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| | ALFA CHEMICALS APPOINTED UK AND IRELAND DISTRIBUTOR FOR DUPONT’S FLUOROPOLYMER ADDITIVES BUSINESS |
 | | With effect from February 2005, Alfa Chemicals Limited, a leading speciality chemical distributor, is the new distributor of DuPont fluoropolymer additives, including Zonyl® fluoroadditives and selected grades of Teflon® fluoropolymer PTFE powders and dispersions, in the UK and Ireland. |
 | | Fluoropolymers were discovered by DuPont scientist Roy Plunkett in 1938, and became marketed under the Teflon® brand in the early 1960s. |
 | | Teflon® is one of the most widely recognised brands in the world and carries with it a reputation for the highest purity, quality and high-performance within a wide range of applications and industries, including automotive, aerospace, food, pharmaceutical, chemical processing and semi-conductors. |
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