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Nylacast - premier material NYLUBE represents the next breakthrough in self-lubricated cast nylon and one which exhibits such impressive wear-resisting properties that further improvements would be difficult to justify.

Nylacast recognized the potential markets if a material as effective as cast nylon could be made to contain its own lubricant without the need for constant replenishment, and duly went on to develop NYLUBE.

NYLUBE can be used in the most highly stressed applications, for instance, wear pads as employed in the telescopic arm crane industry - an application where some polymers and composites have either shown unacceptable levels of wear or have failed completely, sometimes with dire consequences. NYLUBE has long since earned the complete confidence of the major manufacturers in this large and important industry and Nylacast now enjoys approximately 90% of the UK market for these components.

In addition to NYLUBE'S outstanding mechanical properties, its non toxic nature – being FDA compatible – may lead one to expect NYLUBE to be used extensively in what is accepted as the worlds largest industry, being of course food – with six billion consumers! Needless to say the number of uses for NYLUBE components is endless in this industry.

There is an endless stream of applications for such a versatile material as NYLUBE. A few more interesting ones include:

• Bearing supports for deep space telescopes
• Sabots for artillery ammunition
• Rigging pulleys on Whitbread round the world race yachts
• Wind turbine bearings
• Robot camera arm bearings in a space shuttle
• Bearings at the hot end of a nuclear reprocessing plant

In conclusion, Nylacast is able to recommend to you with the confidence of a ten year track record their premier material development –NYLUBE.