The food and drink industry needs chemically inert, exceptionally pure, high-performance materials that facilitate cleanliness, non-contamination, and easy release in valves, piping, and other standard fluid handling components. Fluoropolymers enable durable processing equipment, ensuring food freshness and pharmaceuticals purity as well as a high level of efficiency by preventing corrosion and facilitating cleaning.
As they are durable, fluoropolymers play an important role in extending the lifespan of a range of products, such as flexible plastic-based food packaging. Fluoropolymer coatings on flexible plastic-based food packaging can help keep food fresh, thereby reducing food waste and helping the economies achieve its sustainability goals. Benefits like increased lifetime of components, lower cleaning and maintenance costs, reducing failures and improving flow of process substances, higher production yields and quality from improved purity of process substances, health benefits and hygiene standards, lower levels and risk of exposure of workforce and environment to chemicals, preventing leaks, prolonged preservation of the product, combination of steam, heat, chemical and UV resistance enables efficient sterilization and wide medical applications makes them unrivalled materials of utmost importance.
