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HOW I-ROD COMPARES WITH IMITATORS ®

Imitators of I-Rod® primarily Elastic I-Rod® stronger at any temperature

use UHMWPE (ultra high modulus
I-Rod® is superior to the imposter materials throughout the
molecular weight polyeth- 1,000
entire range from extreme cold to extreme heat .
ylene) or PTFE (polytetraflu- ksi
oroethylene, known as
Teflon®) for their pipe
supports, which are much 800
less durable than the I-Rod® I-Rod® HT I-Rod® PEEK
materials used by authentic
I-Rod® (I-Rod®, I-Rod® HT
and I-Rod® PEEK). The graph 600
shows that the complex
STRONGER

elastic modulus (stiffness) of

I-Rod® handily outperforms
400
both competitors’ materials
across all temperature
ranges. I-Rod® has excellent PTFE
WARMER
compressive strength 200
performance in the cryogenic
range down to liquid nitrogen
UHMWPE
temperatures, where a
third-party test revealed no 0
cracking of I-Rod® under -50ºC 0ºC 50ºC 100ºC
typical rated loads.

I-Rod® performance below 85ºC I-Rod® HT performance above 85ºC

The complex elastic modulus (stiffness) of I-Rod® beats We recommend I-Rod® HT above 850C, which is rated to
both imitators’ materials across all temperature ranges. 1750C and greatly outperforms the imposter materials.
Elastic Elastic
modulus modulus
1,000 500
ksi ksi I-Rod® HT
I-Rod
I-Rod
®®HT
800 400

600 300
UHMWPE
UHMWPE
400 200
PTFE PTFE

200 100

0 0
-50ºC 0ºC 50ºC 90ºC 100ºC 110ºC 120ºC 130ºC 140ºC

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