Advantage: Polystar
Polystar’s expertise in rapid prototyping gives OEMs the opportunity to evaluate multiple iterations of a product quickly to identify the optimal makeup for a particular application. We can rapidly produce prototypes using varied materials, pore sizes, porosity levels, and form factors. Beyond this, Polystar offers sintered porous PE, PTFE, PVDF, PEI, PP, PES, PEEK, and PA, while many porous plastics suppliers work only with PE. This versatility makes Polystar one of the few capable of producing optimized components for discriminating OEMs with exacting material specs.
Polystar’s expertise in rapid prototyping gives OEMs the opportunity to evaluate multiple iterations of a product quickly to identify the optimal makeup for a particular application. We can rapidly produce prototypes using varied materials, pore sizes, porosity levels, and form factors. Beyond this, Polystar offers sintered porous PE, PTFE, PVDF, PEI, PP, PES, PEEK, and PA, while many porous plastics suppliers work only with PE. This versatility makes Polystar one of the few capable of producing optimized components for discriminating OEMs with exacting material specs.
Sintered Porous Plastics
Sintered porous plastics are semi-rigid, open-cell, porous materials. Finished products appear to be solid, but actually consists of microscopic, interconnected pores. The interstitial spaces make the material permeable to fluids. Permeability and porosity can both be adjusted, and the products can be used as filtering, wicking, venting, or diffusing agents.
Average pore sizes range from 3 microns to 350+ microns, with exceptional filtration efficiencies due to the tortuous paths of the porous microstructures. Typical void volumes range from 40-60% but 30%, to as much as 70%, can be achieved.
Pore size and void volume affect how well a porous media will vent, diffuse, filter, or serve as a type of barrier protection. Additionally, pore size and void volume will affect how permeable that media will be to fluids, and how water resistant that material will be in different environments.
Markets
Regardless of the industry or market sector, the need for filtration, venting, diffusion, wicking, shutoff, absorption or adsorption solutions is common. Polystar Technologies partners with design engineers and researchers across a wide spectrum of industries to find solutions for all types of requirements.
Applications
We will collaborate with you to consider the pros and cons of various types of polymers, pore sizes, treatments or dimensional requirements that solve your unique product requirements.
Polystar Technologies’ sintered, microporous thermoplastic media provide solutions for all types of applications, including: wicking, filtration, diffusion, fluid delivery, barrier venting, and acoustic dampening.
Materials
Polystar Technologies carefully engineers and controls pore size and void volume through consultation with our customers, selection of specific polymers and process control. Our sintered porous plastics can be manufactured from a wide variety of polymers including:
Polystar Technologies carefully engineers and controls pore size and void volume through consultation with our customers, selection of specific polymers and process control. Our sintered porous plastics can be manufactured from a wide variety of polymers including:
What our customers are saying
Polystar has had 100% on-time delivery and zero defects this past year. You’re a great supplier for us – and you’re getting the job done.
Where Polystar really shines is your ability to handle the jobs that others cannot do… stuff that doesn’t fit into the boxes that your competitors work in. What sets you apart are the form factors you come up with, your creativity, and your ability to effectively bridge the gap between performance and cost.
We’re incredibly pleased with Polystar from development to fulfillment!
Thanks for your flexibility and support. We’re seeing a lot of growth right now that’s been really difficult to forecast. But Polystar has been willing to go above and beyond to help us meet demand when we’re in a bind.
Polystar has maintained high quality standards on all parts, been responsive, and in summary, easy to work with. These have been essential supplier traits for fast prototyping and product development.
You all jumped in after our previous supplier abruptly cut us off, and we have really appreciated that. You’ve always been responsive and attentive to our needs, and the direct lines of communication really helped ensure a smooth transition for us.
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