In today's super-competitive era, reducing cost of ownership on a continuous basis is necessary to remain competitive and, in some cases, even remain in business. In the plastic materials arena, there are so many choices of plastics and different grades of plastics that it can be daunting to select the most cost effective plastic. That is why often "safe" choices of well known high performance plastics such as PEEK and Vespel are chosen even if the operating environment of the plastic does not necessarily require the top of the line plastic....
