TPI is mainly used in aerospace, as well as in the electrical industry. TPI's applications include wire and cable insulation, high performance connectors and accessories, on-road and off-highway gearing washers. Also, gaskets, semiconductor plasma chamber components and containment systems, jet engine components, high temperature films, bearing cages, gears, diaphragms, stickshapes, and composites.
The advantages of AURUM ™ are the extremely high glass transition temperature (Tg) of 245°C and its outstanding mechanical and chemical properties across a wide range of temperatures. Compounders and other converter that are able to melt-process polymers at elevated temperatures can use AURUM ™ for performance washers, ball-bearing cages, dry bearings, seals and gears - where excellent mechanical & tribological properties and temperature resistance are paramount. It can be injection molded into structural parts, this is more economical compared to other processes such as thermosetting or machining. Powder coating of copper parts is one of the main applications as a thin, unique pinhole-free insulation layer is formed without toxic chemicals.
In addition, this thermoplastic polyimide powder AURUM ™ is usable for advanced coatings, and clean applications such as semiconductors due to trace amounts of outgas and metallic impurities. Used in aviation, automotive and other industries, AURUM ™ can be compounded and converted like any other thermoplastic.
To sum up, AURUM ™ is used in applications such as
- Washers
- Seal rings
- Bearings
- Pistons
- Structural components of aircraft engines
- Resin for CFRP
- Electric wire coating, powder coating
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