{"id":1418,"date":"2019-11-20T13:37:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2024-09-03T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:37:58","slug":"material-nylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/","title":{"rendered":"Material of the month: Nylon"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE MANY FORMS OF NYLON<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nylon has come a long way since the bristles of the mid-1930\u2019s toothbrush, silk stockings and the first parachutes.\u00a0 In 1942, daredevil parachutist Adeline Gray, aged just 24, jumped out of a plane with a nylon parachute, rather than the more familiar silk or cotton, making herself a household name as the first person to test nylon.<\/p>\n

Also known as polyamides (PA), nylons vary massively in grade and price.\u00a0 <\/span>Deciding on which grade suits the individual application boils down to discussing and assessing each individual project, application, regulatory requirements and environment.<\/p>\n

PROS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00b7<\/span><\/span> \u00a0 Vast range available:\u00a0 This means that nylon suits many applications.
\n\u00b7<\/span><\/span> \u00a0 Chemical resistance: Because of nylon\u2019s resistance to grease and oils and its capacity \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 to withstand general wear and abrasion, we use it for many of the automotive filters \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 that we plastic injection mould.
\n\u00b7<\/span><\/span> \u00a0 Rigidity: \u00a0Kettle and tumble dryer filters, as well as many of the filters you and I use day to day have plastic injection moulded frames made from nylon.
\n\u00b7<\/span><\/span> \u00a0 Strength and flexibility: There are a variety of strengths available so some grades offer fantastic strength and flexibility.\u00a0 Think cable ties.
\n\u00b7<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Die-cast alternative: Glass-loaded nylon can be used as an alternative to traditional die casting as it is cheaper and lighter.<\/p>\n

CONS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00b7<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Low impact strength (some grades).
\n\u00b7<\/span> <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 Susceptible to UV degradation (additives & colours can help).
\n\u00b7<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 Hydroscopic, Moisture (or lack of) can affect size and mechanical properties.<\/p>\n

With over 40 years\u2019 experience we can offer customers advice on what types of materials have worked well on projects in the past and can suggest materials which adhere to certain properties, legislation and drawings etc, tapping into our network of well-established and trusted suppliers to source the correct material and confirm with data sheets.<\/p>\n

Paul, who heads up our design and innovation explains, \u201cultimately it\u2019s up to us ask the right questions at the outset and find out what the client needs, where the product is going and what legislation requirements we must adhere to, then we can set to work finding out which material and if it\u2019s nylon, which grade of nylon is the one to use.<\/em><\/p>\n

As an example, we have used Nylon 12 for under the bonnet automotive fuel filter moulding as part of a fuel system because it\u2019s well suited to that environment.\u00a0 We are particularly proud to have applied our filter encapsulation and material expertise to help the automotive industry ensure modern diesel engines significantly reduce their diesel emissions<\/a> and therefore meet required emission standards.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, this particular grade may not be suitable for everyone as it\u2019s relatively expensive with some jobs requiring a more economical grade i.e. Nylon 6.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Did you know?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The flags left on the moon, by the Apollo astronauts, were made of Nylon.<\/p>\n

If you think nylon might be the right material for your new product, filter or innovation but you\u2019re unsure which grade to choose, do get in touch, we\u2019re happy to help.\u00a0 Simply call 01425 613131 or email hello@becgroup.com<\/a> \u00a0– we love talking nylons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nylon offers a vast range of uses from under the bonnet automotive filters to parachutes.. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-material-of-the-month","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nMaterial of the month: Nylon - Pros and Cons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BEC reviews the pros and cons of using nylon for your next product. Good for automotive filters and many other products, contact us for help.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Material of the month: Nylon - Pros and Cons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BEC reviews the pros and cons of using nylon for your next product. Good for automotive filters and many other products, contact us for help.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BEC Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-20T13:37:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-03T13:37:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-from-rawpixel-id-440564_Nylon-parachute_resized.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"799\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"clare.elvy@googlemail.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@becgroup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@becgroup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"clare.elvy@googlemail.com\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Material of the month: Nylon - Pros and Cons","description":"BEC reviews the pros and cons of using nylon for your next product. Good for automotive filters and many other products, contact us for help.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Material of the month: Nylon - Pros and Cons","og_description":"BEC reviews the pros and cons of using nylon for your next product. Good for automotive filters and many other products, contact us for help.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/","og_site_name":"BEC Group","article_published_time":"2019-11-20T13:37:13+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-09-03T13:37:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":799,"url":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-from-rawpixel-id-440564_Nylon-parachute_resized.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"clare.elvy@googlemail.com","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@becgroup","twitter_site":"@becgroup","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"clare.elvy@googlemail.com","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/"},"author":{"name":"clare.elvy@googlemail.com","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c3a0b3e4705a9a1c014ec415f7ecb26e"},"headline":"Material of the month: Nylon","datePublished":"2019-11-20T13:37:13+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-03T13:37:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/"},"wordCount":510,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-from-rawpixel-id-440564_Nylon-parachute_resized.jpg","articleSection":["Material of the month","News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/","url":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/","name":"Material of the month: Nylon - Pros and Cons","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-from-rawpixel-id-440564_Nylon-parachute_resized.jpg","datePublished":"2019-11-20T13:37:13+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-03T13:37:58+00:00","description":"BEC reviews the pros and cons of using nylon for your next product. Good for automotive filters and many other products, contact us for help.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-from-rawpixel-id-440564_Nylon-parachute_resized.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-from-rawpixel-id-440564_Nylon-parachute_resized.jpg","width":1200,"height":799},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/news\/material-nylon\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Material of the month: Nylon"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/","name":"BEC Group","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#organization","name":"BEC Group","url":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BEC-Organisation-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BEC-Organisation-logo.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"caption":"BEC Group"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/becgroup","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/becgroupuk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c3a0b3e4705a9a1c014ec415f7ecb26e","name":"clare.elvy@googlemail.com","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"clare.elvy@googlemail.com"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}