Franlon™

Franlon™ is a family of thermoplastic materials offered by France Compressor Products. This family includes Torlon®, Vespel®, Nylon, PEI and other polymer base materials with fillers selected to enhance their performance when used for seal rings and valve discs in reciprocating compressors.

Thermoplastic sealing rings provide increased mechanical strength over other non-metallic materials at higher operating temperatures with reduction of wear and other damage if gas is contaminated with foreign material or liquid carryover during system upsets.

Compared to metal valve discs, a thermoplastic disc is lighter, has inherent dampening, and if failure occurs, will cause little or no damage to other components.

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