VICTREX® PEEK(TM) Polymer Replaces Metal in USB Drive Connectors Lowering Overall Manufacturing Costs
West Conshohocken, PA - (January 7, 2008) - InnoDisk Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan, one of the world's leading suppliers of industrial flash storage devices, has replaced the metal shell and rubber core of its current USB drive connectors with VICTREX® PEEK(TM) polymer, a high performance thermoplastic, because of the polymer's design flexibility and ability to help lower the overall manufacturing costs.
While metal connectors are commonly used by the electronics and computer industries for almost all USB-connected devices, InnoDisk President, Richard Lee, believes that "Substituting VICTREX PEEK polymer for metal gives us greater design flexibility and a shorter time to market, thus lowering the overall product cost. By integrating the metal connectors and the rubber cores of the USB drive into a one-piece design, we can greatly minimize the complexity of manufacturing and reduce the product weight."
As the highest-performing melt-processable polymer available in the market, VICTREX PEEK polymer provides electronic components with an exceptional combination of benefits including wear resistance, strength, dimensional stability, high temperature resistance and fatigue resistance. "These properties make VICTREX PEEK polymer an ideal substitute for metal in USB connectors," explained Lee. "Durability, reliability, temperature resistance, and stability are all critical to the quality of USB drives. With VICTREX PEEK polymer's great performance and superior physical and chemical properties, we expect to shorten our time to market for our USB drive cards and to provide customers with more durable and reliable storage media to meet their design needs."
VICTREX PEEK polymer is increasingly being adopted and appraised by leading companies in the electronic component industry said Gary Li, Country Manager of Victrex Taiwan who believes USB connectors made with VICTREX PEEK polymer can potentially revolutionize the USB device, as well as other storage media. He added "The fact that InnoDisk chose VICTREX PEEK polymer not only proves the excellent qualities and high-performing physical and chemical properties of the material, products, it also demonstrates Victrex's ability to help our customers differentiate their products."
VICTREX PEEK polymer is a high performance thermoplastic whose unique combination of properties can be customized to meet the growing demands of various industry applications including electronics, semiconductor, automotive and industrial. VICTREX PEEK offers numerous mechanical benefits traditionally associated with metal parts and at the same time can enable improved part performance, higher design freedom, reduction in system cost and creation of differentiated application.
Victrex USA, Inc., a division of Victrex plc, is the sole manufacturer and supplier of VICTREX PEEK polymer worldwide. For more information, please call (800) VICTREX or visit the Victrex website at www.victrex.com.
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