Essential Chemistry for America

Fluorochemistries enable safer, faster, cleaner, and more affordable air travel for American consumers. Providing flame resistance and durability, they make planes less prone to corrosion and improve in-flight data transmission — lowering maintenance costs and improving reliability of commercial aircraft. Further, by reducing weight and lowering exhaust emissions, including both carbon and NOx gasses, fluorochemistries improve aircraft engine performance and enable enhanced fuel efficiency, delivering peace of mind and savings to American consumers.

As U.S. automakers continue to lead the charge in the electric vehicle transition, fluorochemistries are being used to increase car performance, boosting driver comfort and safety, and driving long-term sustainability within the auto industry. They are used in energy storage systems, engine efficiency, and emissions control, enabling vehicles to meet modern safety and fuel efficiency standards. Moreover, mobile air conditioning systems that utilize fluorochemistries lower the environmental impact potential of air conditioning in cars by more than 99% as compared to previousgenerations of refrigerants and can be reclaimed and reused, unlike most alternatives.

Semiconductors are essential components of the electronic devices that power our world. From consumer handheld electronics to smart household appliances to medical imaging and drug delivery systems and military weapons, communications, and satellite systems, we rely on semiconductors. Fluorochemistries are required technologies for the chip fabrication process. Semiconductor manufacturing would simply not exist without them. Fluorochemistries enable semiconductor manufacturers to maximize chip yields, improve processes, and maintain consistency in micro-designs.

Data centers, the backbone of modern society, require significant amounts of energy, water, land, and cooling, challenges that fluorochemistries are uniquely suited to address. By providing innovative products using two-phase immersion cooling for data centers, low global warming potential fluorochemistriesplay a critical role in powering the ongoing digital transformation and supporting next-generation computing applications. New and innovative immersion cooling solutions based on fluorochemistries can even reduce data center cooling energy consumption by more than 90% and nearly eliminate water use — offering energy-efficient cooling and reductions in operating costs. They can also enable up to a 60% reduction in physical data center footprints when compared to traditional air-cooling technology. Notably, immersion cooling solutions that leverage fluorochemistries are circular in nature and uniquely positioned to allow waste heat recovery that can serve nearby residential, office, and industrial facilities.

Fluorochemistries are utilized across our defense equipment and systems to provide our military with the best available technologies to protect American interests at home and abroad. From military aircraft to weapons systems to satellite and communications systems and gear that protects our servicemen and women, fluorochemistries are trusted because they are durable, efficient, versatile, reliable, and offer unmatched performance when it really matters. They are essential components across almost all major weapons and communications systems, including but not limited to fixed-wing aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, surface ships, submarines, missiles, radar systems, battle tanks, and assault vehicles. Notably, fluorochemistries are also used in thermal management for vital equipment electronics systems, such as those on submarines, ships, and vehicles, as well as specialty fluids for defense systems and insulation.

From solar panels and wind turbines to hydrogen production and rechargeable fuel cell batteries, fluorochemistries increase durability, lower maintenance costs, and boostefficiency across renewable energy applications. Importantly, fluorochemistries are pivotal for the rapid adoption of heat pumps — a key technology on which the energy transition relies and which, by some estimates, can reduce building GHG emissions by up to 50%. Ultimately, across all of these applications, fluorochemistries offer improved functionality and design flexibility, and facilitate sustainable and renewable energy installations in greater numbers and locations across the country. By increasing the lifetime of key component parts and technologies, they work to ensure that U.S. clean energy equipment is built to last.

Fluorochemistries are essential components of our health care systems, providing medical practitioners with the equipment they need to provide patients with top-of-the-line care. From guide wires, filters, pumps, ventilators, implants, and personal protective equipment, fluorochemistries make these devices more durable and effective, reducing the risk of equipment failures, infections, and unnecessary medical procedures. Critically, because medical supplies and vaccines must be preserved at specific temperature setpoints, the unparalleled performance and reliability of systems powered by fluorochemistries are vital for preserving these products and ensuring that they can safely reach Americans across the country. They are essential to the transport and stationary refrigeration systems that enable the distribution of pharmaceuticals and vaccines, including in areas where traditional cooling infrastructure does not exist.