Kynar

Brand information

Product overview:

Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) resins and copolymers designed for extreme inertness in harsh environments, flame & smoke properties, weather resistance, durability, and ease of processing.
Arkema’s Kynar® PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) and flexible copolymers are world famous for their balance of easy-processing and tremendous resistance and durability. With manufacturing facilities in each of the major regional markets – North America, Europe, and Asia, we continue to invest in order to supply our customers globally while servicing them locally.

Extreme Properties

Kynar® fluoropolymers are specified by end-users across the world for their outstanding combination of properties:

• Outstanding resistance to sunlight/UV exposure
• Tremendous chemical resistance to a wide range of aggressive chemicals
• Radiation resistance
• Excellent burn characteristics / flame and smoke properties
• Easy processing on industry-standard equipment and easy post-processing such as welding and fabrication
• Extremely high purity for the most demanding applications
• Extremely high electrochemical stability
• Excellent abrasion resistance
• High temperature rating: RTI 150º C

A Broad Portfolio of Pellets, Powders, Latex Emulsions, Films:

• Kynar® Homopolymer Series (Both standard and high whiteness)
• Kynar Flex® Copolymer Series
• Kynar Flex® and Kynar® ADX Powder Coating Resins
• Kynar 500® and Kynar Aquatec® Construction Coating Resins (visit www.kynar500.com or www.kynaraquatec.com)
• Kynar® PGM TR Multilayer Films
• Kynar Flex®, Kynar ADS® II, and Kynar SL® II Solution Resins
• Compounds: Conductive, High Modulus, Pigmented, Low Shrink, Flame Retardant

Kynar® PVDF polymers are considered exceptionally easy fluoropolymers to process - requiring little in the way of specialized equipment. There is a very wide "processing window" (a wide difference between the melting temperature and the degradation temperature).

Kynar® PVDF resins for coatings:
Kynar® PVDF resin-based coatings offer long lasting performance in demanding architectural coating applications. Kynar® polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) resins are used by licensed industrial paint manufacturers in formulating hardy, long-lasting coatings.