Material in the spotlight: Ertalon/Polyamide

Plastics come in many varieties; each type provides the ideal solution for different challenges. The possibilities and applications are virtually endless. Lakwijk Kunststoffen is your guide in the world of plastics. From time to time, we highlight a specific material. This time, it is Ertalon.

Ertalon 6SA offers an optimal combination of mechanical strength and damping, stiffness, impact resistance and wear resistance. These properties, combined with excellent electrical insulating performance and good chemical resistance, make Ertalon 6SA a universal material for industrial construction and maintenance.

Ertalon 6PLA is a cast variant of Ertalon 6SA and shows many similarities. Ertalon 6PLA combines high mechanical strength, stiffness and hardness with good creep resistance, wear resistance, heat-aging resistance and machinability.

Advantages of Ertalon:

• High mechanical strength, stiffness, hardness and toughness

• Good fatigue resistance

• High mechanical damping capacity

• Good sliding and emergency running properties

• Excellent wear resistance

• Good electrical insulating properties

• High resistance to high-energy radiation (gamma & X-rays)

• Good machinability

• Food-grade

Ertalon is an excellent candidate for components such as gears, pulley wheels, rollers, guides and bearing parts.