News | July 16, 2013

Global Plastics Leader Launches First PEEK Material Line With NORSOK Compliance

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Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products, the global leader of machinable plastics, has enhanced its line of Ketron® PEEK products in compliance with NORSOK M-710 standards to improve workplace and environmental safety. Quadrant is the first engineering plastics manufacturer in its industry to receive the certification under the most severe durability testing environments NORSOK offers.

Reading, PA (PRWEB) - Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products has enhanced its line of Ketron® PEEK products in compliance with NORSOK M-710 standards to improve workplace and environmental safety. The innovations reinforce Quadrant's commitment toward continued technological advancement and improved cost effectiveness in the petroleum industry for research, development and operations.

The Quadrant Ketron® PEEK material line is the material of choice for design engineers and is used in applications ranging from aircraft to oil field drilling, in the form of Structural Parts, Bushings, Bearings, Seals and Back Up Rings. Its advanced properties of chemical and abrasion resistance combined with high temperature rating and strength make it an ideal choice where performance and reliability is required in extreme and hostile environments.

Quadrant is the first engineering plastics manufacturer in its industry to receive the certification under the most severe durability testing environments NORSOK offers. NORSOK standards are an internationally recognized set of testing processes, originally developed by the Norwegian petroleum industry to ensure adequate safety for global petroleum industry developments and operations. Achieving NORSOK M-710 (multiphase sour gas/fluid testing) compliance on its extruded and injection molded/moulded, IM PEEK, stock shapes makes Ketron® PEEK very attractive to design engineers as a high strength alternative to fluoropolymers. According to Jim Hebel, head of technical support for Quadrant EPP, “Ketron® 1000 PEEK sets the new industry standard for performance in extreme environments and achieving NORSOK compliance allows us to better serve our customer’s needs in the oil and petroleum industries.”

Connect with a Quadrant material specialist via LIVE CHAT or visit the industry's first interactive engineering plastics material selector to learn more about Ketron® PEEK as well as the rest of Quadrant’s family of innovative thermoplastics.

About Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products:
For over 70 years, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (EPP) has been proving there is simply no substitute for quality, innovation and distinction. Quadrant EPP is the global leader of high-performance engineering plastics that are used for machined parts in food processing and packaging, semiconductor manufacturing, aerospace, electronics, chemical processing, life sciences, power generation and diverse industrial equipment. Its superior products range from UHMW polyethylene, nylon and acetal to ultra-high performance polymers that resist temperatures to over 800°F (425°C).

With a rich history as a company who pioneered machinable plastics, Quadrant is backed by a global team of application development and technical service engineers who specialize in evaluating designs and machining parts. Products and services are available through a worldwide network of branch offices, technical support centers and authorized dealers. Learn more about Quadrant at http://www.quadrantplastics.com. Use the Industry or Product Finders to access specific information, specs and applications. Connect with Quadrant, "quadrantepp" on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

Registered trademarks of the Quadrant group of companies: Acetron®, CleanStat®, Duraspin®, Duratron®, Erta®, Ertalyte®, Ertalene®, Ertalon®, Extreme Materials®, Fluorosint®, Ketron®, MC®, Monocast®, Nylatron®, Nylasteel®, Polypenco®, Proteus®, Sanalite®, Semitron®, Techtron®, TIVAR® and Vibratuf®.

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