AGC Inc. Announces Sustainable Fluoropolymer Manufacturing Process

AGC Inc. recently announced the company has developed an innovative process to manufacture fluoropolymers without the use of surfactants (hereinafter "the technology"). Using the technology, AGC reports that it aims to achieve a continuous and stable supply of fluoropolymers.

Some fluoropolymers have been conventionally manufactured through a method called emulsion polymerization using fluorinated surfactants as polymerization aids. In the past few years, there has been a growing demand for the development of manufacturing technologies not using fluorinated surfactants. However, some other currently developed technologies using non-fluorinated surfactants have some issues, such as the generation of fluorinated byproducts and inferior performance of products compared to those manufactured through conventional technologies.