Hydlar®

Hydlar is a thermoplastic composite reinforced with Kevlar® aramid fiber. There are two grades available:

Hydlar Z (nylon/Kevlar composite) and Hydlar G (PPS/Kevlar composite.

Hydlar's top features offer:

• Superior wear resistance

• Virtually no abrasion to counter surfaces

• High use temperature

• Greatly improved mechanical properties

• Outstanding machinability

• High P.V. limit

Hydlar possesses a combination of physical properties that cannot be found in any other commercially available product.  Using Hydlar composites, design engineers have created a new family of superior wear and abrasion resistant thermoplastics to choose from.

Ordinary thermoplastic composites attain low wear rates by using reinforcement that adds to their strength and/or stiffness. But most, however, also show correspondingly high abrasiveness to counter surface. Hydlar thermoplastic composites are the exception. Hydlar's tough, strong reinforcing material makes the end product extremely wear resistant without excessive galling to mating wear surface. In addition Hydlar improves mechanical properties and increases surface temperature capabilities.

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