Giving Them The Boot
Polymer uses multiple processes to optimize customer solutions. Many customers use some combination of cast, molded, and machined parts for product assemblies. For example, Polymer produces 49 parts in 9 assemblies for a MRI system boot coil (29 cast, 14 molded, and 6 machined parts).
Customer advantages include:
• Single supplier to manage (minimizes administrative costs, provides one supplier interface, allows single supplier quality audits)
• Assures color match and that parts will fit when assembled
• Improves overall system quality
• Lowers overall cost and hassle to customer
Outstanding Defense Program Performance
Polymer is a sole source-supplier to a major defense contractor for lightweight thermal imaging combat weapon sight components. The program initially had complex product requirements that shifted continually as sights went into production on an extremely tight schedule. Polymer met every challenge, received an outstanding performance commendation, became an approved corporate supplier, and then was selected for two other programs in multiple divisions. We were named “best supplier” on one.
Polymer now is a designated “preferred supplier” for plastics corporate-wide.
An Amazing Underwater Discovery
In April 2011, sophisticated autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV’s), remotely controlled from the surface, located the wreckage of Air France flight 447, resting 13,000 feet (2½ miles) down in the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil. The depth pressure there was 400 atmospheres. This was an astounding technical feat. Polymer plastic parts were critical to that success.
Flying High
Polymer Corporation has made many different parts for commercial and private jet cabins. Overhead-luggage-bin and passenger-lighting-console components, window bezels, seat components, lavatory toilet seats, and more. Original equipment and aftermarket. These parts are made to demanding specifications and comply with stringent FAA requirements.
Modernizing The Power Grid
America’s aging electric grid infrastructure is straining to meet today’s electricity needs, such as in expanding renewable energy resources and increasing building and transportation electrification. Upgrading and extending the grid is a critical national priority. Polymer plays an important role in this effort. Our transmission line parts help reduce wildfires, lessen storm and wildlife damage, and improve circuit reliability. Our distribution line parts help deliver electricity to homes and businesses everywhere and meter its usage.
Waste Not
Wastewater treatment in the United States is facing a crisis. Many municipal treatment systems are seriously outdated or deteriorating, and thousands of plants are operating near or beyond capacity. Municipalities and homeowner groups are evaluating a number of approaches as they step up to address the problem. Pump parts and assemblies made by Polymer Corporation are key to a range of these solutions, both for gravity and pressure sewer systems.
