What caused the Teflon Products and PVDF extended delivery

Over the past year, the market has had more difficulties than I have come across around my 30 years experience. In the past I have seen sharp price increases, and I have seen several shortages, and delivery problems because of material allocations from plastic resin companies. This is actually the very first instance I have seen all these issues at one time.

Polytetraflouroethylene (TFE) and Kynar are both on allocation.

The two of these resins are in short supply. The  PTFE Sheet suppliers product PTFE (TFE) as well as Kynar  manufacturing requires a mineral called Fluorspar that is mined in Mongolia and China. The worldwide need for this mineral has increased significantly, as well as the supply has tightened. PTFE materials have high temperature resistance, excellent chemical resistance and really low co-efficient of friction (slippery) and is utilized within tons of purposes from non-stick fry cookware to ptfe tape for personal use. This specific mineral is the important raw materials in the manufacturing of fluoropolymers, fluorolubricants and several refrigerants.This increase in demand combined with general shortage of raw materials is responsible for a dramatic price increase (almost double during the last year), shortages, and we expect both these factors to stay in affect in the near future.

HDPE cutting board