Engineering materials make it possible
From small components to largescale structural applications, engineering materials from Mitsubishi Chemical Group exhibit performance, versatility, and reliability. Explore how our advanced thermoplastics and composites make even the most ambitious engineering projects possible.
As your partner in possibilities, we leverage our extensive industry expertise and comprehensive portfolio of engineering materials to take your project from initial design to finished product.
Whether you’re replacing troublesome metal parts, designing an innovative new component, or looking to reduce the climate impact of a product throughout its lifecycle, Mitsubishi Chemical Group can provide the materials, design support, and production capabilities to bring your engineering project to life.
Read on to learn more about the breakthrough solutions made possible by our engineering materials.
From raw materials to scrap collection and recycling, our Composites Toolbox helps to bring market-driving, scalable innovations to life across a range of industries and previously unfeasible applications.
We partner with OEMs and engineers, giving them the tools they need to successfully replace traditional materials with cost-effective, future-ready carbon fiber composite materials.
We partner with OEMs across industries to deliver end-to-end solutions to today’s most pressing engineering challenges. Discover how we’ve helped get ambitious ideas to market, fast.
Our advanced polymers improve performance in many industries, replacing heavy, costly, and underperforming materials to enable improved operations and greater reliability. See how they’ve improved the performance of common machinery components in wide-ranging operating environments.
Bushings and bearings are mechanical components that reduce friction between other moving parts, facilitating motion and preventing premature wear.
Our advanced engineering materials help eliminate common challenges across applications using bushings and bearings, including noise reduction, self-lubrication, and more reliable wear behavior.
In bulk materials handling, linings help reduce friction between the material being transported and the beds, chutes, and storage facilities that it comes into contact with.
From parcel distribution to bulk raw materials handling, our custom lining offering helps enable and improve mass flow. Our advanced plastic linings include self-lubricating and abrasion resistant materials, improving performance and reducing blockages and downtime.
Valve seals, labyrinth seals, valve seat inserts, gaskets, and other sealing components are essential to ensuring engineering parts and machines function properly, preventing leaks and unsecure closures.
Our advanced polymers provide reliable seals across applications in many industries, and our portfolio includes materials designed for superior function in many different conditions.
Gear components transmit rotary motion from one location to another, and they are essential to mechanical operation in many applications.
From saltwater submersion to power steering applications, we support customers in the design and manufacture of plastic gears that exhibit corrosion resistance, dimensional stability on machining and operation, noise abatement, and resistance to wear – even in harsh environments.
Valves control the flow of liquids, gases, and other fluids through infrastructure like pipes, holds, and other enclosures.
Our advanced polymers help solve common challenges in valve applications, including swelling due to moisture absorption, slippage to do abrasion, and part failure due to wear.
Wear pads and wear strips are used to protect equipment, improve sliding properties, and ensure safety in a wide range of machinery applications – especially those involving heavy loads.
Our advanced wear-resistant polymers exhibit high strength, low coefficients of friction, and self-lubricating properties. Their superior wear performance makes them excellent alternatives to traditional materials, extending service life of wear pads, strips, and plates, and improving safety.
Wear resistance
Our wear-resistant plastics outperform metals in load bearing and friction applications and resolve a number of common engineering issues, such as inhibiting mechanical wear and damage, preventing contamination, reducing noise, and extending the mean time between repair.
Dimensional stability
Even when exposed to high temperatures, moisture, and mechanical stress, our range of dimensionally stable thermoplastics retain their shape and performance integrity, enabling cost-savings when compared to metal components.
Chemical resistance
Our range of chemical-resistant plastics can withstand even the most aggressive environmental conditions or sterilization processes, retaining their mechanical properties without added surface protection.
Autoclavability
Despite constant exposure to hot water or repeated steam sterilization cycles, our range of autoclavable plastics retain their mechanical properties and dimensions, making them excellent candidates for use in medical devices or operating environments involving steam.
High-temperature resistance
For continuous operation at elevated service temperatures, our extensive range of high-heat thermoplastic materials exhibits superior short- and long-term thermal stability, thermal insulation, flame retardancy, and resistance to radiation.
Weight reduction
For all the performance at a fraction of the weight, thermoplastics and composites offer compelling productivity gains and cost savings compared with metals, opening new doors for design freedom.
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