TFA is the only manufacturer of TEFLON® brand PTFE staple fibers. TFA’s TEFLON® brand PTFE staple fibers offer superior performance in high temperature or chemically volatile applications for filtration felts. Felts made from TEFLON® brand PTFE staple are used in a broad range of dry and wet filtration applications and business machine parts. Filtration applications include incinerators, product collection, and catalyst recovery. TFA’s TELFON® brand PTFE staple fibers allow the design of filtration products which offer low pressure drop, PM 2.5 emissions compliance and great durability. TFA’s TEFLON® brand PTFE staple fibers have successfully been used for over thirty years to produce filtration products in the most challenging filtration applications. TFA has extensive knowledge in the filtration industry and our technical support team can provide a filtration solution for applications in the most severe filtration conditions. Additionally, TFA offers a variety of proprietary fiber blends that provide competitive solutions to difficult filtration applications.
- TFA TEFLON® PTFE staple fibers are available in 1.75, 3.5 and 6.7 denier per filament
- TFA TEFLON® PTFE brand staple fibers are made from DuPont Dispersion manufactured with Echelon® technology
- TFA manufactures all of our products with ISO 9001:2008 certification for our quality systems and ISO 14001:2004 certification for our environmental systems
- Fabrics made from TFA staple fibers have better abrasion properties than fabrics made from ePTFE yarns
- Fabrics made from TFA staple fibers can combined to provide lower pressure drop while meeting stringent PM 2.5 emissions than fabrics made with competitive fibers
- Fabrics made from TFA staple fibers tend to be tougher than fabrics made with ePTFE yarns as long as the cycle load does not exceed the tensile strength of our fibers