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Quality, environment, aerospace and food contact: four areas in PTFE component manufacturing, managed through a common approach.

In the food industry, selecting food-grade materials is essential to ensure safety, regulatory compliance, and long-term reliability.

The Artemis II mission has brought renewed attention to a major challenge: managing liquid hydrogen under extreme cryogenic conditions.

The performance of PEEK semi-finished products depends on quality, dimensional stability, and consistent production availability over time.

Metal replacement: high-performance polymers combine thermal, chemical, and mechanical strength with light weight, low friction, and corrosion resistance.

What is injection molding? What are its benefits and when is it used?

What material to use? After deciding to rely on 3D printing technology for the production of technical components, this is certainly the first question that could come to your mind.

3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is becoming more and more popular in the industrial field and the demand for parts produced with this technology is constantly growing thanks to the many advantages it can provide.

For cryogenic applications, where the engineering requirements are too high for standard polymers, Victrex designed two high-performance PEEK polymers, VICTREX CT™100 and CT™200, and Fluorten took part in the testing process.

Victrex has designed two high-performance PEEK polymers, VICTREX CT™100 e CT™200, to offer the cryogenics industry sealing solutions with a broader range of usage and that are suitable for dynamic sealing applications where gases such as LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) are stored and transported at cryogenic temperatures (-150°C to -200°C).

We use innovative latest generation 3D printers, produced by our technical partner ROBOZE, to create technical components both with base polymers - in which we are market leaders - and high performance polymers.

We are compliant with the EN 9100:2018 standard (equivalent to AS9100D - JISQ 9100-2016)

Fluorten announces that, in addition to the Norsok M-710 Ed.3 standard for high performance materials for use in the Oil & Gas industry, based on F10PTFE and in F10HPP - High performance polymers, called F10-XX, it has also been awarded API 6A approval.

Fluorten has been awarded, for specific materials in PTFE and HPP - High Performance Polymers, certification in compliance with the GMP regulation issued on 24 February 2017 by the authority DNV-GL.

Fluorten is awarded the prestigious Statement of Approval No AW/0645 as certified supplier by AgustaWestland.