Flutec Perfluorocarbons
In the UK, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (later ICI) was also developing cobalt(III) fluoride technology during the war, prompted by the work in the US. The process was later commercialized by the Imperial Smelting Company (later ISC Chemicals) under the tradename Flutec at Avonmouth near Bristol. They were originally produced on the pilot plant, and so were designated PP1, PP2, PP3, etc. The designation has remained to this day.
ISC Chemicals become part of RTZ in 1973, and that part of the business was transferred to Rhone-Poulenc in 1988. The Flutec business went into a decline, due to a drop in its main application, vapor phase reflow soldering (used in surface-mount technology, and six years later the Flutec business was purchased by BNFL Fluorochemicals Ltd and transferred to Preston, Lancashire, where it has been developed in to several new applications, in particular in medicine. BNFL Fluorochemicals Ltd became F2 Chemicals Ltd in 1998.
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