3M™ Dyneon™ Fluoroplastic THV (a polymer containing tetrafluoroethylene, hexafluoropropylene and vinylidene fluoride) provides a combination of performance advantages unmatched by any other melt processable fluorothermoplastic, offering new opportunities to make multi-layer hoses, tubing, film, sheet, seals and containers. These products are used in a variety of markets and applications such as automotive (low-permeation fuel systems), chemical processing industry, semiconductor, solar energy, polymer optical fiber and architectural and protective coatings.
3M™ Dyneon™ Fluoroplastic THV is characterized by the following features:
● Relatively low temperature processing with a wide processing window for:
- extrusion, coextrusion, injection molding and blow molding
- film laminating
- coating and compounding
● Unmatched flexibility relative to other fluorothermoplastics
● Chemical resistance to broad classes of chemicals such as inorganic and organic acids, halogen compounds, hydrocarbons, alcohols
● Excellent permeation resistance to hydrocarbon, „flex” fuels and other aggressive chemicals
● Exceptional optical clarity and transmittance, particularly in the UV and visible regions of the solar spectrum, plus a low index of refraction
● Easier to bond to many elastomers and plastics than other fluorothermoplastics; easily welds to itself
● E-beam curable with or without pro-rads
● Outdoor weatherability comparable to other fluorothermoplastics
● High limiting oxygen index: does not support combustion
