Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene has many excellent properties, and it has shown great advantages in the high-performance fiber market, from mooring ropes in offshore oil fields to high-performance lightweight composite materials.
1. Due to its excellent self-lubricating and non-stickiness properties, Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene can be used as a lining for trailers, silos, and chutes for loading coal, lime, cement, mineral powder, salt, grain, etc. It can make the above-mentioned powder materials not adhere to the storage and transportation facilities, and guarantee the safety and stability.
2. Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene could be also used for liquid-supporting pipelines such as flowing sand. Compared with other pipelines, the outstanding features are as follows: the life expectancy is increased by 18 times compared with the bamboo tube, and the cost is reduced to 1/25 and the life expectancy is increased by 3 times compared with the nylon tube and the cost is reduced to 1/8.
3. In the areas of linings of chutes, buckets and ore compartments, when using traditional non-metallic materials, the items will be thawed on non-metal in cold and humid weather, but the high-molecular polyethylene sheets will never, which greatly reduces the cost of unloading. After lining a layer of high-molecular-weight polyethylene sheet on the self-unloading leaker of the bulk carrier, the average unloading time was reduced from the original 16-20h to 8h.
4. It can also be made into ropes, cables, sails and fishing gears, which are suitable for marine engineering. The break length of the material under self-weight is 8 times that of steel rope and twice that of aramid. The rope can be used as fixed anchor ropes for supertankers, marine operating platforms, lighthouses, etc., which solves the corrosion and meshing problem of the ropes encountered in the past.
5. In industry, it can be used as pressure-resistant containers, conveyor belts, filter materials, automobile buffer boards, etc. In addition, it can be used as wall, partition structure, etc., and it can also be used to strengthen cement composite materials and improve the toughness of cement.
Due to its excellent wear and impact resistance properties, it is widely used in the mechanical manufacturing industry to produce a variety of mechanical parts, such as gears, cams, impellers, rollers, pulleys, bearings, bushings, bushings, shafts, washers, gaskets, elastic couplings, and screws etc.
6. In sports, superior to traditional materials, it can be used to make helmets, snowboards, sail boards, fishing rods, rackets and bicycles, gliders, ultra-lightweight aircraft parts, etc.
7. In medicine, it can be used in the fields of tray materials, medical implants and plastic sutures. Due to its biocompatibility, durability, high stability, no allergies, it has been widely used in clinical areas, including medical gloves and other medical measures.