Thornton Cleveleys, England- Taconic International, a specialist in engineered products for the food, aerospace, automotive, chemical, medical, packaging, textile, and wireless communication industries, has selected VICOTE™ Coating as a key element in its new Tacmaster product range for food processing conveyor belts. This is exemplified by their flagship product Tacmaster 10 Blue. The Tacmaster product range is also available in black and brown and other colours upon request.

Taconic pioneered the manufacture of PTFE coated fabrics and other high-temperature/non-stick materials, and is today a leading supplier to the food processing industry. The company also supplies a wide range of coated materials, including tapes, fabrics and belts for a wide variety of industrial applications.

Taconic uses VICOTE Coating from Victrex, in its new Tacmaster range of food processing belts that are produced in master rolls and converted to required conveyor belt dimensions. These specially coated conveyor belts are used in aggressive food cooking environments where excellent wear, release and mechanical properties, and excellent temperature performance are required, such as in the pre-cooking of bacon, chicken, burgers, tortilla, pizza crusts and eggs. Building upon its existing expertise in the area of fluoropolymer coating formulations to meet these demanding requirements, Taconic is now incorporating VICOTE Coating to produce a new innovative coating system for their Tacmaster belts.

“By incorporating VICOTE Coating in our new food conveyor belts, we are able to provide our customers around the world, with increased wear and abrasion resistance, improved cut-through resistance, increased puncture and impact resistance as well as non-stick properties,” said Ian Molyneux, General Manager, IPD Europe, Taconic Industrial Products Division. “When you combine these properties with improved dimensional stability, resistance to oils and grease, and continuous temperature resistance up to 260°C, we are able to increase the belt's life by up to 40%, reducing both downtime and maintenance costs for our customers.

Ian Molyneux continued, “Our Tacmaster products are manufactured with our specially formulated PTFE coatings incorporating the VICOTE product. They are shipped to our customers as master log rolls in various widths, as cut pieces, or as finished conveyor belts. Our cooperation with Victrex has not only enabled us to rapidly expand our product line, but will also potentially improve and enhance our existing product lines to better meet the exacting requirements of our food processing industry customers.”

“Working together with Taconic on such an exciting project is very rewarding. They have basically innovated the way food belts are manufactured with the use of VICOTE Coatings. The Victrex team supported them with processing and test data, and the necessary product requirements to meet their market and manufacturing needs. Taconic then was able to create a new customized coating system. The whole process from initial discussion through product development and successful commercialization was completed in less than 12 months – that's fast!” says Andrew Storm, Leader of Victrex's Global Venture Group.


About Taconic
For over four decades, Taconic has been a leader in the development and manufacture of advanced engineered composite materials. Founded in 1961 by Lester T. Russell, the company now has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, and Korea and sales offices around the world. Consisting of two distinct divisions, Taconic provides innovative product solutions for the Industrial Products and Advanced Dielectric markets

By pioneering the manufacture of PTFE coated fabrics and other high-temperature/non-stick materials, Taconic has become a leading supplier to the food processing industry. They also supply a wide range of coated materials, including tapes, fabrics and belts for a wide variety of industrial applications. Taconic is a global manufacturer and marketer of engineered products for demanding specialty applications. These products serve the food, aerospace, automotive, chemical, medical, packaging, textile, and wireless communication industries, encapsulating a broad spectrum of glass & aramid fabric substrates with PTFE, and fluoropolymer-based materials. For more information please visit www.taconic-ipd.com


About Victrex
Victrex plc is the leading manufacturer of high performance materials, including VICTREX® PEEK™ polymer and VICOTE™ Coatings. Victrex materials are some the highest quality materials in the world that offers an exceptional combination of properties to help processors and end users reach new levels of cost savings, performance and differentiation.

Victrex's materials are used in applications in a variety of markets such as the industrial, aerospace, automotive, electronics, food processing, and medical segments. Invibio®, Victrex's biomaterials business, provides access to specialized products and services for medical device manufacturers.

The company is headquartered in the UK and has a joint venture with Mitsui Chemicals, Victrex-MC, Inc., in Japan. Victrex`s team of dedicated market development, sales, and technical professionals can be found working hand-in-hand with customers around the world assisting them with new application development and prototyping, product performance data and processing. For more information please visit http://www.victrex.com.

VICTREX® is a registered trademark of Victrex Manufacturing Limited, VICOTE™, PEEK™ and PEEK-HT™ are trademarks of Victrex plc.

For more information, contact Taconic at their Mullingar Ireland office at +353-44-9338300 or by fax at +353-44-9338390.