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Details to Remember About PTFE Rod:
This product is unacceptable with most common adhesives, there are adhesives on the marketplace that now do perform an excellent job, they are more expensive, are more labour intensive and are only sold by adhesive specialists. Another important element regarding PTFE Rod is the co-efficient of thermal expansion, this can result in high levels of thermal expansion as well as uneven levels which may cause distortion. PTFE Rod is also relatively soft which is an advantage which it is used as a seal but can be a disadvantage when being clamped in machinery.

History of PTFE:
PTFE was invented back in the late 1930's by an exceptional scientist called Roy Plunkett who was attempting to develop a refrigerant and by an almost accident created the formula for what we know today as Polytetrafluroethylene. A few years later PTFE was patented and a registered trade name was applied called Teflon®. By the mid to late 1940's, Teflon began to be commercially available and PTFE becomes the popular material known today.

How PTFE Rod is Made:
PTFE Rod is made buy substituting hydrogen with fluorine on polyethylene or by pressurising tetraflouroethylene monomer at the emulsion polymerisation stage.