subject: Non-stick Coverings: Not Only Pans! [print this page] The non-stick covering, that now can be in plastic, non-stick aluminium, ceramics or other materials, whichever its destination may be, was born by accident: Roy Plunkett, in 1938, noticed that the inside part of a tetrafluoroethylene can resisted very well to the chemical agents. Since then, they started to see the possible uses of Teflon, which has been introduced in various fields.
The properties the plastic, aluminium and coverings of other materials are very appreciated for are many; talking about Teflon, for example, among its most appreciated qualities in the chemical industry theres the chemical inertia, thanks to which the object protected is safe from the chemical agents, apart from some of them like fused alkaline metals, the high pressured fluorine. But we cannot avoid nominating the insolubility in water and solvents, the resistance to fire, the electrical qualities, the superficial fluency and the non-stick property.
Moreover, if you use them in the productive machineries, we can talk about anti-usury coverings, because by covering the machinery you protect it from the use, so that youll only need to change periodically the covering without having to change the whole machinery. Thinking of the home use of the anti-friction coverings, instead, its clear to see how they limit the usage of fats, making cooking lighter. The view of the usage of this material from the domestic point of view could help you thinking how fundamental it is in some machineries, which are normally in contact with materials like glues, paints, food and others: all these are cases in which the non-stick coverings are fundamental to get a good result.
Among the materials used for this there are aluminium, plastic, ceramics, steel: they are resistant materials, ad each of them has a specific usage. Depending on the material with which it will enter in contact youll choose the right covering, sure that it will facilitate the production, increase the quality of the final product and allow a longer life to the machinery.
The anti-usage materials used for the industrial machineries in fact can be very useful to give them a longer life, mostly if the are in contact with chemical agents that, not finding materials able to resist, corrode and make the machinery unusable in a short time.
Would you like to see some example of the usage of Teflon? In the chemical industry, for example, the Teflon coverings are absolutely fundamental for the protection from the chemical agents, Teflon has no reaction to. In the electric industry it is used as an insulating material, and it is also used as an additive in the production of the guitar nuts, to reduce the friction between strings and nut.
Thinking of the non-stick and anti-usage coverings, hence, we should not only think about pans: industrial machineries for the production of glues, paints or food, electric insulators and guitars, coverings are part of our everydays life, much more than we imagine.
