Common uses: Electrical applications in aircraft, robots, electrical machines, gaskets, pipes, filters, self-lubricating bearings, coating in pans, foil, surface coating in chemical equipment, electrical insulation material, etc.
Benefits
Restrictions
Technical data
Benefits
High chemical resistance.
Not attacked by acids, bases and most organic solvents.
Withstands up to + 260 ° C continuously.
Tough at low temperatures down to -160 ° C. • Lowest friction of all plastics.
Not degraded by UV radiation. • Not attacked by microorganisms.
Good electrical and dielectric properties.
Very low water absorption.
Restrictions
High melt viscosity makes the material difficult to work with.
Poor creep resistance.
High density relative to other plastics.
Attacked by molten alkali metals, fluorine gas, oxygen difluoride and chlorine trifluoride (except PTFE).
