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Big to Small and High-Volume to Quick Turn Fluoropolymer Coating If you are looking for custom fluoropolymer coatings for your applications—whether you are in medical biopharmaceutical, food processing, industrial chemical processing, require coating for electrical components, or for military purposes—it’s vital that you have a fluoropolymer coating applicator that can provide capabilities as diverse as your needs.

Topics: Fluoropolymer Coatings, PFOA and Fluoropolymer Coatings

It’s Not Part of the Process Anymore Here’s what you need to know about the use of PFOA in American Durafilm® products: it’s not in them. Plain and simple. In fact, PFOA was never in any of the tubing materials offered by American Durafilm, and it was removed from the films and coatings several years ago.

Topics: Fluoropolymer Coatings, PFOA and Fluoropolymer Coatings

American Durafilm Now Distributing Highly Functional Tedlar® Film It’s been around for 50 years. You see it every day. You drive by it in your car as you glance up to see the myriad advertisement signs flashing by. You may even be sitting on it … right now … in the subway. Or perhaps the sun is too bright on that flight you are taking, so you pull the Tedlar® shade down to ease the glare of the sun. Hospital air smells clean and stays sterile, in part, because of it. Accurate measurements of gas components have been possible because Tedlar® gas sampling bags were doing their job. If you’re a manufacturer and are reading this, you may already know some of the “everyday” uses of this vastly diverse film.

Topics: Tedlar® polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) film, tedlar film, tedlar

High-Performance Plastics in 3D It’s a process often taken for granted for something that has almost endless applications. Thermoforming involves shaping plastics into a variety of products. But you know that already. And you know it is a tried and true method for heating a sheet of plastic almost to its melting point, then shaping it with a form or a mold to create custom products for very specific requirements. The process itself utilizes vacuum to pull the plastic towards the mold or form, which is why it is also often referred to as vacuum forming.

Topics: High-Performance Plastics, Norton Films, Norton Fluoropolymer Films

Teflon® FEP, Teflon® PFA, and Tefzel® ETFE Options as Well! Your high-performance film product options just got even better! American Durafilm® already offers custom rewinding, slitting, and packaging services and can satisfy any converting request—with quick responses and fast lead times. Add lamination of high-performance films to that list, and your application choices have just increased.

Topics: Kapton Films, Kapton Film, Adhesive Lamination for High-Performance Films

The Diversity of Fluoropolymers What do ravioli and dog biscuits have in common? Well, nothing, really. But—to meet the need of their inherent forms and functions, they share some of the same requirements on the production line.

Topics: Fluropolymer Coatings, Mold Release

These Coatings Are So Good You Can Eat Off Them! When a fluoropolymer coating is FDA compliant, it means it can be used for food contact. Aside from that favorite frying pan you use every time you sauté your most delicious chicken dinner, the applications that fluoropolymer coatings are used for span far beyond the confines of your kitchen or culinary imagination.

Topics: Fluropolymer Coatings