Performance Solutions

What You Need for Next-Level Performance

The need for higher-performing products exists in every market, in every industry. Building codes are growing more stringent. Government agencies continue to pursue higher levels of sustainability. The customer and markets are always looking for the latest and greatest. For your product to keep pace, you need a partner you can count on.

Quanex has a long history of helping customers deliver high-performing products, based on material science, design and polymer expertise. No matter the ways in which you’re looking to improve your product, we’re able to develop a suitable performance solution. Our teams are continuously investigating new ways to enhance the look and performance of products used around the world every day, using optimal materials for your needs. Look to Quanex for solutions that can help you:

• Improve thermal performance of a product
• Minimize or eliminate air and water penetration
• Withstand intense weathering
• Improve impact resistance
• Provide water and water vapor management
• Provide electrical insulation
• Maximize the life of a product
• Enhance appearance and aesthetics

Engineered to Your Standards

Set Yourself Apart From the Competition

Product differentiation is the key to any successful business. Quanex’s highly skilled engineering department can design new components and tooling to exacting specifications, engage in rapid prototyping and pilot test new products—providing customers with the beginning-to-end support they need to bring new and innovative products to life.

Additionally, to ensure products meet and exceed customer and industry requirements, Quanex also operates a series of state-of-the-art laboratories with thermal chambers, SmartScopes, spectrophotometers and Xenon Arc devices with capabilities that include:

• Thermal testing
• Tensile strength
• Salt fog testing
• Water and air infiltration
• Vibration testing
• Life cycle analysis
• Weatherability