Product Overview - Engineering 185°F - 300°F

Ensinger's Engineering category consists of materials that are designed to deliver a unique combination of performance characteristics. They offer strength, wear, and chemical resistance profiles at an excellent cost to performance ratio. This most versatile product grouping is ideal to choose from when component part value is of utmost concern.

Acetal - TECAFORM® and Delrin®

Ensinger's acetal product line has a unique balance of physical properties not available in most other thermoplastics. Its key performance characteristics include high mechanical strength and rigidity, excellent wear, low moisture absorption and excellent dimensional stability, made even more pronounced by Ensinger's state-of-the-art and proprietary extrusion process.

TECAFORM® AH
TECAFORM® is a semi-crystalline thermoplastic offering high strength, stiffness, and toughness. TECAFORM is resistant to hot water, hydrocarbons and solvents, and it possesses good bearing and wear properties. » Read more

TECAFORM® AD HPV13 - Teflon® powder filled
TECAFORM® HPV13 is a brown homopolymer acetal with an internal PTFE lubricant. Its low coefficient of friction, excellent PV values, toughness, wear resistance, and machinability make it an exceptional material for use in many industrial and military components with moving parts. » Read more

TECAFORM® AH SD - static dissipative
Ensinger's static dissipative acetal contains no carbon fibers or powders and is generally accepted for clean room use. » Read more

TECAFORM® MT (medical grade)
Developed for the medical industry, TECAFORM® MT has a great many uses because of its strength and stiffness, low water absorption and resistance to a number of disinfecting agents. Ensinger offers this product in a wide variety of colors which have been formulated for orthopedic sizing trials as well as many other uses. » Read more

DELRIN® acetal homopolymer
Made with DuPont's Delrin acetal homopolymer resin, Ensinger's Delrin product line offers some of the best physical property characteristics in the acetal category. Because of its crystalline structure, Delrin possesses higher strength and stiffness properties as well as better fatigue and creep resistance than copolymer acetals. Ensinger's proprietary extrusion process produces a much higher density center than competitive homopolymer acetals. » Read more

DELRIN® AF blend - Teflon® fiber filled
A 13% Teflon fiber filled homopolymer acetal that has an improved coefficient of friction, better lubricity and improved wear characteristics over unfilled acetal. » Read more

DELRIN® 511P
This grade of Delrin offers improvements in thermal stability and machinability. » Read more

TECAFORM® AH FG Blue (Food Grade Acetal Copolymer)
TECAFORM® is resistant to hot water, and typical cleaning chemicals, and it possesses good bearing and wear properties. » Read more

TECAFORM® AH ID (Metal Detectable Acetal)
TECAFORM® AH ID is the first commercially available thermoplastic that can be detected by the standard metal detection equipment that is typically used in quality inspection. » Read more

Nylon - TECAMID® and TECAST®

The Ensinger nylon family is one of the most widely recognized and used engineering thermoplastics. Its key properties are outstanding wear and abrasion resistance, along with good impact, chemical, and temperature resistance. It is available in a large number of extruded and cast grades.

TECAMID 66 - extruded nylon 66
TECAMID 66 is Ensinger's general purpose unfilled extrusion grade nylon. It is available in natural and black and exhibits excellent mechanical properties that are not negatively affected by hydrocarbons, ketone or ester based chemicals. It is most often used for bushings, bearing, and other wear parts. » Read more

TECAMID 66 MO - Molybdenum Disulfide filled
Black or gray in color, the addition of molybdenum disulfide increases the surface hardness of nylon while also enhancing the surface lubricity and wear resistance of the material. » Read more

TECAMID 66 GF30 - 30% Glass reinforced
The addition of 30% glass fibers serves to increase strength and dimensional stability of TECAMID GF30 as well as enhances its wear characteristics. » Read more

TECAMID 612 - extruded nylon 612
This member of the TECAMID family has lower moisture absorption than our standard 66 nylon and therefore exhibits superior dimensional stability than the standard product. » Read more

Pennite 4512
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TECAMID ST - Super tough
Made from Zytel® ST801 resin, TECAMID ST has dramatically increased impact resistance properties and toughness. » Read more

TECAMID 66 HI - heat stabilized
This heat stabilized product has an increased ability to withstand the negative effects of heat exposure and increased overall service temperature. » Read more

Pennite 982
Pennite 982 gives suppliers of thermoformed components such as trays and bins in electronic applications a solution for a highly conductive material with great electro static dissipative properties. Properties below measured on .080 inch thick sheet. » Read more

Polyesters - Hydex® 4101 and TECAPET™

The Ensinger polyester family consists of products that offer a level of performance above our engineering grade acetals and nylons, especially when it comes to chemical resistance. Possessing particular resistance to cleaning chemicals and caustics, polyesters are very popular in the food industry as well as medical applications.

HYDEX 4101
Hydex 4101 has been designed to provide users with polyester based material that is able to withstand the higher levels of impact often associated with industrial environments. It is a very good wear material in addition to having low moisture up-take, and good dimensional stability. Hydex 4101L is the lubricated version. » Read more

TECAPET
For those users that require the combination of a high level of chemical resistance and mechanical strength without moving out of the high value category of our standard industrial product line, TECAPET should be the material of choice. » Read more

Hydex® 4101 UD Blue Metal & X-Ray Detectable PBT
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HYDEX 4101L
Hydex 4101 has been designed to provide users with polyester based material that is able to withstand the higher levels of impact often associated with industrial environments. It is a very good wear material in addition to having low moisture up-take, and good dimensional stability. Hydex 4101L is the lubricated version. » Read more

Polycarbonate - TECANAT®

Ensinger's polycarbonate family is a unique grouping of amorphous materials that offer superior toughness among other physical property characteristics and enhancements.

TECANAT
This is Ensinger's standard machining grade polycarbonate. » Read more

Polyphenylene Oxide (PPO) - TECANYL®

This versatile product line exhibits a broad range of outstanding properties for applications in computers and business equipment, automotive, and many other industries.

TECANYL
TECANYL made from Sabic's Noryl resin, TECANYL exhibits unusually low moisture absorption and good insulating properties. » Read more

Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) - TECAFLON®

This is a highly chemically resistant crystalline thermoplastic that is used extensively in the chemical processing industry because of its property makeup which includes outstanding chemical and solvent resistance, good thermal stability. and low flammability.

TECAFLON PVDF
Polyvinylidene fluoride, or PVDF, is a fluorinated thermoplastic resin which has outstanding resistance to most mineral and organic acids, aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, halogenated solvents, and oxidizing environments. » Read more