At $75–$125 per pound, PEEK demands smart material management. Optimizing yield protects your margins and supports sustainable practices. Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG) is here to help you do both. MCG offers a full range of options to match your design needs and budget—from injection-molded near-net shapes to our Ketron™ Sterra™ recycled PEEK grades.

Start with Smarter Design

Wasted material is wasted money—especially with premium polymers like PEEK. Cutting from oversized stock drives up cost in two ways:

  1. You pay for material you don’t need
  2. You pay again to machine it away

Many shops stick to standard shapes for lower-cost plastics like polyolefins, polyoxymethylene, or nylon. But with high-performance polymers, better yield matters more. MCG’s wide range of Ketron™ custom and stock shapes make it easy to design smarter and save more.

Shape Options for Better Yield:

  • Custom-width and -length plates: Save when standard blanks cause poor yield
  • Custom-length rods: Cut longer parts without waste
  • Extruded tubes: Get thicker walls with better dimensional stability
  • Injection-molded tubes: Ideal for thin-walled parts under 10″ outer diameter
  • Spun tubes: Larger diameters and smaller minimum order quantities (MOQ) than extrusion
  • Injection-molded near-net shapes: Best for high-volume milled parts

Real-world Example: Big Wins with Smart Choices

One customer’s part started from a standard 2″ x 24″ x 48″ PEEK plate. Switching to a custom 2″ x 14″ x 32″ plate cut blank material costs by 50%.

Once the design was finalized, the process moved to an injection molded near-net shape.

  • $28k Initial tooling investment
  • 91% Reduction in material use
  • 85% Reduction in material costs
  • Machining time cut by 100 minutes per part


The result? Everyone won: The distributor gained margin, the machine shop boosted throughput, and the OEM slashed part cost.

Sustainable Choices that Pay Off

It’s easy to capture savings by optimizing yield on large PEEK jobs. Plus, don’t forget our Ketron™ Sterra™ recycled content grades. Each Sterra™ grade comes with a full lifecycle assessment (LCA) including a carbon footprint reduction, calculated using our CORACAL™ dashboard available on our MCAM Connect portal.

 

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