyamide PA6 FG (Food Grade) is a EU 10/2011 and FDA 21 CFR § 177.1500 compliant material containing a metal detectable additive, has been specifically tailored for use in the food processing and packaging industries where it can easily be traced by different detection systems installed to detect contamination of the foodstuffs. Nylatron VMX PA6 FG presents good mechanical strength, stiffness, impact strength and wear resistance and therefore make this grade especially suited for wear and friction applications in the food Industry.

Nylatron® WP Polyamide PA6 self-lubricated shapes outperform competing nylon products in wear resistance and load bearing capabilities, and also provide users with an economical solution across a wide range of applications and industries. Developed specifically for wear pad applications, Nylatron® WP PA6 components exhibit excellent wear properties and a high limiting PV, while also offering weight and noise reduction, corrosion resistance, and easy machining. Furthermore, another key benefit of this grade in particular is its ability to extend part life, and reduce maintenance and associated downtime / costs.