Modern engineering applications often demand multiple performance characteristics from a single material. POKETONE™ is designed to meet these challenges by combining high mechanical strength with excellent wear resistance, low moisture absorption, outstanding chemical resistance, and excellent processing characteristics. Whether replacing conventional engineering plastics or improving component durability, POKETONE™ provides manufacturers with greater design flexibility and long-term reliability.
Why choose POKETONE™?
Hyosung portfolio available through Omya Performance Polymer Distribution:
POKETONE™ polyketone (PK)
POKETONE™ from Hyosung is the world's first commercially available polyketone, combining exceptional mechanical performance with excellent chemical resistance, wear resistance, and long-term durability. Its unique balance of strength, toughness, resilience, and dimensional stability makes it suitable for demanding applications including automotive components, water meters, water purification systems, medical devices, industrial equipment, pipes, films, toys, gears, bearings, and fluid handling components.
The material's outstanding fatigue resistance and high elongation before permanent deformation make it particularly well suited to snap-fit assemblies and dynamic mechanical components where flexibility and long service life are critical.
Hyosung's POKETONE™ enable's innovative products across a wide range of industries:
- Automotive and mobility
Fuel system components, gears, bearings, clips, bushings, chain guides, fluid handling systems, and under-the-hood components requiring excellent wear resistance, chemical resistance, and dimensional stability. - Industrial
Machinery components, conveyor systems, rollers, gears, bearings, valves, pumps, compressors, and precision engineering parts operating under demanding mechanical conditions. - Electrical and electronics
Connectors, switches, housings, electrical mechanisms, and engineering components requiring dimensional stability, durability, and reliable long-term performance. - Consumer goods
Household appliances, sporting goods, power tools, mechanical assemblies, and consumer products requiring toughness, wear resistance, and long service life. - Building and construction
Plumbing systems, fluid handling components, valves, fittings, and infrastructure applications requiring chemical resistance and mechanical durability. - Medical and healthcare
Medical devices, healthcare equipment, fluid handling systems, diagnostic components, and regulated applications benefiting from POKETONE™'s non-toxic, biocompatible formulation and FDA and NSF approvals. - Water management and infrastructure
Water meters, water purification systems, valves, fittings, fluid handling equipment, plumbing components, and infrastructure products requiring long-term chemical resistance, dimensional stability, and durability.
Contact Omya Performance Polymer Distribution
Contact Omya Performance Polymer Distribution to discuss grade selection and application support.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
POKETONE™ is Hyosung's advanced polyketone engineering polymer, developed to deliver outstanding wear resistance, impact strength, chemical resistance, and dimensional stability across a wide range of demanding applications.
POKETONE™ offers a unique combination of high mechanical strength, exceptional toughness, excellent abrasion resistance, and outstanding chemical resistance in a single material. Its unusually high elongation before permanent deformation enables repeated flexing without failure, making it ideal for snap-fit assemblies and dynamic engineering components. Combined with FDA and NSF approvals and excellent wear performance, POKETONE™ provides engineers with a versatile solution for applications where conventional engineering plastics may not offer the same balance of properties.
POKETONE™ combines excellent mechanical performance with very low moisture absorption, exceptional wear resistance, and outstanding chemical resistance. These characteristics make it an excellent alternative for applications requiring long-term durability and dimensional precision.
POKETONE™ is widely used across automotive and mobility, industrial equipment, electrical and electronics, consumer goods, and building and construction applications where reliable mechanical performance and wear resistance are critical.
Yes. POKETONE™ offers an excellent balance of strength, toughness, and wear resistance, enabling manufacturers to replace metal in selected applications while reducing weight and improving corrosion resistance.
Yes. POKETONE™ demonstrates excellent resistance to a wide range of chemicals, fuels, and lubricants, making it suitable for demanding automotive and industrial environments.
Omya Performance Polymer Distribution works closely with customers and Hyosung's technical specialists to evaluate where POKETONE™ can deliver the greatest performance benefits. Our team provides guidance on application development, material selection, and processing to help manufacturers maximize product performance and manufacturing efficiency.