Polystar Technologies

Polystar Technologies provides research teams, design engineers, and manufacturers worldwide with customized, precision-molded, sintered porous plastic solutions.

We will provide your team with personalized customer service and utilize PolySmart™, our proprietary manufacturing process to save you time and resources. Our industry leading commitment to clients, and our drive for premium product quality ensure we will deliver precisely what you need.

Customized Solutions

We partner with customers ranging from small startups to major multinationals. We’ll collaborate with you every step of the process, from ideation and proof of concept to commercialization. With our technological expertise and innovative execution, we will optimize your component’s design and construction.

PRECISE

As a custom contract manufacturer, Polystar closely adheres to customer specifications. With our superior design capabilities and PolySmart™ manufacturing process, we offer optimal flexibility to meet the most challenging designs and functions. The result is precise, premium quality, porous plastic components created to your exacting specifications for materials, dimensions, pore size, and void volume.

REPEATABLE

Polystar Technologies is an ISO 9001:2015 certified supplier with documented, traceable processes, ensuring the supply of superior, continuously reproducible products.

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:

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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.

Pete

Fortune 500 Fluidic Systems Manufacturer

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.

Tom

Analytical Instrumentation Sector

We’re incredibly pleased with Polystar from development to fulfillment!

Senior VP

Life Sciences Firm

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.

Ron

Supply Chain Management, Medical Research Sector

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.

Kyle

R&D Scientist, Biosciences Sector

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.

Sr. Supply Chain Manager, CGT Sector