UP&R collaborates actively with its customers to define and respond to the application goals and operating environment for their polymer parts:
- Application Goals
- Sealing fluids
- Conducting fluids
- Storing energy
- Absorbing energy
- Operating Environment
- Temperature range
- Material exposures (oils, fuels, coolants, ozone, solvents, etc.)
- Radiant exposures (heat, sunlight, UV, oxidation, etc.)
- Forces encountered (load-determined or deflection-determined)
- Impact, Abrasion, Tear, Cut Growth
- Pressures present
- Electrical non-conductivity