Fluoropolymer Blog

Teflon® is a registered trademark and a brand name owned by DuPont. Teflon® is not a chemical, but rather, represents a family of high-performance fluoropolymer based products that are used in a wide variety of industrial and consumer applications. The Teflon® brand has come to represent a variety of benefits to consumers including easy clean, nonstick, repellency and durability. Since the early 1960s, Teflon® brand non-stick coatings have been used on cookware. Although consumers may use the brand, Teflon®, as a generic term to refer to all non-stick cookware, the Teflon® brand refers only to certain non-stick coatings manufactured by DuPont and sold under the Teflon® brand name. The coating on non-stick cookware is made from a liquid "paint" which contains PTFE (polytetrafluoroethlyene) fluoropolymer and sometimes other fluoropolymers. The final cookware coating is a dried, durable non-stick material which delivers the easy clean and non-stick performance that you expect from your cookware coated with Teflon®

Teflon® has also become the common name used to refer to fluoropolymer tubing, of which there are several types, including PFA, PTFE, PVDF and FEP. In order to make this tubing, fluoropolymer resin is supplied in powdered form which is mixed, preformed, extruded into a paste, and then extruded again to form tubing. PTFE is the most flexible of all fluoropolymers offered. It has the broadest temperature range of any fluoropolymer and can resist highly corrosive liquids and gases even at elevated temperatures. The smooth surface finish and lowest coefficient of friction & lubricity make it ideal for bushing or bearing applications. PTFE’s translucent white color will vary naturally from lot to lot, however the quality and physical properties do not change.