High rate foam fluoropolymers

Get to Know Everflon+ High Rate Foam Fluoropolymers

Everflon+™ fluoropolymer foam resin was developed specifically for wire insulation in high data rate applications. Everflon+™ Foam Resin produces an insulation with a reduced dielectric constant, allowing for thinner insulation constructions. In addition, because this reduces dissipation factor, the resulting insulated wire generally has lower capacitance and attenuation.

Wire insulation produced with genuine Everflon+™ Foam Resin can achieve velocity factors (Vp) approaching 90%, whereas standard Everflon™ FEP insulated wire typically yields a 65%-70% (Vp). In addition, because of its good adhesion characteristics to the conductor, return losses are greatly improved.

Everflon+™ Foam Resin not only produces a superior high performance dielectric insulation in smaller high data rate applications but it also allows for miniaturization, weight savings and improved material usage rates.

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Everflon+™ Physical Foam Fluoropolymers Resin

Everflon+™ Physical Foam Resin reduce the dielectric constant of insulating cable, enable lightning-fast data transmission with minimal distortion, and facilitate the manufacture of lighter, smaller wires and cables.

Resin and processing requirements depend on cable design. Thicker wall constructions like coaxial RG cable use a resin with a lower melt flow rate (MFR) in conjunction with a higher void content that needs lower drawdown tooling. Thinner wall constructions like Category 6 and 10G-BASE-T cables require higher MFR resins used at a lower void content with higher drawdown tooling.

Features and Benefits

Everflon+™ Physical Foam Fluoropolymer Resin ensure that insulation adheres to copper wire, which leads to improved return loss and provides other characteristics common to fluoropolymer products. Wire insulation that uses Everflon+™ Physical Foam Fluoropolymer Resin achieve velocity factors approaching 85%.

Everflon+™ Chemical Foam Fluoropolymers Resin

Everflon+ chemically foamable fluoroplastic(FEP.PFA.ETFE) compounds enhance electrical performance, improve fire safety and extend material usage. And they foam at rates of 35% to 55% when produced on standard high-temperature extruders – without gas injection or nucleating concentrates.

Everflon+ fluoropolymer(FEP.PFA.ETFE) compounds were developed to insulate Category 5e, 6, 6e, 6A and 8 plenum cables, low-capacitance cables and coaxial cables. But they offer the same high-performance characteristics when used for crosswebs, tapes or cable fillers.

Everflon+ foamed fluoropastic(FEP.PFA.ETFE) pellets are UL recognized for plenum cable insulation (File No. QMTM2) and are especially suited for thin-wall insulation of 0.005″ (0.127 mm) to 0.015″ (0.381 mm). Thin-wall insulation previously was produced from solid FEP, but Everflon+ unique properties allow our customers to foam fluoropolymers in situations where it could not have been foamed in the past.

And because Everflon+ Foam fluoroplastic(FEP.PFA.ETFE) does not require gas injection, customers save the cost of purchasing and maintaining injection equipment.