During the last year, the industry has had more shortages than I have seen during my 3 decades experience. In the past I have seen sharp price increases, and I have witnessed several shortages, and delivery delays caused by resin allocations from resin suppliers. This is actually the first time I have seen all these issues at the same time.
Polytetraflouroethylene (TFE) and PVDF are both on allocation.
Both of these resins are in short supply. The PTFE - Polytetrafluoroethylene product PTFE (TFE) as well as Kynar manufacturing requires a mineral called Fluorspar that is mined in Mongolia and China. The world demand for this mineral has grown significantly, as well as supply has tightened. PTFE materials have high temperature resistance, excellent chemical resistance and really low co-efficient of friction (slick) and is utilized within dozens of applications from non-stick fry pans to ptfe tape for use at home. This particular mineral is actually a critical raw materials in the production of fluoropolymers, fluorolubricants and a lot of refrigerants.This increased demand bundled with general shortage of raw materials has caused a dramatic price increase (almost double over the last year), shortages, and we expect these two factors to stay in affect in the near future.
Saturday, June 12, 2021
What is causing the Teflon Products and PVDF long lead times
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