Over the last year, the industry has experienced more challenges than I have come across around my 3 decades experience. In the past I have seen sharp price increases, and I have experienced several shortages, and delivery problems resulting from plastic resin allocations coming from plastic resin companies. This is definitely the very first instance I have seen all these issues at one time.
PTFE Sheet (TFE) and Kynar are both on allocation.
Both of these resins are in short supply. The PTFE Sheet product PTFE (TFE) along with PVDF manufacturing requires a mineral called Fluorspar that's mined in Mongolia and China. The world need for this mineral has increased significantly, and the supply has tightened. PTFE materials have high temperature resistance, excellent chemical resistance and incredibly low co-efficient of friction (slippery) and is used throughout dozens of applications from non-stick fry griddles to ptfe tape for home use. This mineral is actually the essential raw material within the manufacturing of fluoropolymers, fluorolubricants and lots of refrigerants.This increase in demand mixed with general shortage of raw materials is responsible for a dramatic price increase (almost double within the last year), shortages, and we expect these two factors to continue in the near future.
When you are shopping around for a plastic sheet vendor you will additionally want to investigate the company that you are handling to see to it that they are going to be around for a long time. If you are most likely to be having a great deal of problems with your plastic sheet supply you are most likely to want to make sure that you are going to be able to rely on them to remain to give you with the high-grade item that you have involved anticipate, over the years.
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