What's the reason for the Teflon Products and Kynar long lead times
In the last year, the market has experienced more allocations 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 issues resulting from resin allocations coming from resin vendors. This is the very first time I have seen all these issues at the same time.
PTFE (TFE) and Kynar are both on allocation.
Both of these resins are in short supply. The PTFE Sheet product PTFE (TFE) and also PVDF manufacturing requires a mineral called Fluorspar that is mined in Mongolia and China. The world demand for this mineral has increased significantly, and the supply has tightened. PTFE materials have high temperature resistance, excellent chemical resistance and extremely low co-efficient of friction (slick) and is utilized within a lot of purposes from non-stick fry pans to ptfe tape for personal use. This particular mineral is actually the essential raw materials inside the production of fluoropolymers, fluorolubricants and quite a few refrigerants.This surge in demand linked with general shortage of raw materials has caused a dramatic price increase (almost double over the past year), shortages, and we expect both these factors to stay in affect in the near future.
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