Acetal
Shop for Acetal sheets, rods, and tubes. Best known as Delrin®, acetal comes in homopolymer, copolymer, and filled options. Grades include copolymer, homopolymer, homopolymer filled bearing grade, glass-filled, food grade, and metal and x-ray detectable, and static dissipative. Have acetal cut and machined into fabricated parts for your application.
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Buy Acetal - Stocked, Cut, Shipped, and Fabricated from Curbell Plastics
Buy acetal now with our easy, secure checkout. Enter custom-cuts or cut-to-size when ordering. No minimums required. Volume discounts available for large commercial orders. Stocked acetal materials typically ship in 2-5 business days. Can’t find what you need? Get a quote.
What is Acetal?
Acetal (polyoxymethylene or POM) is a high strength, low friction, semi-crystalline engineering plastic with low moisture absorption. It has excellent wear and abrasion properties in both wet and dry environments. Easy to machine, acetal makes an outstanding choice for applications that require complex, tight tolerances.
What is the difference between acetal homopolymer Delrin® and acetal copolymer?
Homopolymer acetal Delrin®– has superior room temperature strength, stiffness, and toughness.
Copolymer acetal– has excellent performance in continuous high heat and hot water environments. It also tends to have less porosity than homopolymer acetal.
Why should I choose one acetal material over the other?
Delrin® 150– is the standard homopolymer acetal grade. It is available in a variety of colors.
Delrin® 511P– is a homopolymer acetal that offers enhanced crystallization characteristics. This higher level of crystallization helps to augment aspects of the physical properties such as fatigue strength, stiffness, and creep resistance.
Delrin® 100AF Blend, Delrin® AF DE588, and TECAFORM® HPV13– are homopolymer filled acetal enhanced bearing and wear grades.
Delrin® 570– is a glass-filled grade acetal that offers enhanced strength and stiffness.
Need a grade of acetal you don’t see here?
FDA compliant, metal detectable, and x-ray detectable grades are available. Ask a plastics expert or get a quote.
How chemically resistant is acetal?
Acetal plastics are chemically resistant to many fuels and solvents. View our comprehensive list of the chemical resistance of acetal.
What are common brands of acetal?
Acetal is also known as Delrin®, SUSTARIN®, TECAFORM®, and Acetron®.
What are common acetal applications?
Acetal is widely used for bearings and bushings, pump and valve parts, manifolds, gears, food processing and packaging machinery parts, wear pads, wear strips, and many other applications.
Acetal Standard Sizes, Cut-to-Size, and Fabrication
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Acetal sheet thicknesses– 0.031 in, 0.062 in, 0.125 in, 0.187 in, 0.250 in, 0.312 in, 0.375 in, 0.500 in, 0.625 in, 0.750 in, 0.875 in, 1 in, 1.250 in, 1.500 in, 1.750 in, 2 in, 2.250 in, 2.500 in, 2.750 in, 3 in, 3.250 in, 3.500 in, 3.750 in, 4 in, 5 in, 6 in
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Acetal sheet sizes– 6 in x 12 in, 12 in x 12 in, 12 in x 24 in, 12 in x 48 in, 24 in x 24 in, 24 in x 48 in, 48 in x 96 in, 48 in x 120 in. Need acetal rectangular bar or strips? Purchase a larger sheet size and have it cut into 1 in x 48 in, 2 in x 48 in, or any other size you require.
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Acetal rod sizes– diameter 0.187 in - 6 in, length 1 ft, 4 ft, 5 ft, 8 ft, and 10 ft
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Acetal tube sizes– outside diameter 25 mm - 230 mm, inside diameter 15 mm - 190 mm, length 1 ft, 5 ft, and 10 ft
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Acetal colors– Acetal is available in colors including black, blue, brown, natural (white), green, fluorescent green, fluorescent pink, orange, purple, red, and yellow.
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Cut-to-Size and Fabrication– Looking for acetal sheets cut-to-size for easy shipping or to meet your specific application requirements? Buy it online and choose your cut dimensions or ask about our acetal fabrication services.
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Acetal samples– Buy acetal sheet online as small as 6 in x 12 and 12 in x 12 in. Perfect for sample use. Available now for easy purchase with a credit card.
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