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One way to fight against this inflation is to procure early in order to maintain price for your customers longer. It is inevitable that there will be increases over time, but we can at least help the situation by holding stock for longer that we know will be used by our faithful clients. This adds risk to manufacturing, so there needs to be some commitment from the customer side as well to limit that risk as far as promises to continue buying for the lifecycle of the product.
Hygroscopy is described as an objects ability or characteristic to absorb/ give up moisture into its surrounding atmosphere. A great way to think of this is a tree. We all know that trees “suck up” co2 from the atmosphere and release oxygen back into it. Nylon plastic parts do the same with moisture based on the humidity of their environment. Nylon has great thermal and electrical insulating properties but the problem with nylon in professional industries is that it becomes brittle and susceptible to cracking under pressure when it is too dry. Many of the automated processes dealing with manufacturing …
