America, Inc

Storage and Shipment. VDF or HFC-1132a is stored and shipped in gas cylinders or high pressure tube trailers without polymerization inhibitor and is placarded as flammable compressed gas. Terpenes or quinones can be added to inhibit polymerization. Elf Atochem North America, Inc. and Ausimont USA, Inc. supply VDE in the United States other producers are in Japan and Europe. 

Because of its excekent combination of properties, processibkity, and relatively low price compared to other fluoropolymers, PVDF has become the largest volume fluoropolymer after PTFE consumption in the United States has grown from zero in 1960 to about 6200 metric tons in 1991 (186). About 49% of the consumed volume is PVDF modified by copolymerization with 5—12-wt % HFP to enhance flexibkity. In 1992, Hst price for homopolymer powders was 15.32/kg, and for pekets 15.42/kg the reported market price was 14.09—14.22/kg (187). In the United States, almost ak PVDF is suppHed by Ausimont USA, Inc., Elf Atochem North America, Inc., and Solvay Polymers, Inc. Ausimont and Elf Atochem are producers Solvay is an importer of the resin. Smak amounts of resin are imported from Germany by Huls America, Inc, and from Japan by Kureha Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. PVDE producers and their trademarks are Hsted in Table 4. 

Elf Atochem North America, Inc. United States Kynar... 

Extrusion ofKjnarandKjnarFlexPolj(vinjlidene Fluoride) (PJCDF), Technical Data, Elf Atochem North America Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., Apr. 1990. 

StandardMethodsforSamplingandTestingGelatins, Gelatin Manufacturers Institute of America, Inc., New York, 1986. 

Marlotherm Heat Transfer Media For a Wide Range of Temperature, Huls America, Inc., Piscataway, N.J. 

DiaylPeroxides, Product Bulletin, Organic Peroxide Division, Atochem North America, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., July 1991. 

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