PTFE is short for polytetrafluoroethylene, but PTFE as actually more commonly known as Teflon. Teflon is one of the many materials used in the construction of tubing. Have you ever wondered why it’s necessary to make tubing out of such a wide variety of materials? What’s the difference between all of these plastics with long names? The reason that there is a need for such a large number of different tube composition materials is the same reason that there are so many different kinds of tubing. Different tubes are used for different purposes, which means that a wide variety of tube composition materials is necessary to accommodate all of the different tube applications.
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