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Vespel® Parts & Shapes

Meet the Challenge With Vespel® Parts and Shapes

Vespel® parts and shapes provide high-performance solutions for the toughest sealing, wear, or friction challenges.

DuPont™ Vespel® parts and shapes are formed by the needs of each customer. Their properties help overcome severe sealing, wear, or friction challenges, endure high temperature, and stand up to some of the world’s harshest operating environments.

With design centers of excellence in Asia, Europe and the Americas, DuPont combines material science with unique collaborative design resources for customers. Vespel® parts and shapes, both custom and stock, have been tested and proven effective in highly demanding applications around the globe.

Vespel® parts and shapes can keep production running more smoothly, improve throughputs, and extend service intervals. The performance of Vespel® parts can also make lighter-weight parts not only practical, but better than standard metal, ceramics and even other engineering plastics.

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For Vespel® Custom Parts, DuPont engineers work with part designers to customize the production method and material for desired end-use results. DuPont engineers may recommend fabricating a finished part from Authentic Vespel® stock shapes for prototypes, small quantities or complex geometries.

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Innovation using Kalrez® & Vespel®
Video highlights how the Kalrez® and Vespel® business helps deliver innovative solutions with high performance materials.
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Animation of polyimide and elastomer parts in demanding aircraft engine locations
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USES AND APPLICATIONS

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Vespel® in Automotive Parts
High Pressure Seals for Oil & Gas Upstream Equipment & Valves
Centrifugal Pump Parts
Material Handling Equipment
DuPont™ Vespel® parts have a unique combination of properties that can replace metal, PEEK or ceramic parts in material handling equipment with high temperatures, high wear or no lubrication.
Aircraft Engine and Reverser Parts

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Vespel® Stock Shapes
Vespel® Custom Plastic Parts
Vespel® S Family
Vespel® S products are highly durable polyimides used in demanding applications where exceptional thermal resistance (cryogenic to 349°C), low wear and/or low friction, strength and impact resistance are desired as custom parts or stock shapes.
Vespel® CR Product Family
Vespel® ASB Assemblies
Vespel® ASB assemblies include fiber/fabric reinforced composites with metal backing that offer low wear & friction plus self lubrication, and metal-backed carbon-graphites for self-lubricating wear at extreme temperatures.
Vespel® CP Product Family
Vespel® CP parts offer an array of fiber or fabric reinforced composites for a range of unique design needs when wear and strength are key. Typically CP parts are used in aircraft bushings, washers, bumpers and seals.
Vespel® TP Family
Vespel® TP thermoplastic family offers many products with excellent strength and toughness, dimensional stability, low outgassing, creep resistance, and low coefficient of thermal expansion for aircraft, automotive and industrial applications.
Mitsui AURUM® TPI resin
A melt-processable, thermoplastic polyimide resin that lends itself to injection molding and extrusion. Offering continuous use temperatures to 240°C (464°F), AURUM® parts exhibit low outgassing, superior radiation resistance, excellent wear performance and resistance to chemicals. AURUM® TPI is a registered trademark of Mitsui, Inc

CASE STUDIES

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Ball Transfer Units For Panel Makers
ISB and the DuPont™ Vespel® team collaborated to create high-performance ball transfer units for cleanroom environments essential to flat-panel display and solar panel assembly.
Vespel® CR-6100 Boiler Pumps
Vespel® SP-21 Thrust Washers
Bushings in New EGR Valve
Vespel® Take-Out Inserts
Line Shaft Bearings for Pumps
Glass Handling Sweep-Out Fingers
Vespel® SCP-5050 sweep-out fingers and stacker bar inserts for glass handling help increase plant reliability and efficiency and reduce operating costs at Veda-Pack glass manufacturing sites
Vespel® Case Rings Boost Pump Efficiency and Safety
The operator of a pipeline in the Southwestern U.S. was searching for a case ring material for pumps that would enable improved operating efficiency, increase equipment reliability and avoid the seizing or galling problems encountered with metal components. The metal components were replaced with Vespel® CR-6100 parts, and the results were impressive.
Vespel® Thrust Bearings for EGR Valve
Hub Bushings For Copiers
Hub bushings designed using DuPont™ Vespel® and Minlon® keep copiers running smoothly.

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